Nancy Holt

Sightlines
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-520-28236-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 243 mm x 282 mm, Gewicht: 1569 g

This is the first retrospective study of Nancy Holt, the visionary American artist—a landmark companion book to the “Nancy Holt: Sightlines” exhibition. Holt’s wide-ranging body of work since the late 1960s includes Land art—particularly the monumental Sun Tunnels (1973-1976), major works of sculpture, installations, film, and video. A comprehensive representation of her working process in both word and image, this book illuminates Holt’s interest in physical space and reveals how the geographic variety and boundlessness of the American landscape afforded the artist numerous opportunities to develop large-scale projects beyond the confines of New York City’s gallery walls. Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of contributors—including Pamela M. Lee, Lucy R. Lippard, Ines Schaber, and Matthew Coolidge—chart Holt’s fascinating trajectory from her initial experiments with sound, light, and industrial materials to major site interventions and environmental sculpture. James Meyer’s valuable interview with Holt and Julia Alderson’s illustrated chronology expand our knowledge of this groundbreaking artist and the crucial contexts in which she worked. More than twenty original writings by the artist and a rare selection of her concrete poetry, documentary photographs, and preparatory drawings reveal Holt’s revolutionary concepts of space, time, optics, and scale.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Alena J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lee, Pamela M.

Schaber, Ines

Lippard, Lucy R.

Coolidge, Matthew

Williams, Alena J.

Meyer, James

Alderson, Julia

Holt, Nancy

Homans, Katy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Konzeptkunst, Postmodernismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE - ALENA J. WILLIAMS
INTRODUCTION - ALENA J. WILLIAMS

ART AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM: NANCY HOLT AND THE SECOND-ORDER OBSERVER - PAMELA M. LEE
TUNNEL VISIONS: NANCY HOLT’S ART IN THE PUBLIC EYE - LUCY R. LIPPARD
PHOTOGRAPHS AND WRITINGS ON SELECTED SITE-SPECIFIC SCULPTURES - NANCY HOLT
THE CLAIMS SHE STAKES: A READING OF NANCY HOLT’S ARCHIVE - INES SCHABER
CONCRETE TRACES: NANCY HOLT’S SPEAKING MEDIA - ALENA J. WILLIAMS
SKY MOUND: MONUMENT OF PERPETUAL POSSIBILITY - MATTHEW COOLIDGE
INTERVIEW WITH NANCY HOLT - JAMES MEYER
SELECTED ARTIST’S WRITINGS - NANCY HOLT
CHRONOLOGY - JULIA ALDERSON

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Alena Williams is an art historian and the curator of the Sightlines exhibition to open at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, in Fall 2010.