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Rene Yung: The Opacity of Dreams [Perspectives
99]
Yung's work examines the complexities inherent in the
relationship between culture and identity. For this exhibition,
the San Francisco-based artist and writer created an installation
for the Perspectives gallery of the Museum that explored these
issues as seen through her personal view as a Chinese native
living under British colonial rule in Hong Kong. Includes an
essay by Alexandra Irvine; selected documentation on the artist’s
career.
1996. 12 pages, 7 black-and-white reproductions. No ISBN
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Andrea Zittel: Critical Space
Andrea Zittel: Critical Space accompanies the first solo museum exhibition of Zittel’s work in North America. One of the most influential American artists to emerge in the last 15 years, Zittel investigates contemporary life in Western societies. Her three-dimensional work draws on architecture and geography to explore the psychological, biological, and economic aspects of domestic and urban existence. Zittel researches, designs, and models her own domestic settings that serve as test cases for her experimental living structures. Her home environments and handcrafted “uniforms,” produced under the name “A–Z Administrative Services,” emphasize the ways in which personal needs such as security, self-empowerment, intimacy, and comfort are fulfilled. Her recent work, developed at A–Z West, her desert studio outside Los Angeles, alters prevailing conceptions in art and culture about the desert environment, including myths and stereotypes of the frontier, autonomy, and freedom. The publication is the most comprehensive on the artist’s work to date and focuses on her sculpture, environmental work, clothing designs, and installations—including her Living Units and Comfort Units, collapsing living stations that challenge ideas about personal, professional and domestic space; the complete line of her handmade clothing series Uniforms; and new work from A–Z West. Co-published by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and Prestel Verlag, it includes essays by Paola Morsiani, Trevor Smith, Cornelia Butler, and Robert Cook; an interview with the artist by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley; texts by the artist; and documentation on the artist’s career.
2005. 272 pages. Hardcover. 288 color and 26 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN 3-7913-3397-6. $39.99 |
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