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Liza Lou’s beaded wonderland, a book review

Thirty years after the advent of Pop art, Liza Lou beaded her way into art history, making pop-iconic objects and installations with miraculous numbers of glass beads applied to armatures of plaster, and in some cases, real live things like stoves. Lou labored mightily, and alone at first. Her “Kitchen,” a 168 sq. ft. beaded homage to the domestic took five years to make and 30 million beads (1991-96).

Dana Schutz, the book

Dana Schutz‘s new monograph covering works from 2001-2009 is a nice coffee table book.  With 100 color plates and two short pieces of writing (taking up a scant 9 pages), the book is not a scholarly look at the artist’s work.  She surely deserves that book and it will probably come, say with a big museum show. Meanwhile, for Schutz fans, this book is pure mind-bending eye candy.