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 Alabamabecame 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 work was understood from the outset to challenge both the label artist and the idea of oeuvreand who has over the past three decades crafted a...

This generously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive overview of the work of the Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist Francis Stark. Frances Stark deftly deploys text, image, and literary sources in her drawings, collages, paintings, and video works that reflect on her roles as artist, mother, woman, and teacher.
Throughout her career she has experimented with alternative
modes of expression, as in her critically acclaimed video My
Best Thing; her PowerPoint work Structures that fit my opening
(and other parts considered in relation to their whole); and
the...