Name: Joan Myers: Where the Buffalo Roamed: Images of the new West
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Author: Lucy R. Lippard
ISBN: 9788862086561

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Joan Myers: Where the Buffalo Roamed: Images of the new West

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lucy R. Lippard

Publisher

Damiani

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9788862086561

Synopsis "Joan Myers: Where the Buffalo Roamed: Images of the new West "

In her latest collection of photographs, Santa Fe–based photographer Joan Myers (born 1944) turns her lens to the American West, capturing both the myth and the reality, its shaping and appropriation by Hollywood and the ever-present but fracturing American dream. A larger-than-life statue of a cowboy stands on the same lot with a 1960s Cadillac Coupe de Ville. A man in Wrangler jeans and a cowboy hat sits for his portrait on a dais with a Hopi maiden and cows and deer made out of barbed wire in front of a curtain featuring a photograph of iconic cliffs and sky.In deconstructing the pictures, cultural critic Lucy Lippard notes that they “seem to emerge from cracks in American culture. They show us a past that still affects, and reflects, our present, revealing unexpected insights into how the myths of the West were formed and how they relate to reality.”

Lucy R. Lippard

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Lucy R. Lippard (New York, 1937) is a writer, art critic, curator, and American activist, known for her pioneering role in conceptual art and artistic feminism. Throughout her career, she has published more than 20 books on contemporary art, activism, feminism, and cultural politics. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (1968), the Frank Jewett Mather Award from the College Art Association (1975), the Distinguished Feminist Award (2012), and the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art (2015).

Among her most notable works are Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973), From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art (1976), Eva Hesse (1976), Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory (1983), Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (1990), and The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (1997). Her work falls within the genre of critical essay and art theory, and has been fundamental in understanding the intersections between art, politics, and society.

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