Exploring diverse cultural representations, this book delves into the performance of mourning across various mediums. It analyzes a range of texts, including a poignant film by an AIDS patient and the remnants of the Rose theatre. Additionally, it examines grief through the lens of Caravaggio and Holbein's paintings, the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas hearings, and Freud's patient Anna O, highlighting the intricate ways cultures express and process loss.
The rich diversity of art informed by feminism since the 1960s.
Pipilotti Rist is among the world's best-known artists working with video. Her multi-screen installations have a dream-like quality as, for example, a beautiful young woman (the artist herself) cavorts in fantastic seascapes or surreal jungles. This monograph explores the artist and her work. It features: a discussion of Rist's work in relation to notions of Utopia; an examination of Rist's innovation in video technology in the creation of a new female image; an exploration of the psychoanalytical implications of one video work, Absolutions (Pipilotti's Mistakes) (1988); Artist's Choice, for which the artist has selected two selections from the poet Anne Sexton and novelist Richard Brautigan; and Artist's Writings - Rist's descriptions of her dreams, highly influential in the realization of her imagery, are set alongside a homage to video pioneer Nam June Paik.