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Mierle Laderman Ukeles - maintenance art / Patricia C. Phillips with Tom Finkelpearl, Larissa Harris, and Lucy R. Lippard

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: [New York] : Queens Museum, 2016Publisher: Munich ; London ; New York : DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2016Description: 255 SeitenISBN:
  • 9783791355382
Other title:
  • Maintenance art
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 700.92 23
RVK: RVK: LI 99999LOC classification:
  • N6537.U39
Summary: "The work of Mierle Laderman Ukeles bridges feminism, environmentalism, and participatory art practice. This first comprehensive book on the influential artist explores her legendary tenure as artist-in-residence at New York City's Department of Sanitation, which paved the way for similar "embedded artists" in government and community organizations. Essays, interviews, and striking illustrations offer important perspectives on an artists who has transformed our ideas about the feminist, urban, ecological, and resilient aspects of artistic experience. Whether it's her groundbreaking "Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!," which decries the separation, especially for women, between art on the one hand and caring for family, city, and planet on the other; or "The Social Mirror," in which she covered a New York City Department of Sanitation truck entirely in mirrored glass-Ukeles's body of work includes public art installations, exhibitions, and performances around the world, frequently created in collaboration with sanitation and municipal workers, museum visitors, and the public"--Call number: Grundsignatur: 2020 E 804PPN: PPN: 860114023
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Freihandbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Süd kunst 2.17 Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) 2020 E 804 Available 53735992090
Total holds: 0
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