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**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.