Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake
2021
Published by Princeton University Press23 x 27.5 cm252 pagesHardbackISBN 9780691220376
One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women’s bodies and their representation throughout her career, until her untimely death in 1993.
Wilke established a uniquely feminist iconography in virtually all of the mediums she engaged with – painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance art – and offered a life-affirming expression of vitality and bodily pleasure in her work.
Published on the occasion of ‘Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake’ at Pulitzer Art Foundation, St. Louis (4 June 2021 – 16 January 2022), the first major survey of Hannah Wilke’s work in over a decade, this book includes essays by Glenn Adamson, Connie Butler and Tamara Schenkenberg, and responses to Wilke’s work by contemporary artists Hayv Kahraman, Nadia Myre, Jeanine Oleson and Catherine Opie.