Laura Owens
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About this topic
Laura Owens is a contemporary artist known for her distinctive approach to painting that often blends elements of abstraction and figuration. Her work frequently explores themes such as identity, perception, and the interplay between the personal and the collective. Readers interested in Laura Owens may find themselves drawn to discussions about modern art movements, the role of women in contemporary art, and the impact of digital culture on traditional artistic practices. This overview serves as a gateway to understanding her contributions to the art world and the narratives that shape her unique style.
Key Topics to Explore
- Contemporary Art Movements
- Identity and Perception in Art
- Women in Art
- Digital Influence on Traditional Practices
What You Will Find
Books related to Laura Owens typically delve into contemporary art, examining the evolution of artistic styles and the significance of modern artists. Readers can expect a range of works that cover both theoretical perspectives and practical insights, suitable for those new to art as well as seasoned enthusiasts. The content may include critical essays, artist interviews, and explorations of specific exhibitions or movements that resonate with Owens' artistic vision.
Common Questions
What themes are prevalent in Laura Owens' work?
Laura Owens' work often addresses themes of identity, perception, and the blending of abstraction with figuration, reflecting her unique perspective on contemporary life.
How does Laura Owens contribute to contemporary art?
Owens contributes to contemporary art by challenging traditional boundaries and exploring the intersection of personal experience and collective narratives in her paintings.
What can I learn from books about Laura Owens?
Books about Laura Owens can provide insights into her artistic process, the cultural context of her work, and the broader implications of her contributions to modern art.
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Owens, Laura
Author: Scott Rothkopf
language: en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date: 2017-01-01
A richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist's pioneering and influential work, with each copy featuring a unique silk-screen cover printed in Owens's studio Since the early 1990s, Laura Owens (b. 1970) has challenged traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction in her pioneering approach to painting. Created in close collaboration with the artist on the occasion of her mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, this inventive and comprehensive book features an incisive introduction by Scott Rothkopf, critical essays, literary texts, and short commentaries on a variety of subjects related to Owens's broad interests, which range from folk art and needlework to comics and wallpaper. Reflections by more than twenty of Owens's fellow artists, collaborators, assistants, dealers, family members, and friends offer an array of perspectives on her work at different periods in her life, beginning with her high school years in Ohio and ending with her current exhibition. A rich trove of more than a thousand images, drawn from the artist's personal archive and largely unpublished before now, includes personal correspondence, journals, academic transcripts, handwritten notes, source material, exhibition announcements, clippings, and installation photographs. Strikingly, each copy also features a unique silk-screen cover printed in Owens's studio, giving readers the opportunity to own an original work of art. Together, all of these elements provide a rare and intimate look at how an artist might make her way in the world as well as how art gets made, movements take hold, and relationships evolve over time.
Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?
Author: Clint Burnham
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2018-05-31
Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? is both an introduction to the work of Slavoj Žižek and an investigation into how his work can be used to think about the digital present. Clint Burnham uniquely combines the German idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist materialism found in Žižek's thought to understand how the Internet, social and new media, and digital cultural forms work in our lives and how their failure to work structures our pathologies and fantasies. He suggests that our failure to properly understand the digital is due to our lack of recognition of its political, aesthetic, and psycho-sexual elements. Mixing autobiographical passages with critical analysis, Burnham situates a Žižekian theory of digital culture in the lived human body.
PhotographyDigitalPainting
Author: Carl Robinson
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: 2020-08-11
This anthology explores the connections between photography, the digital, and painting in contemporary art practices. While there is much research being undertaken into the mediums under discussion as discrete concerns in the digital age, there is little investigation into these in combination. As photography, the digital, and painting frame the contemporary visual discourse, a rigorous investigation into this relationship is much needed. This book, which continues the investigations begun with PaintingDigitalPhotography, undertakes this by leading the research into questions of medium-fluidity in contemporary visual art practices. The contributors here are renowned artists, senior academics, theorists, and younger researches contributing to the field of study. Their essays address a wide range of interrelated topics, including AI generation of digital imagery, hyperreal photographic visions of the world, the embodied experience of the painter, and art practice that synthesises the three mediums, amongst others. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, academics, and researchers studying the associations of these mediums in the digital age.
