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Author Archives: Megan N. Liberty
Megan N. Liberty is the Art Books section editor at the Brooklyn Rail. Her writing on artists' books, ephemera, and graphic novels also appears in Artforum.com, Art Review, Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, LA Review of Books, NY Review of Books Daily, and elsewhere. Find her on twitter @meganlib.
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Tauba Auerbach’s Sculptural Art Books
Much like her bookworks, Auerbach’s catalogue S v Z deserves to be examined as a sculptural object before we unfold its cover and consider its contents.
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Enter the Humorously Awkward World of a “Long-Distance Cartoonist”
Brilliantly paced, Adrian Tomine’s latest graphic novel takes readers from discomfort to laughter in just a few panels.
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A Deep Dive Into Sarah Charlesworth’s Image Archive
An important aspect of Charlesworth’s practice is her longstanding engagement with publishing: she was an active writer and critic, and made several artist books and photo catalogues.
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A Digital Archive Mines the Depth of Design
The digital Letterform Archive has made nearly 1,500 objects accessible to browse online through over 9,000 high-resolution images.
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Mickalene Thomas Makes the White Cube a Domestic Oasis
Thomas’s Femmes Noires reframes the gallery space, allowing viewers to alter their behavior from what’s expected in an art institution.
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Literary Drawings Foreshadow an Apocalyptic Future
Robyn O’Neil’s oversized, multi-panel graphite drawings resemble a graphic novel told across multiple walls and rooms. This narrative storytelling makes sense, as O’Neil’s cited influences are more literary than artistic.
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The Unseen Labor of Women in Art
Sara VanDerBeek’s new print series, Women & Museums, interrogates how women occupy institutional spaces, particularly through the prominence of traditionally craft media like ceramics and textiles.
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Sol LeWitt’s Conceptual Book Art
LeWitt’s bookmaking fits squarely within his commitment to order and seriality, revealing his overall practice as a total work of art.
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Recreating Artemisia Gentileschi’s Life in Graphic Form
I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi weaves together known facts of Gentileschi’s life with the politics of art patronage.
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Redefining Identity Through Artists’ Books
The works at Center for Book Arts embrace a wide spectrum of emotions and subjectivities outside of White-centric definitions of what an “American” is.
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The Defiant Undercurrents of Feminine Art
While many of Julia Kuhl’s paintings are funny and provocative others are more troubling, alluding to the ways women’s personal, professional, and sexual boundaries often go broadly unacknowledged.