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Amy Sillman faux pas : Selected writings and drawings /

A key figure in the New York art scene, Amy Sillman is renowned for her singular approach to painting and drawing. Her writings extend a practice that challenges traditions and theoretical frameworks with criticality and humor, and advocates subjectivity : she reevaluates Abstract Expressionism with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sillman, Amy (Author)
Other Authors: Tillman, Lynne (writer of foreword.), Houette, Charlotte (Editor), Lancien-Guilberteau, Franc̦ois (Editor), Thorel, Benjamin (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Paris : After 8 Books, [2020]
Subjects:
Sillman, Amy.
Art, Modern > 20th century.
Art, Modern > 21st century.
Artists' writings.
Art, Modern.
1900-2099
Table of Contents:
  • Lines, gaps, shapes, strokes, jokes, colors, holes... / by Lynne Tillman
  • Having a voice : A conversation with Amy Sillman
  • On color
  • Further notes on shape
  • Meaning of symbols
  • More meaning of my symbols (Part 2)
  • Unpresidented times
  • Drawings for the Project, DYKWTCA (Do You Know Where The Children Are?)
  • AbEx and disco balls : In defense of abstract expressionism II
  • Notes on the diagram
  • Seating Charts drawings
  • Shit happens : Notes on awkwardness
  • Rejective verse
  • Breakup letter
  • Train of thought
  • A few remarks on Rachel Harrison's use of color
  • Some thoughts on John Chamberlain
  • Why Amelie von Wulffen is funny
  • Dear Maria Lassnig
  • The writings of Carroll Dunham
  • Laura Owens
  • Delacroix : The sullied enlightenment of the body
  • Philip Guston : From garbage cans to God
  • Nine innings : Notes of a color commentator : On nine works by Louise Fishman
  • Index of drawings
  • Acknowledgements.