On the occasion of the publication of PARIS LA 17—CHANGE AGENTS (2021–2022): An intermittent, open-ended, alphabetical Reading List, expanding on the artists, works, and concepts raised in the print issue.

 

Kia LaBeija and Julie Tolentino — Duets: Kia LaBeija and Julie Tolentino in Conversation. New York: Visual AIDS, 2018.

Suzanne Lacy — Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.

— Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between. By Sharon Irish. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

— We Are Here. Texts by Rudolf Frieling, Lucía Sanromán, and Dominic Willsdon. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York: DelMonico, 2019.

Lap-See Lam — Dreamers’ Quay, Dreamers’ Key. Edited by Yuvinka Medina, Bettina Schultz, and Lam. Texts by Stephanie Cristello, Mara Lee Gerdén, Yuvinka Medina, Svante Tirén, and Xiaoyu Weng. Stockholm: Bonniers Konsthall; Milan: Lenz Press, 2022.

Kimberly Lamm — Addressing the Other Woman: Textual Correspondences in Feminist Art and Writing. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.

Dorothea Lange and Sam Contis — Day Sleeper. Edited by Contis. London: Mack, 2020.

Liz Larner — Liz Larner. New York: Karma; Los Angeles: Regen Projects; Glasgow: Modern Institute; Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler, 2016.

— Liz Larner. Text by Peter Pakesch. Berlin: Holzwarth Publications, 2017.

— Don’t Put It Back Like It Was. Edited by Karen Kelly and Barbara Schroeder. Texts by Connie Butler, Catherine Liu, and Ariana Reines. Interview by Mary Ceruti. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center; New York: Sculpture Center; Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes Press, 2022.

Maria Lassnig — The Pen is the Sister of the Brush: Diaries 1943–1997. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl; Zürich: Hauser & Wirth, 2009.

Maria Lassnig and Liz Larner — Two or Three or Something. Edited by Peter Pakesch and Adam Budak. Cologne: Walther König, 2007.

Louise Lawler — An Arrangement of Pictures. New York: Assouline, 2000.

— Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back). Edited by Helen Molesworth. Texts by Rosalyn Deutsche, Sherri Geldin, Ann Goldstein, and Molesworth. Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, 2006.

Deana Lawson — An Aperture Monograph. New York: Aperture, 2018.

— Deana Lawson. Edited by Eva Respini and Peter Eleey. Texts by Kimberly Juanita Brown, Tina M. Campt, Alexander Nemerov, Greg Tate, Eleey, and Respini. Interview by Deborah Willis. London: Mack Books, 2021.

June Leaf — Record 1974/75 Mabou Coal Mines. Göttingen: Steidl, 2010.

 — Thought is Infinite. Texts by Carter E. Foster and Clara Rojas-Sebesta. Göttingen: Steidl; New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2016.

Lee Bul — Lee Bul. London: Hayward Gallery, 2018.

Jennie Jieun Lee — Rainbow 1 Hour Photo. New York: Martos Gallery, 2018.

Ursula K. Le Guin — Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. New York: Grove Press, 1989.

Ace Lehner — “Proliferating Identities: Trans Selfies as Contemporary Art.” In Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie. Edited by Derek Conrad Murray. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Simone Leigh — Simone Leigh. Text by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. New York: Luhring Augustine, 2019.

— “Monumental.” Profile. By Calvin Tomkins. New Yorker, March 28, 2022.

— Simone Leigh. Edited by Eva Respini. Texts by Vanessa Agard-Jones, Rizvana Bradley, Dionne Brand, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Malik Gaines, Saidiya Hartman, Daniella Rose King, Jessica Lynne, Nomaduma Masilela, Katherine McKittrick, Uri McMillan, Jill Medvedow, Sequoia Miller, Steven Nelson, Tavia Nyong’o, Lorraine O’Grady, Rianna Jade Parker, Yasmina Price, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Christina Sharpe, Hortense Spillers, Leigh, and Respini. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art; New York: DelMonico, 2023.

Mariana Leme, Adriano Pedrosa, and Isabella Rjeille — Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories. Edited by Leme, Pedrosa, and Rjeille. São Paulo: Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 2022.

Kris Lemsalu — Birth V: Hi and Bye. Edited by Maria Arusoo and Lemsalu. Texts by Andrew Berardini and Tamara Luuk. Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2020.

Zoe Leonard — Survey. Edited by Bennett Simpson. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art; Munich: DelMonico/ Prestel, 2018.

