Presented in a pseudo-autobiographical style that offers poetic musings to create meandering, off-centered texts, this volume by Frances Stark brings together many of her texts for the first time, including essays on artists and her infamous art + text column. Stark's writing is not specifically located in visual art, but rather rooted in the condition of contemporary life--encountering along the way the literary tradition, music, and philosophy. Often humorous and always highly readable, Stark's Collected Writing also includes facsimiles of The Unspeakable Compromise of the Portable Work of Art as well as specially designed pages by the author, for a truly unique experience in the world of artist's writings.

Frances Stark Collected Writing: 1993-2003

Arts & Photography

Higgs, Matthew

Stark, Frances

History & Criticism

Book Works

In the film and photographic series Pine Flat constructed over a three year period, Sharon Lockhart addresses the experience of an American childhood, using the stunning landscape of America's Sierra Nevada Mountains to bring home the close relationships of children with their natural surroundings. Lockhart began by constructing a portrait studio in a small rural community, and extending an open invitation to local children, and then by immersing herself in their environment and noting the complexity of their interactions. Her highly descriptive, almost painterly portraits, taken over the course of several years, abjure narration for the pleasure of the gaze and the notion of temporality. The studio remains a constant, its black backdrop, cement floor and natural lighting; a theatrical setting that allows the children to develop a different kind of relationship to the camera. Those stills stand in stark contrast to the pictorialism of a series showing the community's majestic natural surroundings, and to the portraits on 16mm film that accompany them, which are both literally and figuratively moving.

Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat

Halbreich, Kathy

Norden, Linda

Individual Artists

Charta

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