Lynne Tillman

A former historian is spending time in a residential home but is it an artist s retreat a sanatorium or a mental institute In hypnotic and digressive prose Tillman s narrator spins tales of her life while ruminating on her many and varied preoccupations chair design the Manson family the Zulu alphabet the death of a pet family trauma loneliness and above all skin and the meaning of sensitivity in contemporary society Meanwhile these reveries and reminiscences are constantly interrupted by the presence of her fellow residents each with their own obsessions and neuroses In this masterful novel now available in the UK for the first time Tillman fashions nothing less than a microcosm of troubled American democracy American Genius A Comedy reinvents the modernist novel for our distracted and hypermediated era it is the tale of a cons

Vivimos en un exceso de imágenes. Vivimos por y para las imágenes, pensamos en imágenes, vivimos en las imágenes. Este es el campo de estudio del protagonista de esta novela, Ezekiel Stark, antropólogo cultural y etnografo especializado en fotografias fam

Jessica Stockholder A survey of the artist''s vividly coloured three-dimensional collages.Survey by Barry Schwabsky, Interview by Lynne Tillman, Focus by Lynne Cooke, Artist''s Choice text by Julian Jaynes and Cornelius Castoriadis, Writings by Jessica Stockholder North American artist Jessica Stockholder (b.1959) explodes the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture Found objects, from oranges to neon tubes, discarded household fabrics and building materials are massed and intertwined with profusions of vivid colour Her architectonic installations recall Kurt Schwitters'' Dadaist collages, splicing them with the formal concerns of 1950s abstract painting and a postmodern sensibility About the authorBack to top of page Barry Schwabsky is an art critic and poet living in London. He contributed to Phaidon''s Vitamin P (2002) and is a regular contributor to Artforum and numerous other art journals. His books include The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (1997), and Opera: Poems 1981-2002 (2003). Lynne Tillman is an art critic and writer of fiction whose books include No Lease on Life (1999) and This is Not It (2002). A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Tillman has collaborated often with artists and writes regularly on art and culture. Lynne Cooke has been curator at Dia Art Foundation since 1991. She co-curated the 1991 Carnegie International and was Artistic Director of the 1996 Sydney Biennale. She is a lecturer at Yale University and is on the faculty for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Una mujer joven va a la deriva por bares con luz tenue y habitaciones de alquiler e informa cual enviada especial desde las zonas erógenas de Nueva York y de Europa. Al toparse con situaciones sexuales cada vez mas extrañas, dirige su mirada curiosa, comica e incisiva hacia el mundo contemporaneo del sexo y el deseo. Los hombres de este mundo escapan y fuerzan la sonrisa, cazan, se acicalan y se enamoran perdidamente. En los retratos socarrones de la narradora vemos a mujeres jovenes entregandose a su libertad a traves de la esperanza y la decepcion, y a hombres jovenes que se disfrazan con diversas formas de masculinidad.

Definidas por pinceladas audaces, un uso dinámico del color y composiciones imaginativas, las pinturas de Dana Schutz son extensiones panorámicas que ofrecen visiones de la humanidad en todas sus complejas facetas. Su enfoque profundamente subjetivo, desligado del realismo, se traduce en imagenes que parecen existir en un lugar que trasciende el tiempo mientras celebra las cualidades intrinsecas del medio de su eleccion con libertad e inteligencia. Como afirmo la propia artista: "Estoy interesada en la pintura como un lugar afectivo donde las jerarquias del mundo pueden reorganizarse dentro del espacio de una pintura". Esta primera monografia completa sobre su trabajo fue creada en estrecha colaboracion con la artista y presenta una serie de pinturas y dibujos nunca antes vistos.