Linda Lighton: Love and War - by Sydney Stutterheim & Rose Dergan (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Art and activism: the subversive ceramic sculptures of Linda Lighton.

For fifty years, American artist Linda Lighton has created a powerful body of subversive ceramic sculptures that explore desire in all its complex forms. Her work uses wit and seduction as conceptual weaponry to mine the relationship between sex, power, and politics.

Linda Lighton: Love and War is a richly illustrated monograph that gives a comprehensive overview of Linda Lighton's pioneering career. The book delves into the ways that her highly original and often rebellious work pushes the boundaries of ceramic sculpture.

Accompanied by new scholarship on the artist's practice, this publication situates her sculptures--which use a feminist visual language to address social issues, such as gun violence, environmental degradation, and gender conformity--within the context of broader art historical developments.

About the Author

Sydney Stutterheim is an art historian, curator, and writer whose research focuses on postwar and contemporary art. In addition to serving as lead curator for Linda Lighton: Love and War at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, she is the author of Artist, Audience, Accomplice: Ethics and Authorship in Art of the 1970s and 1980s and coeditor of Poetic Practical: The Unrealized Work of Chris Burden, among other publications. Rose Dergan is director of research for Gagosian worldwide. She is coeditor of the monographs John Currin, Cecily Brown, and Richard Prince: American Prayer.