Louise Lawler: For Sale
[Stuttgart]: Reihe Cantz, [1994]. Offset. Perfect bound. 6 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. 68 pp. Text in English and German. Very good, with a price sticker on the back cover. Item #10601
Monograph on the work of conceptual artist and photographer Louise Lawler, documenting the trajectory of her artwork from studio to gallery to auction to museum or collection. An invaluable assemblage of photographs and accompanying analysis in both English and German.
Lawler subjects the concept of art to critical analysis by photographing drawings, paintings, and sculptures and incorporating aspects of their immediate surroundings into these “copies.” Striking in themselves, her demystified reproductions also reveal the contextual and situational connotations of the artworks, allowing the viewer to let the work recede into the background. In her own exhibitions Lawler restages and reflects on these institutionalizations and questions connotational shifts brought on by art industry, thus highlighting the ubiquity of value and value judgement in all art settings. Examples of Lawler’s photographs include images of paintings hanging on the walls of a museum, paintings on the walls of an art collector’s opulent home, artwork in the process of being installed in a gallery, and sculptures in a gallery being viewed by spectators.
Price: $150.00