| International Standard Book Number |
9781738901364
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| International Standard Book Number |
173890136X
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| Personal Name |
Lankton, Greer, 1958-1996, artist.
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| Title Statement |
Could it be love / Greer Lankton ; edited by Francis Schichtel, Jordan Weitzman and Nan Goldin.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
[New York, New York] : Magic Hour Press, 2025.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Distributed by ArtBook / DAP, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
139 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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| General Note |
All photographs are from the The Greer Lankton Collection.-- Colophon.
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| Summary, Etc. |
This is the first monograph on the trans visionary artist Greer Lankton (1958-96), whose lifelike doll sculptures shocked 1980s New York. Lankton's dolls, which she began making as a child and produced obsessively until her death at age 38, were a means to explore her fraught relationship with the human body. In the book's 100 photographs, all shot by Lankton herself, these figures take on a life of their own, kvetching at a party, strolling along a beach, or lounging on a stoop in the East Village. Among this extraordinary cast of oddballs--usually femme, often freakish, always radiating a glamorous confidence--we find characters of Lankton's own invention alongside well-known icons such as Divine, Coco Chanel, Andy Warhol and even Lankton herself. Born in 1958 to a Presbyterian minister in Michigan, Greer Lankton moved to New York in 1978 and became a rising star of the downtown scene. There, her deviant elegance was immortalized in photographs by Peter Hujar, David Armstrong and Lankton's close friend Nan Goldin, who described her as "one of the luminaries of the East Village renaissance: beautiful, glamorous, wild and hysterically funny." Lankton's work was a neighborhood fixture, in exhibitions at the gallery Civilian Warfare and in regular window displays at Einstein's Boutique, and was also celebrated farther afield, in era-defining group shows at PS1 and the Venice Biennale. Her final work, an immersive installation created for the Mattress Factory in 1996, remains on permanent view.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Lankton, Greer, 1958-1996 Themes, motives.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Art, American 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sculpture 20th century. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Soft sculpture 20th century. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Dolls in art.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Gender identity in art.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Celebrities in art.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Goldin, Nan, 1953- editor.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Weitzman, Jordan, editor.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Schichtel, Francis, editor.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Als, Hilton, writer of supplementary textual content.
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