Monica Bonvicini / Monica Bonvicini /Janet Kraynak, Juliane Rebentisch, Alexander Alberro.
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TextSeries: Contemporary artistsPublication details: London : Phaidon, 2014.Description: 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cmISBN: - 9780714867052
- 0714867055
- 709.2 BON
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The most comprehensive monograph on the work of Monica Bonvicini
Includes bibliographical references.
Interview: Alexander Alberro in conversation with Monica Bonvicini -- Survey. The architecture of history: On the art of Monica Bonvicini / Janet Karynak -- Focus. Convolutions: On the logic of ornamentation in the work of Monica Bonvicini / Juliane Rebentisch -- Artist\'s choice -- Artist\'s writings -- Chronology.
Confronting the overlap between patriarchy and architecture head on, Monica Bonvicini has attracted international attention with her video Wallfucking in which a naked woman rubs her genitals against a wall protuberance and with her site-specific installations using chains, steel and leather. Architecture is the ultimate erotic act, carry it to excess, asserts an installation in this monograph.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Janet Kraynak is a New York-based art historian, curator, and Visual Arts Program Coordinator at the Eugene Lang College. A regular contributor to magazines such as Artforum , Art Journal , Grey Room and Frieze , Kraynak's interest in performance strategies and the development of linguistically-based artworks brought her to extensively research the work of Bruce Nauman, and to edit two seminal publications focused on his practice, Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews (MIT Press, 2003) and Reiterating Nauman (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College as well as a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2000), and has edited or co-edited a number of books on contemporary art, including Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (MIT Press, 1999), Recording Conceptual Art (University of California, 2001), and The Ruin of Exchange (JRP/Ringier, 2012).
Juliane Rebentisch is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. She is the author of numerous essays and books, including Ästhetik der Installation (2003) and Stage of Life: Rhetorics of Emotion (2007).
Monica Bonvicini (Venice, 1965) is a Berlin-based, award-winning, multimedia artist whose work questions issues such as architecture, power and gender by setting a dynamic and often critical relationship with the artistic form.