Art History, After Sherrie Levine

by Howard Singerman

This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans"--taken not from life but from Evans's famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama--became central examples in theorizing postmodernism in the visual arts in the 1980s. For the first in-depth examination of Levine, Howard Singerman surveys a wide variety of sources, both historical and theoretical, to assess an artist whose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520267222
• ISBN13: 9780520267220
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"