Amy Sillman: Faux Pas (second edition)
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Author: Sillman, Amy
This third printing of Faux Pas is expanded by new drawings and texts, including the previously unpublished lecture on drawing. The volume gathers a significant selection of Sillman’s essays, reviews and lectures, most of them made specially for the book. It aims at revealing the originality of Sillman’s reflection as she addresses the possibilities of art today, favouring wrestling over dandyism, forms over symbols, with critical sense and humour.Since the 1970s, Sillman – a beloved and key figure of the New York art scene – has developed a singular body of work that includes large-scale gestural paintings blending abstraction with representation, as well as zines and iPad animations.Over the past decade, Sillman has also produced stimulating essays on the practice of art or the work of other artists: for example, re-evaluating the work of the abstract expressionists with a queer eye; elaborating on the role of awkwardness and the body in the artistic process; and discussing in depth the role and meanings of colour and shape. Based in New York City, Amy Sillman (born 1955) is an artist whose work consistently combines the visceral with the intellectual. She began to study painting in the 1970s at the School of Visual Arts and she received her MFA from Bard College in 1995. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Biennial in 2014 and the Venice Biennale in 2022; her writing has appeared in Bookforum and Artforum, among other publications. She is currently represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York.
ISBN 9782492650048. After 8 Books. pb. 288 pages. 60 b/w ills. 18 x 12 cm.
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This third printing of Faux Pas is expanded by new drawings and texts, including the previously unpublished lecture on drawing. The volume gathers a significant selection of Sillman’s essays, reviews and lectures, most of them made specially for the book. It aims at revealing the originality of Sillman’s reflection as she addresses the possibilities of art today, favouring wrestling over dandyism, forms over symbols, with critical sense and humour.Since the 1970s, Sillman – a beloved and key figure of the New York art scene – has developed a singular body of work that includes large-scale gestural paintings blending abstraction with representation, as well as zines and iPad animations.Over the past decade, Sillman has also produced stimulating essays on the practice of art or the work of other artists: for example, re-evaluating the work of the abstract expressionists with a queer eye; elaborating on the role of awkwardness and the body in the artistic process; and discussing in depth the role and meanings of colour and shape. Based in New York City, Amy Sillman (born 1955) is an artist whose work consistently combines the visceral with the intellectual. She began to study painting in the 1970s at the School of Visual Arts and she received her MFA from Bard College in 1995. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Biennial in 2014 and the Venice Biennale in 2022; her writing has appeared in Bookforum and Artforum, among other publications. She is currently represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York.
ISBN 9782492650048. After 8 Books. pb. 288 pages. 60 b/w ills. 18 x 12 cm.
available