Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Subtitle: maintenance art
By: Patricia C. Phillips ; with Tom Finkelpearl, Larissa Harris, and Lucy R. Lippard
Contributors: Finkelpearl, Tom, author; Harris, Larissa, author; Lippard, Lucy R., author; Queens Museum of Art
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9783791355382
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: "The work of Mierle Laderman Ukeles bridges feminism, environmentalism, and participatory art practice. This first comprehensive book on the influential artist explores her legendary tenure as artist-in-residence at New York City's Department of Sanitation, which paved the way for similar "embedded artists" in government and community organizations. Essays, interviews, and striking illustrations offer important perspectives on an artist who has transformed our ideas about the feminist, urban, ecological, and resilient aspects of artistic experience. Whether it's her groundbreaking "Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!," which decries the separation, especially for women, between art on the one hand and caring for family, city, and planet on the other; or "The Social Mirror," in which she covered a New York City Department of Sanitation truck entirely in mirrored glass-Ukeles's body of work includes public art installations, exhibitions, and performances around the world, frequently created in collaboration with sanitation and municipal workers, museum visitors, and the public"--
Notes: "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art, Queens Museum, New York, September 18, 2016-February 19, 2017."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The work we do  -- Laura Raicovich; title: Ukeles at the Queens Museum  -- Larissa Harris; title: Never done: women's work by Mierle Laderman Ukeles  -- Lucy R. Lippard; title: Making necessity art: collisions of maintenance and freedom  -- Patricia C. Phillips; title: Interviews with New York City Department of Sanitation Commissioners -- Tom Finkelpearl with Norman Steisel, Brendan Sexton, John Doherty, and Kathryn Garcia-- Artist's writings-- Selected work history /-- Patricia C. Phillips-- Additional artworks /-- Patricia C. Phillips.