Sherrie Maxine Levine

This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and cultures, contributors test the limits of spolia as a critical category and seek to define its specif...

This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs after Walker Evans”taken not from life but from Evans’s famous depression-era documents of rural Alabamabecame central examples in theorizing postmodernism in the visual arts in the 1980s. For the...

Although the Americanartist and conceptualphotographer Sherrie Levine (b. 1947) has been the subject of much critical discourse for the past thirty years, she has not been the subject of a comprehensive survey–until now. This handsome volume, created in close collaboration with the artist, contains ...

Blasted Allegories is a collection of writings by artists from the past ten years, a mixture of voices and styles, all addressing the issues of image, culture, and identity. In these writings, we are offered a critical investigation of postmodern culture, but without the distancing effects of tradit...

American Conceptualist Sherrie Levine (born 1947) took one of the central tenets of modernism--artistic originality--and systematically dismantled it. In 1979, she photographed pictures by master photographer Walker Evans directly out of catalogues and then exhibited them as her own; similar outrigh...