Sharon Lockhart

Lunch Break III

Eckmann Sabine

"Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III" is the third volume in a series examining the work of acclaimed video artist and photographer Sharon Lockhart. Known for collaborating with remote or marginal communities such as blue collar workers of the twenty-first century, as she did in "Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break I", the artist also blurs the line between photography, video art, and documentary. The results are simultaneously staged and artificial, yet at the same time intimate and deeply human. Her newest museum installations also incorporate artworks and utilitarian objects made by others, expanding upon earlier forms of institutional critique. This book includes essays by curators and scholars who provide an international perspective on the artist's evolving series. Stunningly illustrated, "Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III" serves as a reminder of the power and beauty of Lockhart's art.

About the Author

Sabine Eckmann is director and chief curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also teaches in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. She is the author or editor of several books, including "Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break", "The Art of Two Germanys", "Thaddeus Strode: Absolute and Nothings", and "Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany".

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