Overlay

Contemporary Art and Art of Prehistory

Lucy R. Lippard

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A groundbreaking look at the parallels between contemporary art and prehistoric art, by the author of Mixed Blessings.
This book's strength lies in the depth of the author's commitment--her dual loyalty to tradition and modernity and her effort to restore the broken connection between the two.
-- Suzi Gablik, New York Times Book Review
Back in print, Overlay is Lucy Lippard's classic book on contemporary art and its connection to prehistoric sites and symbols. Viewed by critics, artists, art historians, and students as the essential text on how prehistoric images have been "overlayed" onto contemporary art by today's artists, Overlay is for anyone interested in the possibility of reintegrating art into the fabric of society as a whole, as in prehistoric times.

From megalithic monuments such as Stonehenge to Richard Long's minimalism, from the earliest examples of cave drawings to Ana Mendieta's Cuban site art, from the matriarchal fertility rituals of the ancient Celts to Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, Lippard shows a continuum in the forms, materials, symbols, and imagery that artists have employed for thousands of years.

Lavishly illustrated with over 320 black-and-white photographs and 8 pages of color images, Overlay includes the work of artists Carl Andre, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, Charles Simonds, Mary Beth Edelson, Anna Sofaer, Michelle Stuart, Sol LeWitt, Ad Reinhardt, Alice Aycock, Nancy Holt, Emily Carr, Dennis Oppenheim, and many others.

Lucy R. Lippard is one of America's most provocative and influential writers, curators, and art activists.  She has written frequently for publications such as the Village Voice, Z Magazine, and Art in America and has published numerous other articles and books, including Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans, and The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art (The New Press).
Art Critism
Spring 1995
paperback
8 x 9 1/4, 272 pages
978-1-56584-238-0

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