Synopsis "Hoover Hager Lassnig (in English)"
Three books in one (Ger./Engl.)Nan Hoover, Anneliese Hager and Maria Lassnig are women artists who expressed themselves experimentally and innovatively in various media. They were interested in alienation effects, body perception, and reflections about time and space. All three explored Surrealism early on and found their own individual visual language in different ways: the common denominator is a preoccupation with light, space and the body, as well as the existential question of self-perception and one's place in the world. While American Hoover (Born in Bay Shore, New York) was one of the pioneers of international light, video and performance art and produced a surprising painterly early oeuvre close to pop art, Hager, who is one of the most interesting female photographers of the 20th century, remains very little known. Today, Austrian painter Lassnig is one of the most important female artists of the 20th century, but she only achieved her international breakthrough late - in the 1980s. This publication, three books in one, enables readers to rediscover the three artists, or even discover them for the first time. Art, body, (self-)perception - a focused, concentrated introduction to the work and biography of three 20th century women artist Nan Hoover (1931-2008), light, video and performance artist (Nan Hoover's works were exhibited in many countries across the world, among them are the Museum of Modern Art, New York (part of the Collection) / Osaka Contemporary Art Center in Osaka / Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal / Long Beach Museum of Art, California / Art Metropole, Toronto) Anneliese Hager (1904-1997), photo artist, poet Maria Lassnig (1919-2014), painter, graphic artist (Lassnig's works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas and MoMA PS1 held a major exhibition in 2014 of her works
