The Time of Our Lives

New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art; Rizzoli, 1999. 120 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. An exhibition organized by Marcia Tucker with Anne Ellegood, on the theme of aging/growing old. Paintings, sculpture, photography, performance documentation, video & film, with interesting works by Marina Abramovicz, Nancy Burson, Rachel Lachowicz, Suzanne Lacy, Yvonne Rainer and Cindy Sherman. Subthemes include aging in art, anti-ageism, feminism. Includes some jarring photographs of nude elderly models by Jacqueline Hayden, Harriet Casdin-Silver, Jeff Wall, and Manabu Yamanaka. "This catalogue critically addresses the ways in which aging has traditionally been portrayed as a narrative of decline in Western society. By focusing on visual representations that subvert the prevailing ideologies of age and ageism, The Time of Our Lives looks at these issues from varied perspectives and offers creative alternatives to the conventional imagery of aging that pervades our culture." - Publisher. CONTENTS: "A Land Where We'll Never Grow Old," by Marcia Tucker; "'What's Wrong With Your Mother?': Representations of Menopausal Women in Television and Film," by Anja Zimmermann; "Signs of Age: Representing the Older Body," by Philip Koplin; "Old Dogs, New Tricks," by Anne Ellegood; Catalogue of Works. "Older and Wiser?," by Anne Barlow and Xochitl Dorsey.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.