The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson - Secret Agents, Private 1

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-520-23971-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Lynn Hershman Leeson's groundbreaking installation, performance, photography, video, digital, and film works have earned her an international reputation as a prodigious and innovative artist. This first historical and critical analysis of her work by prominent scholars and the artist herself brings nearly forty years of creative output into focus by tracking the development of her constant themes through each medium. The provocative essays in this volume, ranging from formal to theoretical to psychological to poetical analyses, establish her place at the forefront of contemporary art.

Hershman Leeson's work explores vision, spectatorship, and the construction of sexed subjectivity, touching on key feminist concerns relating to the lived experience of the physical body and the body as a medium on which social law and values are inscribed. Her projects of self-analysis and self mythification explode stable notions of identity. The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson demonstrates how Hershman Leeson's work uniquely mirrors fragmented human subjectivity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Especially useful are the artist's updated chronology and a DVD with excerpts from several of her works.

Copub: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tromble, Meredith

Hershman, Lynn

Weitere Mitwirkende

Held, Robin

Stephan, Kyle

Fox, Howard

Jones, Amelia

Dietz, Steve

Gagnon, Jean

Kurtz, Glenn

James, David

Rich, B. Ruby

Solomon-Godeau, Abigail

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction

Private I: An Investigator’s Timeline
Roberta Breitmore Lives On
Composing with Images: Lynn Hershman’s Photography
Conscientious Objectification: Lynn Hershman’s Paranoid Mirror
Media Phantasmagoria
Lynn Hershman: The Subject of Autobiography
My Other, My Self: Lynn Hershman and the Reinvention of the Golem
A Cinema of Intelligent Agents: Lynn Hershman’s Conceiving Ada and Teknolust
Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space
Animating the Network
Double Talk: The Counterstory of Lynn Hershman

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lynn Hershman Leeson is Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Davis, A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University, and editor of Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture (1996). Meredith Tromble is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute and editor in chief of Art Contemporaries. Robin Held, currently Chief Curator at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, is the curator of Hershmanlandia: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson, a retrospective of Lynn Hershman Leeson's work.