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Isa Genzken

Everyone Needs At Least One Window

 
 

1992, 149 pp., 11 color, 241 b/w illus., paperback
ISBN 3-88375-159-6
 
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  Essays by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Paul Groot
Text in German and English

"The entire art system urgently needs a vacation." -Isa Genzken

A student at the dynamic Dusseldorf Academy during the 1960s, Genzken has since consistently challenged Modernist imperatives in her explorations of the relationships between public and private space, light and temporality, artistic autonomy and collective experience. This catalogue is a comprehensive review of Genzken's work--which includes sculpture, film and photography--from the late 1970's to 1992. In addition to photographs of Genzken's sculpture installations, the catalogue includes a photographic narrative of an extended hospital stay and documentation of the making of her film, Chicago Drive. Buchloh's essay traces the development of Genzken's work within the internationalizing, self-critical conditions of post-War Germany and illuminates the significance of her work in the pivotal decades of early postmodernism.

Published in conjunction with Buchhandlung Walther K?nig, K?ln
 


   
   
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