Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith
Hardback
h280 x 240mm - 144pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
9781848223912
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Ellen Gallagher (b. 1965) is one of the most celebrated painters of her generation, coming to prominence in the mid-1990s in the wake of the so-called ' culture wars' and the art world' s controversial embrace of identity-politics and multiculturalism. In this in-depth look at her oeuvre, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith unpacks the complexities of her richly layered paintings, examining themes such as identity, race, displacement and the ecological environment, which Gallagher has explored throughout her work. The author takes the reader from Gallagher' s early years - looking at her formative influences - through her engagement, from the late 1990s on, with the inherited modernist forms of the monochrome and the grid and with the violence and division at the root of modernism itself. Also explored are her phantasmagoric explorations of oceanic life, which draw on the discoveries of natural science, the traumatic history of the Atlantic slave trade and the speculative fictions of Afrofuturism. For anyone interested in contemporary art and the ways particular artists are expanding its borders, in form and content, this is essential reading.

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Gillian Carnegie
Guillermo Kuitca
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Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith is a critic and associate professor in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore at University College Dublin. In addition to numerous publications on literature in the Irish language his writing on contemporary art includes essays on the work of Lutz Bacher, Cecily Brown, Marlene Dumas, Douglas Gordon and Steve McQueen. A contributor to Afterall, Artforum, Frieze and Mousse, he has also curated exhibitions in Dublin, London, Amsterdam and New York and was a juror for the 2005 Turner Prize.
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ISBN-13: 9781848223912
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 280mm
Width: 240mm
Pages: 144

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