Celibi

October Books

by Rosalind E. Krauss

L’espressione artistica femminile analizzata attraverso le voci di nove artiste. In Celibi Rosalind Krauss si allontana dall’impostazione più tipica dei suoi scritti – dove artisti e opere sono immersi nei percorsi dell’argomentazione teorica e dell’analisi storica – e lascia spazio alle differenti specificità delle opere, lasciando che siano esse stesse a infrangere, per evidenza, il discorso tradizionalmente tutto al maschile della storia dell’arte. Dalla storica avanguardia del surrealismo di Claude Cahun per giungere alla più recente opera fotografica di Cindy Sherman, passando attraverso i lavori di Dora Maar, Agnes Martin, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Sherry Levine, Louise Lawler e Francesca Woodman.

Rosalind Krauss, nota già in Italia per i suoi scritti sulla fotografia e sulla evoluzione della scultura contemporanea, presenta in Celibi la terza fondamentale apertura dell’arte contemporanea a fianco della rivoluzione concettuale e di quella mediale: l’espressione artistica femminile.

Genres: Art, Theory, Nonfiction

218 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

American art critic, professor, and theorist who is based at Columbia University, teaching Modern Art and Theory.

Reviews

[Dana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Once you read Krauss you never view art the same way you used to. Although she's the first art critic I've read, I can tell that reading her is a transforming experience. This book shows how there are so many female artists who are "events", artists who have transgressed art, shaped how one would view a photograph, a painting, a grid, a sculpture. For me as a person who's still new to this world, this book changed the way I look at everything.

[Emily Wang]

Hesse’s work will always draw me in and Krauss’ musings on it made me consider the work even more.
So interesting to focus on Contingent, but makes me think about all the install pieces with “edges” that have followed

[Maura Brewer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really great essay on Cindy Sherman and the unconscious in this book... worht reading just for that. This book is all Krauss's essays on female artists, sort of her attempt to seem feminist. She's not really the most convincing feminist, many of her ideas involve comparing women artist to more successful male artists as a means of legitimizing their work.

[Gloria · Rating 3 out of 5]

You wish you could write like her (and get away with it).

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

I hate you but I love you.

[Danilo Howat]

Cindy Sherman: mãe