{"product_id":"linda-lighton-love-and-war-a-fifty-year-survey-1975-2025-9783777444291","title":"Linda Lighton: Love and War: A Fifty Year Survey, 1975-2025","description":"\u003cb\u003eArt and activism: the subversive ceramic sculptures of Linda Lighton.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For fifty years, American artist Linda Lighton has created a powerful body of subversive ceramic sculptures that explore desire in all its complex forms. Her work uses wit and seduction as conceptual weaponry to mine the relationship between sex, power, and politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Lighton: Love and War\u003c\/i\u003e is a richly illustrated monograph that gives a comprehensive overview of Linda Lighton's pioneering career. The book delves into the ways that her highly original and often rebellious work pushes the boundaries of ceramic sculpture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Accompanied by new scholarship on the artist's practice, this publication situates her sculptures--which use a feminist visual language to address social issues, such as gun violence, environmental degradation, and gender conformity--within the context of broader art historical developments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSydney Stutterheim\u003c\/b\u003e is an art historian, curator, and writer whose research focuses on postwar and contemporary art. In addition to serving as lead curator for\u003ci\u003e Linda Lighton: Love and War\u003c\/i\u003e at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eArtist, Audience, Accomplice: Ethics and Authorship in Art of the 1970s and 1980s \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePoetic Practical: The Unrealized Work of Chris Burden\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. \u003cb\u003eRose Dergan\u003c\/b\u003e is director of research for Gagosian worldwide. She is coeditor of the monographs \u003ci\u003eJohn Currin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCecily Brown\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRichard Prince: American Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hirmer Verlag GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51453841998098,"sku":"9783777444291","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_118ba698-2c7f-493e-a8f3-0e44d4bffcb7.jpg?v=1751981079","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/linda-lighton-love-and-war-a-fifty-year-survey-1975-2025-9783777444291","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}