All the things I lost in the flood
Subtitle: essays on pictures, language, and code
By: Laurie Anderson
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780847860555
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Multimedia (Art); Modern Arts; Women artists; Catalogs; American Art; Performance art; Women musicians; Artists; Art; Philosophy
Description: An icon of performance art and the indie-music world, this is the first book on the artist's full career to date, as curated by the artist herself.  Laurie Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, and she is as prolific as she is inventive. She is a musician, performance artist, composer, fiction writer, and filmmaker (her most recent foray, Heart of a Dog, was lauded as an "experimental marvel" by the Los Angeles Times). Anderson moves seamlessly between the music world and the fine-art world while maintaining her stronghold in both.  A true polymath, her interest in new media made her an early pioneer of harnessing technology for artistic purposes long before the technology boom of the last ten years.  Regardless of the medium, however, it is exploration of language (and how it seeps into the image) and storytelling that is her métier.  A few years ago, Anderson began poring through her extensive archive of nearly forty years of work, which includes scores of documentation, notebooks, and sketchbooks.  In the process, she rediscovered important work and looked at well-known projects with a new lens. In this landmark volume, the artist brings together the most comprehensive collection of her artwork to date, some of which has never before been seen or published.  Spanning drawing, multimedia installations, performance, and new projects using augmented reality, the extensive volume traverses four decades of her groundbreaking art.  Each chapter includes commentary written by Anderson herself, offering an intimate understanding of her work through the artist's own words.--Amazon
Table of contents: title: Out on the ice.  AS: if ; Duets on ice ; The lake; title: This must be the place.  United States, Hidden inside mountains ; Chalkroom; title: Talking statues.  At the shrink's ; Dal Vivo ; Habeas corpus; title: Made of light.  Some performances from the 1970s ; Light devices ; Stories from the nerve Bible ; Delusion ; Sidewalk; title: This is your captain.  Narrators ; Clones ; Fenway ; Dearreader ; Songs and stories from Moby Dick; title: Speak my language.  Talking instruments, Talking and singing ; Touring ; Concerts for dogs; title: From the air.  Artist-in-residence at NASA ; From the air ; Aloft; title: Time to go.  Calendars ; Diaries ; Hearts of a dog ; Dreams ; The withness of the body.