中文简介：

在1991年至1996年期间，Liza Lou创造性地使用上千万颗玻璃珠打造了她艺术生涯中的第一件标志性作品《厨房》，并于1996年在纽约新博物馆展出，这件装置按照真实比例还原了19世纪美国家庭的厨房场景，模糊了美术和工艺之间的界限，并确立了Liza Lou长期以来对物质性、过程和美的探索。工艺工作让Liza Lou参与了各种各样的社会活动，从洛杉矶的社区团体到2005年在南非德班成立的团体，再到巴西贝尔姆的女子监狱、印度孟买的珠绣团体。在过去15年里，Lou一直专注于以诗意的方式进行抽象创作，以此来突出她作品背后的过程。在这本考虑到她的全部奇特视野的综合书中，策展人、艺术史学家和艺术家们对她作品的广度提供了重要的观点。

英文简介：

Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labour, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine art material. The project blurred the rigid boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou s long-standing exploration of materiality, process, and beauty. Working within a craft metier has led the artist to work in a variety of socially engaged settings, from community groups in Los Angeles, to a collective she founded in Durban, South Africa in 2005, to a women s prison in Belm, Brazil, and a bead embroidery collective in Mumbai, India. Over the past 15 years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process under-lying her work. In this comprehensive volume that considers the entirety of her singular vision, curators, art historians, and artists offer important perspectives on the breadth of her work.