Hannah Wilke

ISBN: 9783791339726

出版社: Prestel USA

出版年: 2010-5-20

页数: 176

定价: USD 49.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

The first monograph on an artist whose
provocative and ultimately deeply moving
work played an essential part in women s
transformation of the art world. Hannah Wilke s artwork, like her life, frames a heroic story
about formal invention and social activism, personal loyalties
and individual freedom, and, above all, breathtaking risk. A
defining presence in the emerging community of women
artists in the 1960s and 70s, Wilke developed a unique and
controversial visual language in response to her own and
women s experience. An unapologetic individualist, she
celebrated her relationships with men as well as women and
frankly explored the pleasures of sexuality.
Using a wide range of nontraditional mediums, including latex
and chewing gum as well as photography and film, she
irreverently paid tribute to predecessors from Marcel
Duchamp to David Smith. Focusing on the body as instrument
and object of visual expression, Wilke made her art an
unremitting self-exploration without false modesty (when
her naked body was an uncomplicated delight to behold) or
shame (when it was mercilessly blighted by cancer). Wilke s
art is inseparable from Wilke the person bold, sometimes
outrageous, and, ultimately, heartbreakingly courageous.