Lynda Benglis

Beyond Process

Susan Richmond (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-29006-8 (ISBN)

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In four decades of abstract art practice, Lynda Benglis has not merely challenged the status quo. She has tied it in knots, melted it down and poured it across the floor, cast it in glass, clay and bronze. Daring and sometimes outrageous, her intense and provocative practice has produced some of the most iconic pieces of art from the late twentieth century. Richmond gives serious critical attention to work often dismissed as trivial and rootless, recovering the themes that link the different phases of the artist's quest to capture the 'frozen gesture'. Whether challenging popular tastes and definitions of art with her 1970s abstract knotwork or mocking puritanical aesthetics of gender with her colourful latex pourings and their allusions to corporeal topographies, Benglis never failed to provoke. Her sculptures commemorate and celebrate the processes of creation themselves, combining architectonic abstraction and feminized sensuality in a haunting, visceral theme of the strangeness of the body that runs through all her experiments in glass, video, metals, ceramics, gold leaf, paper and plastics.
Lynda Benglis: Beyond Process examines in depth the work and critical neglect of an artist who, perhaps more than any of her contemporaries, changed the face of American art in the 1960s and 1970s, and continues to fetishise, provoke and demand your attention.

Susan Richmond is Assistant Professor in Art History at Georgia State University.

Introduction
1. Boundless Forms and Continuous Imagery
2. Flesh and Physicality
3. Video Input and Output
4. Questioning Taste
5. Iterations and Expansions

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	65 bw integrated, 16pp colour plates
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 232 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-350-29006-8 / 1350290068
ISBN-13	978-1-350-29006-8 / 9781350290068
Zustand	Neuware