Böcker av Howard Singerman

Sechs Jahre Acts of Art, eine Galerie, die 1969 von und für Schwarze Künstler*innen in Greenwich Village gegründet wurde. Die Publikation blickt zurück, skizziert das New York der damaligen Zeit, die lokale Kunstszene und stellt die an die Galerie angegliederten Künstler*innen vor.Die in den 60er und 70er Jahren in Greenwich Village gelegene Acts of Art Kunstgalerie spielte eine essentielle Rolle innerhalb der Gemeinschaften Schwarzer Künstler*innen in New York. Ein eng verbundenes Netzwerk an Künstler*innen rund um den Mitbegründer Nigel Jackson bildeten das Zentrum. Von Benny Andrews, James Denmark, Loïs Mailou Jones bis zu Hale Woodruff - die Publikation stellt sie alle mit exemplarischen Werken vor. Ein vollständige Dokumenation der Ausstellungen und Veranstaltungen sowie Biografien runden die Publikation ab.

"Few sites within the university open a richer critical reflection than that of the M.F.A., with its complex crossing of professionalism, theory, humanistic knowledge, and the absolute exposure of practice. Howard Singerman's "Art Subjects does a magnificent job of both laying out our current crises, letting us see the shards of past practices embedded in them, and of demonstrating--rendering urgent and discussable--what it now means either to assume or award the name of the artist."--Stephen Melville, author of "Seams, editor of "Vision and Textuality""Art Subjects is a must read for anyone interested in both the education and status of the visual artist in America. With careful attention to detail and nuance, Singerman presents a compelling picture of the peculiarly institutional myth of the creative artist as an untaught and unteachable being singularly well adapted to earn a tenure position at a major research university. A fascinating study, thoroughly researched yet oddly, and movingly, personal."--Thomas Lawson, Dean, Art School, CalArts

Examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans" - taken from Evans' famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama - became central examples in theorizing postmodernism in the visual arts in the 1980s.