Yvonne Todd

Creamy Psychology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Creamy Psychology surveys Yvonne Todd's work since the late 1990s, including her recent Gilbert Melrose project (for which Todd printed the photographs taken by her second cousin in 1957) and her latest photographic series Ethical Minorities (Vegans). It contains new essays by Todd herself, Robert Leonard (on Todd and cults), Misha Kavka (on Todd and daytime TV), Claire Regnault (on Todd the costume fetishist), Megan Dunn (on Todd, Karen Carpenter, and anorexia), and Anthony Byrt (on Todd's Gilbert Melrose project). It also contains an archival section with earlier essays, including key pieces by Leonard, Dunn, Justin Paton, and Justin Clemens. Comprehensively illustrated, Creamy Psychology is the new go-to book on Yvonne Todd. It will be accompanied by a major show at City Gallery Wellington, to open in December.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Te Herenga Waka University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 178mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9780864739773
• ISBN-10: 086473977X
• Artikelnr.: 43413496

Autorenporträt

Twelve years ago, a young Auckland photographer, Yvonne Todd, became the surprise winner of the first Walters Award. Todd is best known for her portraits of women, her mostly invented female 'characters'. These portraits are typically contrived, and are nostalgically styled and art directed, using costumes, wigs, makeup, and false teeth. Many of Todd's characters seem to suffer from some soap-operatic malaise, explicit or implicit. They include cosmeticians, the disabled, modest Christians, anorexics, cult members, showgirls and tragic heiresses. Todd incorporates herself into their world, being one of her own favorite models. Her work has a complex relation with feminism