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Creating ourselves : the self in art : works from the ISelf Collection / edited by Emily Butler with Candy Stobbs.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2017Description: 219 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780854882571
  • 085488257X
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction to the Sukkar Family Collection / Lydia Yee
Creating ourselves as a Work of Art / Emily Butler
Self-Portrait as the Billy Goat
Mirror Image? / Frances Borzello
The End of Love
Self Image / Nicholas Cullinan
The Upset Bucket
Waste Management / Glenn Adamson
Bumped Bodies
The Body and Its Works, Haunted by Desire / Amelia Jones
Radical Figuration and the Experience of Being / Maria Sukkar in conversation with Iwona Blazwick
Afterword / Prue O'Day
Summary: From Surrealist selfies to feminist self-portraiture, the ISelf Collection explores identity and the human condition through the central themes of birth, death, sexuality, love, pain and joy. Taking the display of the collection at Whitechapel Gallery as its springboard, this book looks generally at the question of the self in modern and contemporary art, and the ways in which artists are thinking about being and identity as an individual, in relation to others, to society and the wider world. Featuring works by a world-class roster of artists including Francis Alys, Fiona Banner, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Alex Katz, Sarah Lucas, Mike Nelson, Cindy Sherman, John Stezaker and Wolfgang Tillmans, this fully illustrated catalogue also includes essays by Glenn Adamson, Frances Borzello, Nicholas Cullinan and Amelia Jones, as well as a selection of quotes by influential writers and theorists as chosen by some of the artists included.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Gold 704.942 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 09035

Published on the occasion of the exhibition in four chapters at the Whitechapel Gallery: "ISelf Collection : Self-portrait as the Billy Goat", 27 April-20 August 2017; "ISelf Collection : The End of Love", 30 August-26 November 2017; "ISelf Collection : The Upset Bucket", 5 December 2017-1 April 2018; "ISelf Collection : Bumped Bodies", 10 April-12 August 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction to the Sukkar Family Collection / Lydia Yee

Creating ourselves as a Work of Art / Emily Butler

Self-Portrait as the Billy Goat

Mirror Image? / Frances Borzello

The End of Love

Self Image / Nicholas Cullinan

The Upset Bucket

Waste Management / Glenn Adamson

Bumped Bodies

The Body and Its Works, Haunted by Desire / Amelia Jones

Radical Figuration and the Experience of Being / Maria Sukkar in conversation with Iwona Blazwick

Afterword / Prue O'Day

From Surrealist selfies to feminist self-portraiture, the ISelf Collection explores identity and the human condition through the central themes of birth, death, sexuality, love, pain and joy. Taking the display of the collection at Whitechapel Gallery as its springboard, this book looks generally at the question of the self in modern and contemporary art, and the ways in which artists are thinking about being and identity as an individual, in relation to others, to society and the wider world. Featuring works by a world-class roster of artists including Francis Alys, Fiona Banner, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Alex Katz, Sarah Lucas, Mike Nelson, Cindy Sherman, John Stezaker and Wolfgang Tillmans, this fully illustrated catalogue also includes essays by Glenn Adamson, Frances Borzello, Nicholas Cullinan and Amelia Jones, as well as a selection of quotes by influential writers and theorists as chosen by some of the artists included.