{"id":118076,"date":"2020-01-09T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T17:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=118076"},"modified":"2020-01-23T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T00:03:53","slug":"guinness-publishes-first-book-on-the-art-of-rosemarie-trockel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=118076","title":{"rendered":"Guinness publishes first book on the art of Rosemarie Trockel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Katherine Guinness, assistant professor and director of art history, published a new book, \u201cSchizogenesis: The Art of Rosemarie Trockel\u201d \u2013 a deep dive into the art, feminist principles and body politics of Rosemarie Trockel, a German conceptual artist widely regarded as one of the leading artists of her generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI’ve been working on Rosemarie Trockel for more than a\ndecade,\u201d Guinness said, \u201cand I fell instantly and inexplicably in love with her\nwork the moment I saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She continued, \u201cThis is the first academic monograph on Trockel, who is widely regarded as one of the most important living artists today. Her work is often thought to be confusing or unintelligible, but my project delves deep into her feminist art, revealing her to be a thinker who challenges and transforms the possibilities of bodily representation and identity.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guinness named the volume \u201cSchizogenesis\u201d after the\nbiological process referring to a form of asexual reproduction in which new\norganisms are created, but no original is left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She uses the principle to demonstrate how Trockel\ncontinually reimagines her art, which has spanned drawings, collage,\ninstallation art, knitting, ceramics, videos, furniture, clothing and books,\nand has drawn from art history, philosophy, theology and the natural sciences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A museum-goer examines an exhibition of Trockel’s work at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. Photo courtesy of Moderna Museet.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In a review of the book, Gregory Williams, the author of \u201cPermission\nto Laugh: Humor and Politics in Contemporary German Art,\u201d wrote that \u201cGuinness\u2019s\nguiding concept of schizogenesis ingeniously frames Rosemarie Trockel\u2019s\nmultilayered practice in terms of split production and rapid regeneration,\nmetaphors of procreation that simultaneously evoke destruction and violence. Written\nin lively, witty prose, this book does justice to Trockel\u2019s complex works by\nthinking of them as \u2018theoretical objects\u2019 that demand Guinness\u2019s extended,\nprobing analyses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, Guinness was particularly excited that the book\u2019s\neditors allowed her to incorporate research that branched out in as many\ndirections as Trockel\u2019s art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was lucky enough to keep a lot of weirder stuff in,\u201d she\nsaid. \u201cMy editor and reviewers were very generous, and so my research practice \u2013\nwhich spiraled out to include mermaids, Pinocchio, Brigitte Bardot, Snoopy (the\ncartoon dog!) and obscure Barbra Streisand films \u2013 was all allowed to stay in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The practice paid off. Reviewers of the book note that Guinness\u2019s wide-ranging use of popular culture channels the same genre-bending spirit of Trockel\u2019s own work, in which everyday objects are used as tools to take a critical look at contemporary society \u2013 from gender roles and societal structures to issues of animal ethics and artistic elitism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Schizogenesis” was published in December 2019 through the University of Minnesota Press. It was partially funded by a Millard Meiss Publication Fund grant offered through the College Art Association, an award that supports the publication of “projects of the highest scholarly and intellectual merit.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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