Leigh Bowery
A deep dive into the practice of performance artist Leigh Bowery that reveals the fullness of his extravagant range. Explores how his performative costuming and live art have influenced visual culture and the expanded field of performance studies as well as fashion. With a Foreword from Boy George. 50 illus. Read the foreword and introduction here Read an interview with Sofia Vranou
Drawings in Pen & Pencil From D羹rer's Day to Ours, With Notes and Appreciations
Mothering Myths
A comprehensive, intersectional and transhistorical meditation on depictions of motherhood in art, from the Middle Ages to todayPublished with Centraal Museum, Utrecht and Nest, The Hague. Rooted in the visual arts, this book gathers a multitude of voices on the theme of motherhood. Though central to the core of all life, the topic of motherhood has long been relegated to the private domain. Within the art world, depictions of motherhood have also been fraught. From the Middle Ages to the 20th century, Mary was depicted as the "primal mother." Mothers were idealized in Western art, often as women who sacrifice themselves for the good of their children. Moreover, these idealized depictions were usually made by men. In modern and contemporary art, motherhood has been considered trivial and insignificant, not a subject for great art. Artist Lise Halle Baggesen, in her extensive art project Mothernism, describes a "mother-shaped hole" a black hole in the history of art when it comes to the depiction of maternal care. To this day, that clich矇 is still largely transmitted to female artists in art school. Young women artists often receive the message that they should not make "womb art" and that motherhood is not an interesting theme for good art. As an artist with a womb, you are often told to choose between artistry and motherhood because both require a full commitment which would make them incompatible.Following the format of the previously published On the Necessity of Gardening, Mothering Myths starts from the same base: an abecedary intersected by longer essays. The abecedarium gathers fragments of shorter texts that together offer a layered and wide-ranging perspective on the meaning of motherhood, including selections by Tracey Emin, Paul B. Preciado, Sheila Heti, Angela Davis, Simone de Beauvoir, Anne Sexton, Louise Bourgeois, Julie Phillips, Hettie Judah, Maggie Nelson, Linda Nochlin, Susan Griffin, Silvia Federici, Sin矇ad Gleeson, James Baldwin, Nick Cave, Audre Lorde, ?lisabeth Badinter, Sarah Jaffe, Ocean Vuong, Elena Ferrante, Jane Lazarre, Torrey Peters and Rachel Cusk.This book was published in conjunction with Centraal Museum, Utrecht/Nest, The Hague.
Drawings in Pen & Pencil From D羹rer's Day to Ours, With Notes and Appreciations
Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion
Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion uses architectural terracottas as a lens for examining the changing landscape of central Italy during the period of Roman military expansion, and for asking how local communities reacted to this new political reality. It emphasizes the role of local networks and exchange in the creation of communal identity, as well as the power of visual expression in the formulation and promotion of local history. Through detailed analyses of temple terracottas, Sophie Crawford-Brown sheds new light on 'Romanization' and colonization processes between the 3rd and 1st centuries BCE. She investigates the interactions between colonies and indigenous communities, asking why conquerors might visually emulate the conquered, and what this can mean for power relations in colonial situations. Finally, Crawford-Brown explores the role of objects in creating cultural memory and the intensity of our need for collective history-even when that 'history' has been largely invented.
