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25 women : essays on their art / Dave Hickey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: 193 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226333151
  • 0226333159
Other title:
  • Twenty-five women
Subject(s):
Contents:
A ladies' man : introduction -- Alexis Smith : my pal Alex -- Joan Mitchell : epigramata -- Lynda Benglis : fire on the water -- Vija Celmins : the path itself -- Pia Fries : the remains of today -- Fiona Banner : the beauty of our weapons -- Sarah Charlesworth : embracing the beast -- Mary Heilman : surfing on acid -- Jennifer Steinkamp : breathing in the world -- Michelle Fierro : beauty marks -- Bridget Riley : not knowing -- Bridget Riley II : for Americans -- Elizabeth Murray : dancing in the dark -- Karen Carson : sophisticate -- Ann Hamilton : thinking things through -- Vanessa Beecroft : painted ladies -- Roni Horn : she resembles herself -- Fiona Rae : good after the good is gone -- Barbara Bloom : Barbara blooms -- Sharon Ellis : modest ecstasy -- Hung Liu : the polity of immigrants -- Teresita Fernández : tropical scholarship -- Nancy Rubins : the rapture and the tsunami -- Elizabeth Peyton : at the prince's chateau.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 704.042 H628 Available 33111008347391
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging." Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer." Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero." There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey--and a new book of his writing is an event.

25 Women will not disappoint. The book collects Hickey's best and most important writing about female artists from the past twenty years. But this is far more than a compilation: Hickey has revised each essay, bringing them up to date and drawing out common themes. Written in Hickey's trademark style--accessible, witty, and powerfully illuminating-- 25 Women analyzes the work of Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley, Fiona Rae, Lynda Benglis, Karen Carson, and many others. Hickey discusses their work as work, bringing politics and gender into the discussion only where it seems warranted by the art itself. The resulting book is not only a deep engagement with some of the most influential and innovative contemporary artists, but also a reflection on the life and role of the critic: the decisions, judgments, politics, and ethics that critics negotiate throughout their careers in the art world.

Always engaging, often controversial, and never dull, Dave Hickey is a writer who gets people excited--and talking--about art. 25 Women will thrill his many fans, and make him plenty of new ones.

A ladies' man : introduction -- Alexis Smith : my pal Alex -- Joan Mitchell : epigramata -- Lynda Benglis : fire on the water -- Vija Celmins : the path itself -- Pia Fries : the remains of today -- Fiona Banner : the beauty of our weapons -- Sarah Charlesworth : embracing the beast -- Mary Heilman : surfing on acid -- Jennifer Steinkamp : breathing in the world -- Michelle Fierro : beauty marks -- Bridget Riley : not knowing -- Bridget Riley II : for Americans -- Elizabeth Murray : dancing in the dark -- Karen Carson : sophisticate -- Ann Hamilton : thinking things through -- Vanessa Beecroft : painted ladies -- Roni Horn : she resembles herself -- Fiona Rae : good after the good is gone -- Barbara Bloom : Barbara blooms -- Sharon Ellis : modest ecstasy -- Hung Liu : the polity of immigrants -- Teresita Fernández : tropical scholarship -- Nancy Rubins : the rapture and the tsunami -- Elizabeth Peyton : at the prince's chateau.

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