Period Eye: Karen Kilimnik's Fancy Pictures
To accompany the exhibition the Serpentine Gallery has published Period Eye: Karen Kilimnik's Fancy Pictures, an engaging conversation on the work of Karen Kilimnik by Scott Rothkopf and Meredith Martin.
Rothkopf and Martin explore different facets of Kilimnik’s work, focusing in particular on the specific sources for her paintings, the contemporaneity of her paint handling and her singular way of installing artworks in decorative surrounds.
Scott Rothkopf is a senior editor of Artforum. An art historian and critic, he curated the exhibition Mel Bochner Photographs, 1966–1969 (2002) and co-organised Pierre Huyghe’s This is Not a Time for Dreaming (2004), both for Harvard University Art Museums. He is completing a book on Surrealism in America in the 1960s for Yale University Press.
Meredith Martin is an art historian specialising in eighteenth-century European art and architecture. She is a postdoctoral fellow in the art history department at Columbia University and will join the faculty of Wellesley College in 2008. She is currently writing a book entitled Dairy Queens: Pastoral Architecture and Patronage from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette.
Price £3.95
