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DAVE HICKEY : 25 WOMEN : ESSAYS ON THEIR ART

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Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2016 · Education

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Film by Eric Minh Swenson. 

The University of Chicago Press + Artbook / D.A.P. @ Hauser & Wirth & Schimmel invite you to celebrate the publication of 25 Women: Essays on Their Art and for a discussion with author Dave Hickey introduced by Dr. Julia Friedman.

Calloused, insightful, cantankerous or illuminating Dave Hickey’s writing does nothing if not illicit a visceral response. On the heels of his recently published collection of essays 25 Women: Essays on Their Art (2016, University of Chicago Press) and to celebrate the landmark exhibition Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture By Women 1947-2016, Artbook and Hauser Wirth & Schimmel are pleased to welcome Dave Hickey Thursday, May 12 at 7pm for a discussion of 25 Women with an introduction by Dr. Julia Friedman and book signing to follow.

More than a collection of essays, 25 Women constitutes a body of work that reflects Hickey’s deep and prolonged engagement with influential contemporary artists including Roni Horn, Mary Heilmann and Revolution in the Making artist Lynda Benglis. With his trademark wit and raucous eloquence, Hickey’s writing cuts to the heart of deciphering the creative process, questioning institutional accountability and criticism’s role in generating thought provoking discussion through controversy.

“…I am an adept of difficulty,” Hickey writes in his introduction. “I love the mystery of gazing across the craquelure of gender gaps that still deploy themselves like canyons across our provisional utopia.” 25 Women: Essays on Their Art crystalizes that gaze into a shimmering collection of writing by a critic who has spent his 50-year career in constant conversation with women.

Speakers

Dave Hickey is a distinguished American art and cultural critic and the author of Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993), Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (1997), and Pirates and Farmers (2014) and 25 Women: Essays on Their Art (2016). He has served as executive editor of Art In America, a contributing editor for the Village Voice and as the arts editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Hickey was Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and Distinguished Professor of Criticism for the MFA Program in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico.

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Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts : http://m.huffpost.com/us/author/eric-minh-swenson/

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