Leslie Thornton
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Leslie Thornton
W032071 | $36.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Ed. by Natalie Bell et al. Kunstverein, Nurnberg, 2020 and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2021. Published, 2022.
224 pp. 150 col. ills. 26 x 21 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783956795985
Produced on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Leslie Thornton at the MIT List Visual Arts Center [titled: Leslie Thornton: Begin Again, Again], as well as a recent solo exhibition at Kunstverein Nurnberg [titled: Leslie Thornton: GROUND] this richly illustrated volume will be the first monograph on this important artist and filmmaker, and offers essential, foundational scholarship on Thornton’s influential work in film and video. Thornton’s early encounters with experimental, structuralist, and cinéma vérité traditions fueled her iconoclastic take on the moving image and gave shape to her practice of weaving together her own footage and voice with archival film and audio. In part through her forceful and dynamic use of sound, Thornton exposes the limits of language and vision in her works, while acknowledging the ways that language and vision nevertheless remain central to scientific discourse and narrative in general. Her work consistently interrogates modes of representation and the violence of looking, pushing beyond critiques of the gaze to consider biases in perception, or the way voice and sound can undermine an otherwise dominant visual narrative.
Subject Headings: Western Art -- United States -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 -- Video/Film -- Women Artists --
Artist(s): Thornton, Leslie
W032071 | $36.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Ed. by Natalie Bell et al. Kunstverein, Nurnberg, 2020 and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2021. Published, 2022.
224 pp. 150 col. ills. 26 x 21 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783956795985
Produced on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Leslie Thornton at the MIT List Visual Arts Center [titled: Leslie Thornton: Begin Again, Again], as well as a recent solo exhibition at Kunstverein Nurnberg [titled: Leslie Thornton: GROUND] this richly illustrated volume will be the first monograph on this important artist and filmmaker, and offers essential, foundational scholarship on Thornton’s influential work in film and video. Thornton’s early encounters with experimental, structuralist, and cinéma vérité traditions fueled her iconoclastic take on the moving image and gave shape to her practice of weaving together her own footage and voice with archival film and audio. In part through her forceful and dynamic use of sound, Thornton exposes the limits of language and vision in her works, while acknowledging the ways that language and vision nevertheless remain central to scientific discourse and narrative in general. Her work consistently interrogates modes of representation and the violence of looking, pushing beyond critiques of the gaze to consider biases in perception, or the way voice and sound can undermine an otherwise dominant visual narrative.
Subject Headings: Western Art -- United States -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 -- Video/Film -- Women Artists --
Artist(s): Thornton, Leslie
