Art Life: Selected Writings 1991-2005

by Rinder, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780974364827
• ISBN10: 0974364827
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-31
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Entertaining, lyrical and informative, Art Lifeis a selection of essays by well-known contemporary art curator Lawrence Rinder, all written since 1991. Rinder's work is distinguished by a concern for art's role in reflecting and shaping daily life. Informed by history, philosophy and popular culture, these essays provide keys to understanding a broad range of contemporary practices--from painting and drawing to net art and video installation. In each of these texts, Rinder muses on how the intersection of material, image and idea creates meaning in some of the most compelling artworks of the past few decades. Among the many artists discussed are Luc Tuymans, Sophie Calle, Martin Creed, Ara Peterson, Jim Drain, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Lombardi, Jack Smith and Irit Batsry. All of the essays in Art Lifeare unified by Rinder's clear writing style--seamlessly interspersed with a selection of images--and his consistent engagement with the experience of art and art's relevance to our daily lives. Ideal for scholars and students alike.

Author Biography

Lawrence Rinder is Dean of Graduate Studies at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Bill Arning
Introduction	3	(4)
Thinking and Doing	7	(4)
Sophie Calle and the Practice of Doubt	11	(10)
Jochen Gerz: The Berkeley Oracle	21	(6)
Knowledge of Higher Worlds: Rudolf Steiner's Blackboard Drawings	27	(10)
Rosie Lee Tompkins, Really	37	(8)
Anywhere Out of the World: The Photography of Jack Smith	45	(12)
In a Different Light	57	(8)
Fort Thunder, Forcefield and the New York Art World	65	(10)
Foes and Friendsters: The Drawings of Mark Lombardi	75	(6)
Tuymans's Terror	81	(10)
Louise Bourgeois: Drawings	91	(10)
Return from Exile: The Art of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha	101	(16)
Conceptualism at the Millennium	117	(10)
Beauty and Theory of Beauty: Irit Batsry's Set	127	(10)
Kevin Larmon: Painting Sleep, Painting Seduction	137	(6)
In Memory of Samuel Mockbee	143	(4)
Avery Preesman: Boerenlucht	147