Lisa Yuskavage's work redefines figurative painting through her unique characters that serve as both subject and object, challenging viewer perceptions. Her compositions blend realism and abstraction, with color playing a crucial role in conveying meaning. The interplay of high and low culture, alongside themes of harmony and dissonance, adds depth to her art. Yuskavage's painterly techniques draw from art history while resisting strict categorization, emphasizing an emotional formalism where characters and visual elements hold equal significance.
The book showcases Dana Schutz's latest paintings and sculptures, featuring grotesque characters in allegorical scenes that explore themes of subjecthood and self-preservation. With vibrant, large-scale works, the pieces convey the complexities of human existence through tragicomic situations. Accompanying a 2023 exhibition, it includes a long-form essay by Jarrett Earnest, detailing Schutz's artistic process and her ambitious sculpture, Sea Group. The publication also features behind-the-scenes photography by Jason Schmidt, providing an intimate glimpse into the artist's creative journey.
The legendary 'Brooklyn Rail' has been a platform for artists, academics, and writers in New York and abroad for over fifteen years. The monthly journal?s continued appeal is due in large part to its wonderfully diverse contributors, many of whom bring contrasting and often unexpected opinions to conversations about art and aesthetics. No other publication devotes as much space to the artist?s voice, allowing ideas to unfold and idiosyncrasies to emerge through open discussion.00Since its inception, cofounder and artistic director Phong Bui and his team have interviewed over one hundred artists for The Brooklyn Rail. This volume brings together for the first time a selection of sixty of the most influential and seminal interviews with artists ranging from Richard Serra and Brice Marden, to Alex Da Corte and House of Ladosha. While each interview is important in its own right, offering a perspective on the life and work of a specific artist, collectively they tell the story of a journal that has grown during one of the more diverse and surprising periods in visual art. There is no unified style or perspective; 'The Brooklyn Rail''s strength lies in its ability to include and champion difference
In the last 50 years, art criticism has flourished as never before. Moving from niche to mainstream, it is now widely taught at universities, practiced in newspapers, magazines and online, and has become the subject of debate by readers, writers and artists worldwide. Equal parts oral history and analysis of craft, What it Means to Write About Art offers an unprecedented overview of American art writing. Jarrett Earnest's wide-ranging conversations with critics, historians, journalists, novelists, poets and theorists each of whom approaches the subject from a unique position illustrate different ways of writing, thinking and looking at art. These in-depth conversations about writing and art are situated within individual life experiences: for instance John Ashbery recalls finding Rimbaud's poetry through his first crush at 16; Rosalind Krauss remembers stealing the design of October from Massimo Vignelli; Paul Chaat Smith details his early days with Jimmie Durham in the American Indian Movement; Dave Hickey talks about writing country songs with Waylon Jennings; Michele Wallace relives her late-night and early-morning interviews with James Baldwin; Lucy Lippard describes confronting Clement Greenberg at a lecture; Eileen Myles asserts her belief that her negative review incited the Women's Action Coalition; and Fred Moten recounts falling in love with Renoir while at Harvard
