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Pope.L : Showing Up to Withhold / The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Author.
- The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pope.L, 1955-2023--Exhibitions.
- Pope.L.
- Art, American--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Art, American.
- Installations (Art)--Exhibitions.
- Installations (Art).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.) : 150 color plates
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Iconoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically. Working in a range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and writing, Pope.L pokes fun at and interrogates American society’s pretenses, the bankruptcy of contemporary mores, and the resulting repercussions for a civil society. Other favorite Pope.L targets are squeamishness about the human body and the very possibility of making meaning through art and its display. Published to accompany his wonderfully inscrutable exhibition Forlesen at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Pope.L: Showing Up to Withhold is simultaneously an artist’s book and a monograph. In addition to reproductions of a number of his most recent artworks, it includes images of significant works from the past decade, and presents a forum for reflection and analysis on art making today with contributions by renowned critics and scholars, including Lawrie Balfour, Nick Bastis, Lauren Berlant, and K. Silem Mohammad.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- The Balloon Inside the Body
- REPRODUCING DU BOIS AND OTHER CRAZY IDEAS
- Interference in Pope.L's Skin Set Drawings
- Showing Up To Withhold: Pope.L's Deadpan Aesthetic
- Interview
- Acknowledgments
- Forlesen Catalog
- Authors
- Born 1955, Newark, New Jersey
- Table of Con—Tents
- Image Credits
- Colophon
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Jan 2021)
- ISBN:
- 9780226200231
- 022620023X
- OCLC:
- 1102477233
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