— Al río / To the River. Edited by Tim Johnson. Texts by C.J. Alvarez, Ariella Azoulay, Cecilia Ballí, Remijio “Primo” Carrasco, Dolores Dorantes, Darby English, Álvaro Enrigue, Catherine Facerias and Élisabeth Lebovici, Nadiah Rivera Fellah, Josh T. Franco, Esther Gabara, Adolfo Guzman Lopez, Aimé Iglesias Lukin, José Rabasa, Cameron Rowland, Roberto Tejada, and Karla Villavicencio. Poem by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Berlin: Hatje Cantz; Luxembourg: Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean; Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 2022.

Sherrie Levine — After All. Munich: Hirmer, 2017.

— October Files 23. Edited by Howard Singerman. Texts by Michel Assenmaker, Douglas Crimp, Erich Franz, Catherine Ingraham, David Joselit, Susan Kandel, Rosalind Krauss, Sylvia Lavin, Maria Loh, Stephen Melville, Craig Owens, Levine, and Singerman. New York: October, 2018.

Helen Levitt — A Way of Seeing. Text by James Agee. New York: Viking, 1965; Cologne: Walther König, 2020.

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville — Art & Graphic Design: George Maciunas, Ed Ruscha, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville. By Benoît Buquet. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021.

Edmonia Lewis — Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject. By Kirsten Pai Buick. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.

Ligia Lewis — “Ligia Lewis: Interview by Martha Kirszenbaum.” Kaleidoscope 29 (Spring 2017).

— “Ligia Lewis and Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi in Conversation.” In Made in L.A. 2020: a version. Edited by Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum; Munich: DelMonico/Prestel, 2020.

Laura Lima — “Laura Lima.” By Vanessa Arizmendi. In Witch Hunt. Edited by Connie Butler and Anne Ellegood. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2021.

Candice Lin — A Hard White Body. Edited by Lotte Arndt and Yesomi Umolu. Chicago: Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, 2020.

— Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping. Edited by Dan Byers and Victoria Sung. Texts by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Mel Y. Chen, and Liv Porte. Cambridge, MA: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts; Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2021.

Maya Lin — Boundaries. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.

Treva B. Lindsey — America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.

Kate Linker and Jane Weinstock — Difference: On Representation and Sexuality. Edited by Linker and Weinstock. New York: New Museum,1984.

Meg Linton and Sue Maberry — Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building. Edited by Linton and Maberry. Los Angeles: Otis College of Art and Design, 2011.

Lucy R. Lippard — From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976.

Andrea Liss — Feminist Art and the Maternal. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Hung Liu — Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu. Oakland: Oakland Museum of California; Berkeley, University of California Press, 2013.

— Portraits of Promised Lands. Edited by Dorothy Moss. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021.

Sharon Lockhart — Noa Eshkol. Edited by Eva Wilson and Daniela Zyman. Vienna: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary; Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012.

— Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat. By Howard Singerman. London: Afterall Books, 2014.

Michelle Lopez — Ballast & Barricades. Edited by Alex Klein. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2020.

Yolanda López — Yolanda López. By Karen Mary Davalos. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Audre Lorde — The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

— The Selected Works of Audre Lorde. Edited by Roxane Gay. New York: W. W. Norton, 2020.

Renate Lorenz — Queer Art: A Freak Theory. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript, 2012.

Liza Lou — Liza Lou. Texts by Eleanor Heartney, Arthur Lubow, and Peter Schjeldahl. Interview by Lawrence Weschler. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2011.

— Liza Lou. Texts by Glenn Adamson, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Cathleen Chaffee, and Elisabeth Sherman. Interview by Carrie Mae Weems. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2022.

Lee Lozano — Notebooks 1967–70. Brooklyn: Primary Information, 2010.

— Lee Lozano: Dropout Piece. By Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer. London: Afterall Books, 2014.

— Language Pieces. Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery; Zürich: Hauser & Wirth, 2018.

Sarah Lucas — Au Naturel. Edited by Massimiliano Gioni and Margot Norton. New York: New Museum, 2018.

 

 

From top: Ligia Lewis, deader than dead, 2020, still, mixed-media performance documented on HD video, color, sound, image © Ligia Lewis, courtesy of the artist; Maria Lassnig, The Pen is the Sister of the Brush: Diaries 1943–1997, cover image courtesy and © Steidl.