Jessica Stockholder

by Castoriadis, Cornelius; Cooke, Lynne; Jaynes, Julian

• ISBN13: 9780714834061
• ISBN10: 0714834068
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-19
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Through the poetic clash of everyday materials, diverse surfaces, pop colors and patterns galore, Jessica Stockholder has achieved an aesthetic that is at once hot pink, wooly, artificial and quilted. Somewhere in between assemblage and painting, her three-dimensional installations and reliefs violently juxtapose the everyday with the strange, the banal with the familiar, opposites with similarities, the artificial with the natural, kitsch with class, glitz with frumpiness. Found objects from flea markets sit atop mass products from department stores, the whole a whirlwind of narrative suggestion and abstract color and form. This volume features documentation of one of Stockholder's temporary installations as well as many reproductions of her studio works and drawings.

Author Biography

Barry Schwabsky is an art critic and poet living in London. He contributed to Phaidon's Vitamin P (2002) and is a regular contributor to  Artforum and numerous other art journals. His books include The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (1997), and Opera: Poems 1981-2002 (2003). 

Lynne Tillman is an art critic and writer of fiction whose books include No Lease on Life (1999) and This is Not It (2002). A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Tillman has collaborated often with artists and writes regularly on art and culture.

Lynne Cooke has been curator at Dia Art Foundation since 1991. She co-curated the 1991 Carnegie International and was Artistic Director of the 1996 Sydney Biennale. She is a lecturer at Yale University and is on the faculty for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Table of Contents

Interview with Jessica Stockholder	p. 6
The Magic of Sobriety	p. 42
A Suite for ... Three Oranges	p. 80
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (extract), 1976	p. 92
The Imaginary Institution of Society (extract), 1987	p. 98
It's Not Over 'til the Fat Lady Sings, 1987	p. 106
The State of Things, Interview with Robert Nickas, 1990	p. 110
Interview with Klaus Ottmann, 1991	p. 116
Interview with Stephen Westfall, 1992	p. 120
Parallel Parking, 1992	p. 140
Figure Ground Relations, 1993	p. 144
Chronology	p. 148
Bibliography	p. 159
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