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Owens, Laura

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Owens, Laura offers a comprehensive mid-career survey of the influential American artist Laura Owens, born 1970. Published alongside a major Whitney Museum exhibition travelling to Dallas and Los Angeles, it includes an introduction by curator Scott Rothkopf, critical essays, literary texts, and short commentaries reflecting Owens's diverse interests from folk art to comics. Featuring over a thousand largely unpublished images from Owens's personal archive—such as correspondence, journals, exhibition announcements, and installation photographs—the book presents a rare, intimate view of her creative journey and artistic evolution. Readers also receive a special set of stickers to personalise their copy.
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This book is ideal for art enthusiasts, students, and scholars interested in contemporary American art and the creative processes behind a leading artist’s career. It will also appeal to readers who appreciate richly illustrated exhibition catalogues and intimate artistic biographies.

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Owens, Laura by Laura Owens and Scott Rothkopf offers a richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist’s pioneering and influential work.

Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which travels to Dallas and Los Angeles, this book features an incisive introduction by Scott Rothkopf, critical essays, literary texts, and short commentaries on a variety of subjects related to the artist’s broad interests, ranging from folk art and needlework to comics and wallpaper.

Reflections by more than twenty of Owens’s fellow artists, collaborators, assistants, dealers, family members, and friends offer an array of perspectives on her work at different periods in her life, beginning with her high school years in Ohio and ending with her current exhibition.

A rich trove of more than a thousand images, drawn from the artist’s personal archive and largely unpublished before now, includes personal correspondence, journals, academic transcripts, handwritten notes, source material, exhibition announcements, clippings, and installation photographs.

Together, all of these elements provide a rare and intimate look at how an artist might make her way in the world as well as how art gets made, movements take hold, and relationships evolve over time.

Each book includes a specially designed set of stickers that readers can use to customise their own cover.

Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art

Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(11/10/17–02/04/18)

Dallas Art Museum
(03/25/18–07/29/18)

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
(11/01/18–03/01/19)

Dallas Museum of Art
(03/25/18–07/29/18)

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
(11/04/18–03/25/19)

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Critics have praised the catalogue for its depth and intimate portrayal of Owens’s artistic process. Roberta Smith of the New York Times highlights its rich archival content including notes and correspondence, calling it a "biography in the raw" despite not serving as a conventional exhibition record. Peter Schjeldahl in the New Yorker commends it as an "astonishing catalogue," both epic and intimate, combining reproduced works, essays, memoirs, and ephemera over 663 pages. The book's design by Tiffany Malakooti has also been noted for creatively embracing Owens's personal materials.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300238129

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 February 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 1,000 color + b-w illus.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 267.0mm

Weight: 1905g

Pages: 664

About the Author

Scott Rothkopf is deputy director for programs and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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