Leaves of Grass: Mira Dayal on Michelle Stuart’s books
Mira Dayal, Artforum
February 2020
Scroll was first used as a verb in the 1600s to describe a particular method of writing. Its current definition, having more to do with the navigation of text than with its creation, was introduced in the early 1970s, at the same time that Michelle Stuart finished her first banner-like frottage of a patch of ground—in this case, in Woodstock, New York. […]