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Hannah Wilke

Art for Life’s Sake

Author: Donna Wingate, Tamara Schenkenberg, Glenn Adamson and Connie Butler  

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One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women's bodies and their representation throughout her career, until her untimely death in 1993. Wilke established a uniquely feminist iconography in virtually all of the mediums she engaged with-painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance art- and offered a life-affirming expression of vitality and bodily pleasure in her work.


Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake highlights the artist's full range of expression, bringing together photographs, works on paper, video, and examples of Wilke's sculptures in clay and other, nonconventional materials such as latex, kneaded erasers, and chewing gum. New object photography brings clarity to Wilke's boundary-crossing art practice, making many of her rarely shown works accessible to readers for the first time. The book features a previously unpublished 1975 interview with Wilke by art critic and historian Cindy Nemser as well as a narrative chronology of Wilke's art and life with many previously unpublished archival photographs. It includes essays by Glenn Adamson, Connie Butler, and Tamara Schenkenberg, and responses to Wilke's work by contemporary artists Hayv Kahraman, Nadia Myre, Jeanine Oleson, and Catherine Opie.

Offering fresh perspectives on this influential artist, Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake sheds new light on Wilke's technical and formal virtuosity, her important role in shaping postwar American art, and the nuance and poignancy of her feminist subject matter.

Published in association with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation

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Critic Reviews

“"One of American Institute of Graphic Arts' Top 50 Books / 50 Covers of 2021"”

"One of American Institute of Graphic Arts’ Top 50 Books / 50 Covers of 2021"
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Can a catalogue be an erotic object?. . . . My version of Wilke’s history has once again shifted after seeing the Pulitzer exhibition and reading its catalogue.

"---Marissa Vigneault, Women's Art Journal

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About the Author

Tamara H. Schenkenberg is curator at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Twitter @tschenkenberg Donna Wingate is a New Yorkbased editor. Glenn Adamson is an independent curator and writer and a senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art. Twitter @GlennAdamson Connie Butler is chief curator at the Hammer Museum.

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One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women's bodies and their representation throughout her career, until her untimely death in 1993. Wilke established a uniquely feminist iconography in virtually all of the mediums she engaged with--painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance art-- and offered a life-affirming expression of vitality and bodily pleasure in her work. Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake highlights the artist's full range of expression, bringing together photographs, works on paper, video, and examples of Wilke's sculptures in clay and other, nonconventional materials such as latex, kneaded erasers, and chewing gum. New object photography brings clarity to Wilke's boundary-crossing art practice, making many of her rarely shown works accessible to readers for the first time. The book features a previously unpublished 1975 interview with Wilke by art critic and historian Cindy Nemser as well as a narrative chronology of Wilke's art and life with many previously unpublished archival photographs. It includes essays by Glenn Adamson, Connie Butler, and Tamara Schenkenberg, and responses to Wilke's work by contemporary artists Hayv Kahraman, Nadia Myre, Jeanine Oleson, and Catherine Opie.Offering fresh perspectives on this influential artist, Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake sheds new light on Wilke's technical and formal virtuosity, her important role in shaping postwar American art, and the nuance and poignancy of her feminist subject matter.Published in association with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
1st March 2022
Pages
252
ISBN
9780691220376

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