Skip to main content

Distributed for Renaissance Society

Jessica Stockholder

Approaching architectural space and scale with the formal inventiveness and speed common to gestural abstract painting, Stockholder took the art world by storm in the late 1980s.

The first half of the catalog chronicles Stockholder's installations from 1983–1991 in 35 beautiful color plates. Accompanying the reproductions are short descriptions, authored by the artist, addressing the architectural and material choices of each installation. The second half of the catalogue contains John Miller's essay "Formalism and Its Other", which keenly places Stockholder's activity somewhere between the rigorous formalism of Clement Greenberg's critical writing and the liberating potential of Allan Kaprow's Happenings.

Published in conjunction with the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; text in Dutch and English
 

48 pages | 10 halftones | 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 | © 1998

Art: Art--General Studies


Renaissance Society image

View all books from Renaissance Society

Be the first to know

Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists!

Sign up here for updates about the Press