{"product_id":"sherrie-levine-directions-hirshhorn-museum-washington-1988","title":"Sherrie Levine — Directions — Exhibition Brochure, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., 1988","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal folded exhibition brochure \/ catalogue\u003cbr\u003eApprox. folded: 22.8 × 22.8 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on cream stock with fold-out interior panels\u003cbr\u003ePublished by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 9 March – 30 May 1988\u003cbr\u003eCondition: good to very good; light toning, handling wear, minor corner softening and age-related surface marks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for Sherrie Levine’s 1988 \u003cem\u003eDirections\u003c\/em\u003e exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., later travelling to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta as part of \u003cem\u003eArt at the Edge\u003c\/em\u003e. The publication includes essays by Phyllis Rosenzweig and Susan Krane alongside a checklist, bibliography, exhibition history, and reproductions of works from Levine’s then-recent \u003cem\u003eLead Checks\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGolden Knots\u003c\/em\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brochure marks a distinct moment in Levine’s practice. During the early 1980s her name became closely associated with re-photographed images and acts of appropriation, but by the late 1980s those strategies had migrated toward painting and material itself. The reproduced \u003cem\u003eLead Checks\u003c\/em\u003e works borrow the language of modernist geometry while removing its rhetoric of originality. The \u003cem\u003eGolden Knots\u003c\/em\u003e paintings similarly elevate accidental defects in commercially available plywood into subjects of attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication records a transition rather than a conclusion. Photography becomes painting, repetition becomes material, and citation becomes object. It also captures a moment when Neo-Geo and post-appropriation discourse were actively reorganising assumptions around authorship and artistic authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a New Rare inventory the brochure functions as a retained institutional support object — part checklist, part exhibition document, part evidence of a critical shift in Levine’s work becoming publicly fixed in print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. Shipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53549909442898,"sku":"LEVINE-HIRSH-BROCH-1988","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Levine_Sherrie._Directions_show_invite._1988_front.jpg?v=1779601140","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/sherrie-levine-directions-hirshhorn-museum-washington-1988","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}