Awards
- Winner of 50 Books | 50 Covers 2019
Overview
The incredible detail and scale of Lari Pittman's mesmerizing paintings are gloriously recreated in this lushly-illustrated retrospective book. One of the most prolific and exuberant painters of the past three decades, Lari Pittman creates works that mirror the social fabric of his time. This dazzling volume follows Pittman's trajectory as his visual language evolved and his technical mastery grew ever more sophisticated. From his early works- defiant affirmations of identity in the increasingly conservative 1980s-to his more recent subjects that feature emblems of cultural regression and commercialism, Pittman's paintings are uniquely operatic and ambitious. This book features over sixty paintings and thirty drawings, including Pittman's mural- scale series Flying Carpets. Alongside these illustrations are essays that place Pittman's imagery within both Modernism and recent histories of Los Angeles; and examine the work's political commentary as well as its many literary references. Serving as a cipher for the political tensions around the body and transcultural identity, Lari Pittman emerges as an artist who speaks truth to power through a visual language that reflects the contemporary world. AUTHOR: Connie Butler is Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She is the author of Marisa Merz and coauthor of Scorched Earth and Made in L.A. (all by Prestel). 150 colour illustrations
Full Product Details
Author: Connie Butler ,
George Baker ,
Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett ,
Donatien Grau
Publisher: Prestel
Imprint: Prestel
ISBN: 9783791356891
ISBN 10: 3791356895
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 02 September 2019
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This interesting book unpacks how stigma - of abortion, menstruation, incarceration, immigration, and poverty - create a social experience that cannot be detached from structural vulnerabilities. In doing so, these syndemic co-factors undermine interactions among social-biological, social-psychological, and biological- psychological domains, exemplifying how social experiences cannot be detached from syndemic theory. In these cases, it is the social experience of exclusion through stigmatization that systematically fuels isolation, ostracization, and subjugation through which poor health stems. -- Emily Mendenhall, Georgetown University
Author Information
CONNIE BUTLER is Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She is the author of Marisa Merz and coauthor of Scorched Earth and Made in L.A. (all by Prestel).
