Monographs, History 

Gisele Amantea's twenty-five year career is stunningly featured in this beautiful hardcover volume. Materially rich and with great attention to design and ornamentation, Amantea's installations delve into questions of history and memory, particularly as related to women. The monograph follows the evolution of her career starting with early works such as Heaven (1987) and White Folly (1988), exuberant examples of the rococo-kitsch style typical of her practice. These pieces demonstrate her interest at that time in the symbols of folk culture and the stereotypes usually associated with them. The second section features works from the late 1990s where the feminist viewpoint, which could be glimpsed in the earlier work, is strongly apparent. The last section is devoted to the artist's current practice and features hitherto unseen pieces denoting her preoccupation with the concept of barriers and the use that has been made of them by various cultures now and in the past. - from Amzon