Research Catalog

Title

Creating ourselves : the self in art : works from the ISelf Collection / edited by Emily Butler with Candy Stobbs.

Publication

• London : Whitechapel Gallery, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Butler, Emily
• Stobbs, Candy

Description

219 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm

Summary

From Surrealist selfies to feminist self-portraiture, the ISelf Collection explores identity and the human condition through the central themes of birth, death, sexuality, love, pain and joy. Taking the display of the collection at Whitechapel Gallery as its springboard, this book looks generally at the question of the self in modern and contemporary art, and the ways in which artists are thinking about being and identity as an individual, in relation to others, to society and the wider world. Featuring works by a world-class roster of artists including Francis Alys, Fiona Banner, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Alex Katz, Sarah Lucas, Mike Nelson, Cindy Sherman, John Stezaker and Wolfgang Tillmans, this fully illustrated catalogue also includes essays by Glenn Adamson, Frances Borzello, Nicholas Cullinan and Amelia Jones, as well as a selection of quotes by influential writers and theorists as chosen by some of the artists included.000Exhibition: Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom (27.04.-20.08.2017).

Alternative Title

Creating ourselves : works from the ISelf Collection : the self in art

Subjects

• Art, Modern
• Identity (Psychology) in art
• Identity (Psychology) in art > Exhibitions
• 2000-2099
• Self (Philosophy) in art > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Self-perception in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Artists include: Ai Weiwei ; Pawel Althamer ; Francis Alÿs ; Ida Applebroog ; Fiona Banner ; Maria Bartuszová ; Lynda Benglis ; Walead Beshty ; Huma Bhabha ; Alexandra Bircken ; Karla Black ; Michaël Borremans ; Louise Bourgeois ; Martin Boyce ; Bill Brandt ; Gyula Halász Brassaï ; André Breton ; Don Brown ; Gillian Carnegie ; Alice Channer ; Jake and Dinos Chapman ; Claire Fontaine ; Ruth Claxton ; Tony Cragg ; Matthew Darbyshire ; Enrico David ; Berlinde De Bruyckere ; Thomas Demand ; Tiane Doan na Champassak ; William Eggleston ; Tracey Emin ; Geoffrey Farmer ; Ceal Floyer ; Ellen Gallagher ; Gilbert & George ; Mona Hatoum ; Georg Herold ; Kati Horna ; Chantal Joffe ; Rashid Johnson ; Alex Katz ; Mary Kelly ; Leon Kossoff ; Gabriel Kuri ; Yayoi Kusama ; Jim Lambie ; Maria Lassnig ; Linder ; Sarah Lucas ; Man Ray ; Aditya Mandayam ; Mark Manders ; Paul McCarthy ; Alice Neel ; Mike Nelson ; Damián Ortega ; Seb Patane ; R. H. Quaytman ; Raqs Media Collective ; Pipilotti Rist ; Ugo Rondinone ; Prem Sahib ; Bojan Šarčević ; Wilhem Sasnal ; Wael Shawky ; Cindy Sherma ; Daniel Silver ; Daniel Sinsel ; John Stezaker ; Rudolf Stingel ; Catherine Story ; Rayyane Tabet ; Fiona Tan ; Wolfgang Tillmans ; Luc Tuymans ; Nicola Tyson ; Paloma Varga Weisz ; Erika Verzutti ; Rebecca Warren ; Gillian Wearing ; Richard Wentworth ; Cathy Wilkes ; Akram Zaatari.
• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition in four chapters at the Whitechapel Gallery: ISelf Collection, Self-Portrait as the Billy Goat, 27 April - 20 August 2017 ; ISelf Collection, The End of Love, 30 August - 26 November 2017 ; ISelf Collection, The Upset Bucket, 5 December 2017 - 1 April 2018 ; ISelf Collection, Bumped Bodies, 10 April - 12 August 2018"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 200).

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction to the Sukkar Family Collection / Lydia Yee -- Creating Ourselves as a Work of Art / Emily Butler -- ch. I Self-Portrait as the Billy Goat -- Mirror Image? / Frances Borzello -- ch. II The End of Love -- Self Image / Nicholas Cullinan -- ch. III The Upset Bucket -- Waste Management / Glenn Adamson -- ch. IV Bumped Bodies -- The Body and Its Works, Haunted by Desire / Amelia Jones -- Radical Figuration and the Experience of Being / Maria Sukkar in conversation with Iwona Blazwick -- Afterword / Prue O'Day.

Call Number

JQF 18-823

ISBN

• 9780854882571
• 085488257X

LCCN

2017430882

OCLC

989056315

Title

Creating ourselves : the self in art : works from the ISelf Collection / edited by Emily Butler with Candy Stobbs.

Publisher

London : Whitechapel Gallery, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 200).

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Butler, Emily, editor.

Stobbs, Candy, editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-823