Hi all:
Here are a few recent titles I thought would interest ARLIS
subscribers. Happy holidays!
David
William Pope.L
The Friendliest Black Artist in America
edited by Mark H. C. Bessire
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262025337
The artist William Pope.L, who teaches at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine,
has been producing some of the most original visual and performing art in
America for many years. But it was not until the Acting Chairman of the
National Endowment for the Arts overturned the recommendations of the NEA's
own advisory panel to support this publication and the exhibition it
accompanies that Pope.L became the subject of feature articles in the
nation's major newspapers. This book, which accompanies a nationally
touring exhibition of Pope.L's work, explores his impact on American art
and culture. It contains sections on practices, body, performance,
dialogue, consumption, and a selection of the artist's writings and a
chronology. The essays are by Mark H. C. Bessire, Suzanne Preston Blier, C.
Carr, Geoffrey Hendricks, Stuart Horodner, Lowery Stokes Sims, Kristine
Stiles, and Martha Wilson.
9 1/2 x 9 1/2, 200 pp., 125 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-02533-7
Couture Culture
A Study in Modern Art and Fashion
Nancy J. Troy
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262201402
In Couture Culture, Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion
were linked in the early twentieth century. Focusing on a leader of the
French fashion industry, Paul Poiret, Troy uncovers a logic of fashion
based on the tension between originality and reproduction that bears
directly on art historical issues of the period. This tension lies at the
heart of haute couture, which, although designed for the wealthy, was also
intended to be adapted for sale in department stores and other clothing
outlets that catered to a broader consumer market. Troy examines the
relationships between elite and popular culture, the professional theater
and the fashion show, as well as the presumed polarity between Orientalist
and classical sensibilities. She shows how Poiret and other designers
patronized the arts and presented themselves as artists not only to sell
their individual dresses to wealthy clients but also to promote the mass
production of their designs. The contradictions she uncovers suggest
surprising parallels with the readymades and fashion-related work of Marcel
Duchamp, who explored the questions of originality and authenticity raised
by couture culture during the 1910s and 1920s.
Nancy J. Troy is Chair of the Art History Department at the University of
Southern California. She is the coeditor of Architecture and Cubism (MIT
Press, 1997).
7 x 9, 408 pp., 150 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-20140-2
Eva Hesse
edited by Mignon Nixon
Eva Hesse's distinctive process-based art exerted a powerful influence on
minimalist artists of the 1960s and continues to inspire artists today.
Using industrial materials such as latex and fiberglass, she exploited
their flexibility to produce works with an unsettling psychic and corporeal
resonance. This book focuses on the body of criticism that has developed
since the last major retrospective of Hesse's work, at the Yale University
Art Gallery in 1992. Eva Hesse contains a 1970 interview by Cindy Nemser, a
discussion between Mel Bochner and Joan Simon, and essays by Briony Fer,
Rosalind Krauss, Mignon Nixon, and Anne M. Wagner.
Mignon Nixon is Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and an
editor of October.
October Files
6 x 9, 232 pp., 60 illus., paper ISBN 0-262-64049-X, cloth ISBN 0-262-14080-2
David Weininger
Associate Publicist
MIT Press
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Cambridge, MA 02142
617.253.2079
617.253.1709 fax
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