Leah Pires (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. Finesse, in its most general sense, denotes skill and discretion when handling a situation-even the subtle manipulation of circumstances to one's advantage. This may involve clever maneuvering, cunning, or artifice. Finesse can also designate delicate workmanship or refined comportment. It is synonymous to dexterity, trickery, and sleight. This publication brings together recent and newly-commissioned work by seven artists whose work deliberately finesses the relationship between the artist and the structures she occupies-whether material, social, or political. This tactic rests on the premise that those attuned to the conditions that reproduce a system are best positioned to transform them from within.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. An eye-opening book about the 1980s New York art scene, its far-reaching effects on contemporary art, and the rise of some of the biggest names in the art world today. This groundbreaking book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Hirshhorn, tells the story of the evolution of New York's downtown art scene in the 1980s--from a DIY counterculture in the East Village to a legitimate gallery business in SoHo. Coinciding with the rise of modern branding and the onset of the information age, artists' focus on commodities and consumerism began as satire but came to be much more complex: commodities and associated phenomena, such as advertising, now served as vessels for ideas, politics, and personal relationships in 'brand-new' types of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance. In a book full of visual surprises, newly commissioned essays shed new light on this pivotal period: curator Gianni Jetzer provides a comprehensive overview, while Leah Pires illuminates lesser-known conceptual collaborations, and Bob Nickas offers an eyewitness account of the East Village gallery scene. These texts, together with an illustrated chronology, provide a fresh account of the moment at which contemporary artists such as Felix Gonzlez-Torres, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, and Cindy Sherman grabbed the ball from Andy Warhol and ran with it, changing the rules of the game forever.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 192 pages. 11.00x9.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Finesse, in its most general sense, denotes skill and discretion when handling a situation-even the subtle manipulation of circumstances to one's advantage. This may involve clever maneuvering, cunning, or artifice. Finesse can also designate delicate workmanship or refined comportment. It is synonymous to dexterity, trickery, and sleight. This publication brings together recent and newly-commissioned work by seven artists whose work deliberately finesses the relationship between the artist and the structures she occupies-whether material, social, or political. This tactic rests on the premise that those attuned to the conditions that reproduce a system are best positioned to transform them from within.…

192 pages; illustrated. Hardback 28.4x23.6cms. ISBN: 9780847862412. This exhibition presents a focused history of the decade, bringing rarely displayed works from U.S. and European collections together for the first time since the '80s. Among the artists featured, there are some of today's most influential figures: Ashley Bickerton, Jessica Diamond, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Joel Otterson, Richard Prince, Erika Rothenberg, Sarah Charlesworth, Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman and Julia Wachtel, as well as artist collectives and projects such as ACT UP Gran Fury, The Offices, General Idea, Fashion Moda and Guerrilla Girls. Three major installations have been recreated for the first time in thirty years, including seminal works by Gretchen Bender, Barbara Bloom and Krzysztof Wodiczko.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 9.3 X 1 X 11.2 inches; 192 pages.