Nov
27
Sherrie Levine’s Attack on Rietveld
November 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
by Peter Zimmerman
Catherine Ingraham’s essay that accompanies the 1999 Sherrie Levine / Joost van Oss collaborative exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York City highlights three major facets of their collaborative works of appropriation. However, instead of being merely commentaries on the originals by Gerrit Rietveld, Levine and Oss re-write, and thereby historically [...]
Nov
24
Barbara Kruger’s Words of Prey
November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by Peter Zimmerman
Art does not exist and is not created in a vacuum; rather, it is constantly in negotiation with ideological shifts, cultural re-mappings, and historical motions. Rosalind Krauss, in her essay (humorously) titled “Cindy Sherman: Untitled” describes the two purported Universal Truths of the artist, as proposed by Emile Zola: that X is an [...]