Mining For Gold
Selected Writings 1979-1996  ![Mining For Gold<br> <br>Selected Writings 1979-1996]()
By Thomas Lawson. Edited by Lionel Bovier and Fabrice Stroun.
More than any artist-writer of his generation, Thomas Lawson has the makeup of a true journalist. He is an embedded correspondent, a polemical editorialist, sending his first-person dispatches from the front lines. He knows the terrain from many vantage points: He is an artist, publisher, occasional curator, and current academic (dean at CalArts) in addition to being a writer. Reacting to the ambient hegemony of late modernism and its avant-garde myths, Lawson is determined to take sides, to make critical distinctions, attempting along the way to enunciate a progressive position from the very heart of an increasingly reactionary milieu. This collection of essays focuses on the emergence of appropriation and includes such seminal texts as "Last Exit: Painting." Mining for Gold provides a comprehensive narrative of some of the most trenchant ideological quarrels to have surfaced from within the art world of the 1980s.
PUBLISHED BY: JRP|Ringier
FORMAT: Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 240 pgs.
ISBN: 9782940271221 ISBN10: 2940271224
PUBLICATION DATE: 08/15/2005
AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop.
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