TY - BOOK ID - 135779852 TI - Bettina AU - Grossman, Bettina AU - Pocock, Antonia AU - Barrada, Yto AU - Katrib, Ruba AU - Huber, Gregor AU - Les Rencontres de la photographie PY - 2022 SN - 9781597115421 1597115428 PB - New York, N.Y. Aperture DB - UniCat KW - Art, American KW - Conceptual art KW - Grossman, Bettina, KW - Art KW - conceptual artists KW - Grossman, Bettina UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135779852 AB - Bettina is the first monograph to showcase the work of the previously unsung artist Bettina Grossman, whose wildly interdisciplinary practice spanned photography, sculpture, textile, cinema, drawing, and more. An eccentric personality fully dedicated to her art, Bettina lived in the famous Chelsea Hotel from 1968 until her death in late 2021. In her tiny studio, she produced and accumulated a considerable body of work, much of which has remained unseen and unpublished until now. Her interests ranged from geometric and abstract studies, drawn from observations of people on the street, to pieces that transformed language into graphic, abstract “verbal forms.” Incorporating strategies of chance and the abstraction of everyday form through repetition and seriality, Bettina pushed the photographic medium to and beyond its limits. As Robert Blackburn, artist and founder of the Printmaking Workshop, astutely observed of Bettina’s work: “The photography, film, sculpture are as one, for the photographic medium is employed not only for documentation but as an endless source of inspiration from which other disciplines emerge—and merge.” ER -