Inventory: The Work Of Christine Hill And Volksboutique

by Lucy R. Lippard

Exceptionally organized with a sincere nod toward dated encyclopedias and the anachronistic world of old-fashioned stationer's, Inventory holds true to the letter of the dictionary--which definition shall not be supplied here. Please look it up. Cataloging the orderly work that Christine Hill has produced over the past 10 years--including Pilot, Productions, Vending Machine, Tourguide, Reference Library, and Handbag, collectively referred to as Organizational Ventures--Inventory archives work created in each of the Volksboutique's international offices, located in Binghamton, Baltimore, Berlin, and Brooklyn, and a number of vital texts and reference images.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published February 2, 2004

About the author

Since 1966, Lippard has published 20 books on feminism, art, politics and place and has received numerous awards and accolades from literary critics and art associations. A 2012 exhibition on her seminal book, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object at the Brooklyn Museum, titled "Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art", cites Lippard's scholarship as its point of entry into a discussion about conceptual art during its era of emergence, demonstrating her crucial role in the contemporary understanding of this period of art production and criticism. Her research on the move toward dematerialization in art making has formed a cornerstone of contemporary art scholarship and discourse.

Co-founder of Printed matter (an art bookstore in New York City centered around artist's books), the Heresies Collective, Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D), Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, and other artists' organizations, she has also curated over 50 exhibitions, done performances, comics, guerrilla theater, and edited several independent publications the latest of which is the decidedly local La Puente de Galisteo in her home community in Galisteo, New Mexico. She has infused aesthetics with politics, and disdained disinterestedness for ethical activism.

Reviews

[Lou · Rating 4 out of 5]

as a book itself it's really well designed well and exists as a nice art object- hill's approach to art and life is really interesting- not astounding but a faciniating other option for exisiting as an artist.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank God, I finished my thesis.