Cary Leibowitz : museum show /
Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show is the first comprehensive career survey and solo museum exhibition devoted to the New York-based contemporary artist, Cary Leibowitz (b. 1963). Since the early 1990s, when he became widely known as, "Candyass," a moniker that Hilton Als writes, "becomes ye...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Contemporary Jewish Museum,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show is the first comprehensive career survey and solo museum exhibition devoted to the New York-based contemporary artist, Cary Leibowitz (b. 1963). Since the early 1990s, when he became widely known as, "Candyass," a moniker that Hilton Als writes, "becomes yet another means of deflecting criticism," Leibowitz has carried on with an interdisciplinary practice that turns a critical eye on subjects of identity, modernism, the art market, queer politics, and kitsch. In his comically self-effacing text-based works, for which he is best known, he mixes his obsessions with popular culture and fine art with elements of social commentary, self-loathing, institutional critique, and stand-up comedy. His work manages to seamlessly blend comedy and neurosis in such a way that questions about appearance and identity become a running commentary on the self/other.-- From the CJM website, last viewed 20170127. |
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| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, on view January 26, 2016-June 25, 2017. Show curated and catalog edited by Anastasia James. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy has "Hello my name is" convention label signed as Geo.W. Leibowitz (actually Cary) affixed under half-title name. |
| Physical Description: | 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780991641147 0991641140 |