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Women, Making, and Everyday Value in Contemporary Installation Art: Jessica Stockholder, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze


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What can art offer as it extends beyond aesthetic categories and their boundaries?
Examining the work of three major American contemporary artists, Jessica Stockholder, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze, this book explores their installation-specific practice in rich detail, connecting it to wider issues surrounding feminist art, everyday objects, DIY spaces and practice in the 1990s and broader contemporary period.

Feminist art practice has long invested in the shape, routines, and materials of everyday life but the 1990s saw a significant return of handwork and process-driven practice within installation art. This book highlights the capacity for artwork to promote alternate categories of aesthetic experience through investigations of inventive and alternative materials and processes. By looking across these artists' contrasting practices and approaches to intermediality, the book shows how their work makes connections between the mundane and surprising, the banal and transformed, and the real and imaginary.

Richly illustrated and drawing on interviews with Stockholder, Lou and Sze, each chapter presents a case study for how these artists have questioned the aesthetics of the everyday through their provocative use of everyday objects, craft materials and making techniques. Each artwork is situated within broader issues surrounding materiality and contemporary art, and each artist examined in relation to their contemporaries, including Abraham Cruzvillegas, Haegue Yang, Rachel Harrison, Thomas Hirschhorn, Cady Noland, Gabriel Orozco, Rikrit Tiravanija and Do Ho Suh. What emerges is a new understanding of aesthetic and material value, and the legacy of experimental forms of artistic production.



Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements


Introduction: The Doing Hand
1. Jessica Stockholder and the Optimism of Everyday Making
2. Material Dilations: Liza Lou’s Kitchen
3. Critical Wonder and Everyday Value: Sarah Sze on the Move
Conclusion: Sometimes Friendship

Notes
Index



About the Author :
Elyse Speaks is Professor of the Practice of Art History at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Review :
A rich new interpretation of the work of artists at the forefront of the return of the handmade and process-driven practices in sculpture and installation in the 1990s. With much needed contextualization, the book charts the legacies of this distinctive way of working in the contemporary art world. Through remarkable descriptions of the room-sized works of Stockholder, Lou, and Sze, this book demonstrates the ways these artists employed untrained ‘amateur processes’ to generate something like 3D abstract paintings: an optimistic basis for a less hierarchical, more tangibly material, set of values. Dexterously unpacks the politics and values of making today—effectively redressing a gap in the discourse around the ‘post-medium condition’. Through stunning prose, this book equips readers with a sophisticated set of tools for grasping contemporary art practice with generosity and care.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350497764
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Sub Title: Jessica Stockholder, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1350497762
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 656 gr


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