Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between
By (Author) Sharon Irish
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
22nd April 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Individual artists, art monographs
Gender studies: women and girls
709.2
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 18mm
Description
In this critical examination of Suzanne Lacy, Sharon Irish surveys Lacy's art from 1972 to the present, demonstrating the pivotal roles that Lacy has had in public art, feminist theory, and community organizing. Lacy initially used her own bodyor animal organsto visually depict psychological states or social conditions in photographs, collages, and installations. In the late 1970s she turned to organizing large groups of people into art eventsincluding her most famous work, The Crystal Quilt, a 1987 performance broadcast live on PBS and featuring hundreds of women in Minneapolisand pioneered a new genre of public art.
Author Bio
Sharon Irish holds a joint appointment in the School of Architecture and the Community Informatics Initiative/Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. She is the author of Cass Gilbert, Architect: Modern Traditionalist.
