Art history, after Sherrie Levine
By: Howard Singerman
Contributors: Levine, Sherrie
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780520267213; 9780520267220
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This book examines the career of the New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans" -- taken not from life but from Evans's famous Depression-era documents of rural Alabama -- became central examples in the 1980s theorizing of postmodernism in the visual arts." -- Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pictures; title: Photographs; title: Paintings; title: Endgame; title: Sculptures; title: Counting.