Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson Secret Agents, Private I

Name: Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson Secret Agents, Private I
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ISBN: 9780520239708

ISBN-10: 0520239709

ISBN-13: 9780520239708

Edition: 2006

Authors: Meredith Tromble, Robin Held, Kyle Stephan, Meredith Tromble

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Lynn Hershman Leeson's groundbreaking installation, performance, photography, video, digital, and film works have earned her an international reputation as a prodigious and innovative artist. This first historical and critical analysis of her work by prominent scholars and the artist herself brings nearly forty years of creative output into focus by tracking the development of her constant themes through each medium. The provocative essays in this volume, ranging from formal to theoretical to psychological to poetical analyses, establish her place at the forefront of contemporary art. Hershman Leeson's work explores vision, spectatorship, and the construction of sexed subjectivity, touching…

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/5/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.738



Foreword: Hershmanlandia



Introduction: Breaking the Code



Private I: An Investigator's Timeline



Roberta Breitmore Lives On



Composing with Images: Lynn Hershman's Photography



Conscientious Objectification: Lynn Hershman's Paranoid Mirror



Media Phantasmagoria



Lynn Hershman: The Subject of Autobiography



My Other, My Self: Lynn Hershman and the Reinvention of the Golem



A Cinema of Intelligent Agents: Conceiving Ada and Teknolust



Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space



Animating the Network



Double Talk: The Counterstory of Lynn Hershman



Acknowledgments


Contributors


List of Illustrations


Contents of DVD