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Suzanne Lacy : we are here

Title

Suzanne Lacy : we are here / Suzanne Lacy ; edited by Rudolf Frieling, Lucía Sanromán, and Dominic Willsdon ; with contributions by Jessica D. Brier, Christa Cesario, Lucia Fabio, Taylor Shoolery, and Tanya Zimbardo.

Author

Lacy, Suzanne,

Publication

[San Francisco, California] : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : DelMonico Books-Prestel, [2019]
©2019

Details

Additional Authors

Description

267 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), photographs, portraits, facsimiles, plans; 29 cm

Summary

"Over more than four decades the genre-defying art of Suzanne Lacy has taken multiple forms, spanning performance, sculpture and video installations, and photography. Organizing public encounters that emphasize intensive community dialogue and collaborative choreography, Lacy has explored many political and social contexts that remain deeply relevant--including race, class, and gender equity; ageism; and violence against women. This engaging and immersive record of Lacy's career is anchored by an extensively illustrated survey of selected works, loosely arranged chronologically in chapters that group related projects and illuminate their core themes and approaches. Featuring photographs, stills, ephemera, and other primary documentation, this section incorporates a selection of reprinted texts and first-person accounts by Lacy's collaborators. A series of essays examine Lacy's use of narrative and dialogue, explore the aesthetic language and use of form in her projects, and consider the questions posed by rethinkings of her work. Extensive, penetrating, and visually compelling, this long-awaited monograph documents the bold career of an artist whose profound attentiveness to social dynamics, politics, and context continues to provoke and inspire today."
The book sheds light on the groundbreaking career of Suzanne Lacy, an artist, writer, and educator whose participatory, socially engaged performances helped define social practice art and continue to resonate with many of the most pressing issues in American culture. Over the past five decades the genre-defying art of Suzanne Lacy has taken multiple forms, spanning performance, sculpture and video installations, and photography. Organizing public encounters that emphasize intensive community dialogue and collaborative choreography, Lacy has explored many political and social contexts that remain deeply relevant--including race, class, and gender equity; ageism; and violence against women. This record of Lacy's career is anchored by an extensively illustrated survey of selected works that groups related projects and illuminates their core themes and approaches. Featuring photographs, stills, ephemera, and other primary documentation, this section incorporates a selection of reprinted texts and newly commissioned first-person accounts by Lacy's collaborators, a group that includes critics and artists such as Judy Chicago, Allan Kaprow, Andrea Bowers, Moira Roth, and Lucy Lippard. Extensive, penetrating, and visually compelling, this long-awaited monograph documents the bold career of an artist whose profound attentiveness to social dynamics, politics, and context continues to provoke and inspire today.

Alternative Title

We are here

Subject

Art and society > California > 20th century > Exhibitions
Art and society > California > 21st century > Exhibitions
Art, American > Political aspects > California > 20th century > Exhibitions
Art, American > Political aspects > California > 21st century > Exhibitions
Feminism and art > California > 20th century > Exhibitions
Feminism and art > California > 21st century > Exhibitions
Feminism in art > Exhibitions
Lacy, Suzanne > Criticism and interpretation
Lacy, Suzanne > Exhibitions
Lacy, Suzanne > Themes, motives
Performance art > California > 20th century > Exhibitions
Performance art > California > 21st century > Exhibitions
Politics in art > Exhibitions
Rape in art > Exhibitions
Women artists > California > 20th century > Exhibitions
Women artists > California > 21st century > Exhibitions

Note

Published on the occasion of an exhibtion at the San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, April 20-August 4, 2019.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographic references (pages 258-260).

Language (note)

Text in English.

Contents

Foreword / Neal Benezra and Deborah Cullinan -- Where are we? A curatorial introduction / Rudolf Frieling, Lucía Sanromán, and Dominic Willsdon -- To reenact, to rethink, to redistribute Suzanne Lacy / Lucía Sanromán -- The text is active / Rudolf Frieling -- Geometry in motion / Dominic Willsdon -- Illustrated survey / with texts by Jessica D. Brier, Christa Cesario, Lucia Fabio, Taylor Shoolery, and Tanya Zimbardo. Bodies ; Personas ; Violence against women ; Networks ; Image and dialogue ; Youth ; Work and class.

ISBN

3791358383
9783791358383

Author

Lacy, Suzanne, artist.

Title

Publisher

[San Francisco, California] : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : DelMonico Books-Prestel, [2019]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographic references (pages 258-260).

Event

"Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here" : April 20-August 4, 2019, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, United States.

Language

Text in English.

Added Author

Lacy, Suzanne, artist. Works. Selections.

Frieling, Rudolf, 1956- editor, author.

Sanromán, Lucia, editor, author.

Willsdon, Dominic, editor, author.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.

Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, organizer, host institution.

Prestel Verlag, publisher.

Added Title

We are here

Branch Call Number

700.411 L

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