Louise Lawler / edited by Helen Molesworth with Taylor Walsh ; essays and interviews by Andrea Fraser, Kate Linker, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler, Bruce Hainley, George Baker, Rosalyn Deutsche, Helen Molesworth, and Stephen Melville.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Molesworth, Helen, 1966- editor.

Series:

October files ; 14.

October files ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawler, Louise--Criticism and interpretation.

Lawler, Louise.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

Summary:

Louise Lawler has devoted her art practice to investigating the life cycle of art objects. Her photographs depict art in the collector's home, the museum, the auction house, and the commercial gallery, on loading docks, and in storage closets. Her work offers a sustained meditation on the strategies of display that shape art's reception and distribution. The cumulative effect of Lawler's photographs is a silent insistence that context is the primary shaper of art's meaning. Informed by feminism and institutional critique, Lawler's witty, poignant, and trenchant photos frequently pay attention to a host of overlooked details-almost Freudian slips--that ineffably and tacitly shore up what we conventionally think of as art's "power." This book includes the earliest published text on Lawler's work; an examination of her ephemera (Lawler produced, among other things, matchbooks and paperweights); a rare interview with the artist, conducted by Douglas Crimp; a conversation between George Baker and Andrea Fraser on Lawler's work; and essays by writers including Rosalind Krauss, Rosalyn Deutsche, and Helen Molesworth, the volume's editor. The book traces the changing reception of Lawler's work from early preoccupations with appropriation to later discussions of affect. Book jacket.

Contents:

In and Out of Place (1985) / Andrea Fraser Fraser, Andrea 1

Rites of Exchange (1986) / Kate Linker Linker, Kate 15

Louise Lawler: Souvenir Memories (1996) / Rosalind Krauss Krauss, Rosalind 23

Prominence Given, Authority Taken (2001) / Douglas Crimp Crimp, Douglas, Louise Lawler Lawler, Louise 33

Mata Hari Takes a Picture (2004) / Bruce Hainley Hainley, Bruce 49

Displacement and Condensation: A Conversation on the Work of Louise Lawler (2004) / George Baker Baker, George, Andrea Fraser Fraser, Andrea 65

Louise Lawler's Rude Museum (2006) / Rosalyn Deutsche Deutsche, Rosalyn 99

Louise Lawler: Just the Facts (2006) / Helen Molesworth Molesworth, Helen 119

A Thought of Photography (2007) / Stephen Melville Melville, Stephen 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262018810

9780262018814

9780262518352

026251835X

OCLC:

802103253

Publisher Number:

99955001005