Jane Gottlieb : photographs : [exhibition] January 5-March 4, 1988, Laguna Art Museum.

by Jane Gottlieb

Laguna Art Museum. Catalog for Exhibition held January 5 - March 4, 1988. Paper covers, 53 pp. Includes 22 full color photograph reproductions. Preface by William G. Otton. Introduction by Michael McManus. [Excerpt from Intro] Emerging in the late 1980s as a significant addition to the development of West Coast photography, Jane Gottlieb's work sounds a varied yet subtle coda to the concerns of the Los Angeles art scene that prevailed from the late 1960s to the mid1970s. The formal distinction between this summation and the main esthetic structure of the period involves a repeat from the phenomenological modes of inquiry popular since the late 1940s back to those psychoanalytic modes that informed surrealism in the mid-1920s. Gottlieb intuits this. She is not a programmatic artist like Robert Irwin or James Turreli who both knowingly grounded their work in the post-war phenomenological writings of Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Ingarden. Nor does her iconography and composing strategy emerge from a familiarity with the reappraisal of Freudian psychoanalysis by Lacan, Deleuze, and the rest of the Tel Quel crowd-as the icons and compositions of Salle Fischl, and other artists of Gottlieb’s generation who studied in southern California clearly do.

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First published January 1, 1988