Uta Barth

by Higgs, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780714841533
• ISBN10: 0714841536
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Barth works in extended series over a number of years. These have genericitles which reveal the rationale behind her work. "Ground", used since 1994,xplores backgrounds without the figures normally associated with pictorialomposition. "Field", the title for many images of urban and naturalnvironments since 1995, suggests an environment freed of its limits, andlso recalls a term used in painting, such as "colour field". "Nowhere Near", title used since 1999, suggests the movement in and out of focus, conveyingoth distance and closeness, that characterizes Barth's work. It alsouggests the "in-between" place that is evoked by these extraordinary imageshat take us momentarily outside our habitual perception of the things arounds.

Author Biography

Pamela M Lee is Associate Professor of Art History at Stanford University, California, and author of Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (2000) and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (2004), both published by MIT Press. Her writings have appeared in art journals such as October, Artforum and Parkett.

Matthew Higgs is a British artist, writer and curator now based in New York, where he is Curator and Director of White Columns. Some of the exhibitions he has organized include 'The Early Show', White Columns (2006); 'To Whom It May Concern', CCA Wattis Instute for the Arts, San Francisco (2002); 'Protest & Survive', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2000) and 'British Art Show 5', which toured the UK in 2000.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe is Chair of the MFA programme at the Art Center, Pasadena, and has contributed to such journals as Bomb, Critical Inquiry and Parkett. His books include Beyond Piety (1995), Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime (2000) and Frank Gehry: The City and Music (with Frank Gehry, 2001).