Nancy Holt: Sightlines
This is the first monographic study of Nancy Holt, the visionary American artist. Edited by Alena J. Williams, this publication was developed in close collaboration with the artist.
Holt’s wide-ranging body of work since the late 1960s includes major works of sculpture, installations, film, and video. A comprehensive representation of her working process in both word and image, this book illuminates Holt’s interest in physical space and reveals how the geographic variety and boundlessness of the American landscape afforded the artist numerous opportunities to develop large-scale projects beyond the confines of New York City’s gallery walls.
Sightlines includes essays by a distinguished group of contributors - including Pamela M. Lee, Lucy R. Lippard, Ines Schaber, Matthew Coolidge, and the editor Alena J. Williams. Together they chart Holt’s trajectory from her initial experiments with sound, light, and industrial materials to major site interventions and environmental sculpture. James Meyer’s valuable interview with Holt and Julia Alderson’s illustrated chronology expand our knowledge of this groundbreaking artist and the crucial contexts in which she worked.
More than twenty original writings by the artist and a selection of her concrete poetry, documentary photographs, and preparatory drawings reveal Holt’s revolutionary concepts of space, time, optics, and scale.
Published on occasion of the 2010-2012 touring retrospective Nancy Holt: Sightlines
Authors
Matthew Coolidge, Pamela M. Lee, Lucy R. Lippard, James Meyer, Ines Schaber, Alena Williams
Editor
Alena Williams
Specifications
University of California Press, 2015
ISBN 9780520282360
Paperback
296 pages
241 x 279 mm / 9.5 x 1 x 11 inches
English
Out of print
$275
This is the first monographic study of Nancy Holt, the visionary American artist. Edited by Alena J. Williams, this publication was developed in close collaboration with the artist.
Holt’s wide-ranging body of work since the late 1960s includes major works of sculpture, installations, film, and video. A comprehensive representation of her working process in both word and image, this book illuminates Holt’s interest in physical space and reveals how the geographic variety and boundlessness of the American landscape afforded the artist numerous opportunities to develop large-scale projects beyond the confines of New York City’s gallery walls.
Sightlines includes essays by a distinguished group of contributors - including Pamela M. Lee, Lucy R. Lippard, Ines Schaber, Matthew Coolidge, and the editor Alena J. Williams. Together they chart Holt’s trajectory from her initial experiments with sound, light, and industrial materials to major site interventions and environmental sculpture. James Meyer’s valuable interview with Holt and Julia Alderson’s illustrated chronology expand our knowledge of this groundbreaking artist and the crucial contexts in which she worked.
More than twenty original writings by the artist and a selection of her concrete poetry, documentary photographs, and preparatory drawings reveal Holt’s revolutionary concepts of space, time, optics, and scale.
Published on occasion of the 2010-2012 touring retrospective Nancy Holt: Sightlines
Authors
Matthew Coolidge, Pamela M. Lee, Lucy R. Lippard, James Meyer, Ines Schaber, Alena Williams
Editor
Alena Williams
Specifications
University of California Press, 2015
ISBN 9780520282360
Paperback
296 pages
241 x 279 mm / 9.5 x 1 x 11 inches
English
Out of print
$275
This is the first monographic study of Nancy Holt, the visionary American artist. Edited by Alena J. Williams, this publication was developed in close collaboration with the artist.
Holt’s wide-ranging body of work since the late 1960s includes major works of sculpture, installations, film, and video. A comprehensive representation of her working process in both word and image, this book illuminates Holt’s interest in physical space and reveals how the geographic variety and boundlessness of the American landscape afforded the artist numerous opportunities to develop large-scale projects beyond the confines of New York City’s gallery walls.
Sightlines includes essays by a distinguished group of contributors - including Pamela M. Lee, Lucy R. Lippard, Ines Schaber, Matthew Coolidge, and the editor Alena J. Williams. Together they chart Holt’s trajectory from her initial experiments with sound, light, and industrial materials to major site interventions and environmental sculpture. James Meyer’s valuable interview with Holt and Julia Alderson’s illustrated chronology expand our knowledge of this groundbreaking artist and the crucial contexts in which she worked.
More than twenty original writings by the artist and a selection of her concrete poetry, documentary photographs, and preparatory drawings reveal Holt’s revolutionary concepts of space, time, optics, and scale.
Published on occasion of the 2010-2012 touring retrospective Nancy Holt: Sightlines
Authors
Matthew Coolidge, Pamela M. Lee, Lucy R. Lippard, James Meyer, Ines Schaber, Alena Williams
Editor
Alena Williams
Specifications
University of California Press, 2015
ISBN 9780520282360
Paperback
296 pages
241 x 279 mm / 9.5 x 1 x 11 inches
English
Out of print
$275