Mining For Gold: Selected Writings (1979–1996)

More than any artist-writer of his generation, Thomas Lawson has the makeup of a true journalist. He is an embedded correspondent, a polemical editorialist, sending his first-person dispatches from the front lines. He knows the terrain from many vantage points: He is an artist, publisher, occasional curator and academic (current dean at CalArts) in addition to being a writer. Reacting to the ambient hegemony of late modernism and its avant-garde myths, Lawson is determined to take sides, to make critical distinctions, attempting along the way to enunciate a progressive position from the very heart of an increasingly reactionary milieu. This collection of essays focuses on the emergence of appropriation and includes such seminal texts as “Last Exit: Painting.” Mining for Gold provides a comprehensive narrative of some of the most trenchant ideological quarrels to have surfaced from within the art world of the 1980s.

Details

Personalities

Lawson Thomas

Type

Book

Place of publication

Zürich

Publisher

JRP|Ringier

Year

2005

Number of pages

240 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9782940271221

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

No

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

709.203 Law

Volumes

1

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