Reference retrospective monograph:
a complete overview of Lynda Benglis' work and life from the late 1960s to the present day, with more than 350 illustrations, about 20 historical or commissioned essays, an interview, famous and unseen archival material (magazine articles, photographs, letters, installation shots), and a complete chronology.
“Seeing Lynda Benglis's ad in
Artforum in 1974 was one of the most
pivotal moments of my career. I was in college in Buffalo & even the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery which was one of the few local places to
buy the magazine (and right across from where I went to school), had
ripped out that page in the issues they were selling
(I must have bought mine in NYC). She kicked ass!”
Cindy ShermanLynda Benglis (born in 1941 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, lives and works in New York), one of
America's most important artists, a leader of Post
Minimalism along with Richard Serra,
Eva Hesse and Bruce Nauman, has explored in her work a wide range of techniques and mediums, from wax
abstract painting, to latex, polyurethane or metal
sculpture, through
video and
performance footage.
This formal diversity expresses a complex and radical thinking about body,
gender identity, representation of women and male dominance, beyond her
feminist icon status since a series of sulphurous advertisements published with
Robert Morris in the 1970s, including the famous and controversial ad in
Artforum featuring her aggressively posed with a giant dildo and wearing only a pair of sunglasses.
