Main entry:

Magor, Liz, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

Subject to change : writings and interviews / Liz Magor.

Edition:

First English edition.

Publication:

Montreal : Concordia University Press, 2022.

Description:

xxix, 373 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Text/context: writings by Canadian artists

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Worrying the World of Things / Philip Monk -- What People Do for Work -- Production/ Reproduction -- Like a Tune -- The Most She Weighed, The Least She Weighed -- Four Notable Bakers -- Liz Magor in Discussion with Ian Carr-Harris -- Pulp Fiction Presents the Special Collection -- On Mercer Union, Installation, Palaces, and Shelter -- Auto Portrait -- An Artist's Throughts on Conservation and Curatorial Issues -- Statement for Siberian Husky -- Home and Native Land -- February 20, 1864 -- House Plant -- Maple Leaf Confectionery -- White House Paint -- Messenger -- Military Through the Ages -- Blue Students -- The Forces of Wolfe and Montcalm -- On Retreats and Fake Dogs -- The Lenticular -- Faint -- On Rita McBride -- Ancient Affections -- Therese Veh, 1902-1986 -- About Blankets; Kings and Queens -- Burn, Burn, Burn -- About Lethbridge Telegram -- Statement for The Capilano Review -- Poodles -- To Liz Mulholland -- Out Here -- A Conversation with Liz Magor -- Comment with Regard to the Sculptural Work Cupped -- To Ask Sheila Heti -- Stonecroft Lecture -- On an Eight-Sided Tlingit Box -- Buckle -- What Does Ambition Look Like, And What Form Does Failure Take? -- Entertaining the Contradiction -- Zero Things: Liz Magor Interviewed by Lee Ann Norman -- Spring/ Summer 2020.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"Subject to Change: Writings and Interviews brings together catalogue statements, essays, conversations, lecture notes, communications with gallerists and writers, and unpublished writings by Liz Magor, of the most important contemporary artists of the last fifty years. In addition to writings spanning more than four decades, the book features a preface by Magor, as well as an introductory essay by critic and curator Philip Monk. A sculptor who replicates quotidian objects, often combining them with found ephemera or complicating their shape or size, Liz Magor prompts viewers of her sculptures to endow them with stories and histories of their own making. As a writer, Magor uses narrative to make sense of her own work, but she also returns to themes over the course of her career including subject/object relations and transformations; training systems for artists; consumption and commodification; human attachment and relationships; and complexities of time, place, and situation, particularly her own as a feminist artist in a settler-colonial society. Subject to Change is essential reading for anyone interested in Magor's practice, as well as broader questions in art since the 1970s."-- From publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781988111339 paperback
1988111331 paperback

Subject:

Magor, Liz, 1948-
Artists Canada.
Art, Canadian 21st century.
Sculpture.
Art.
Artistes Canada.
Art canadien 21e siècle.
Art, Canadian
Artists
Canada

Form/genre:

works of art.
Art.
Illustrated works.
Œuvres d'art.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Text/context (Montréal, Québec)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318473
Call No.: 318473
Copy: 1
Status: Available