STURTEVANT
Drawing Double Reversal

Sturtevant was a figure of outstanding significance for the art history of the second half of the 20th century. Research into her graphic oeuvre reveals that her early drawings from the 1960s are key to understanding the artist's radical conceptual work—especially her drawings from 1965 and 1966, the so-called "composite drawings." Over the course of the past 50 years, Sturtevant has developed what is perhaps the most radical practice of her generation, determined by a rigorous and insistent conceptual approach. She was concerned with more than the mere reception of art; her aim was to change mental attitudes. She disconcerted and provoked the spectator and the art world in general to equal degrees by repeating original works by contemporary artists. Astonishingly quickly after the “originals” are made, she used them as source and catalyst, her intentions being to “expand and develop our current notions of aesthetics, probe originality, and investigate the relation of origins to originality and open space for new thinking” (Sturtevant).

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Antonia Hoerschelmann, Udo Kittelmann, Mario Kramer, Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Texts by Mario Kramer, Michael Lobel, Sturtevant.

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Published by JRP|Ringier
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