Bøger af Holly Crawford

Have you ever loved someone so fiercely you would do anything in your power to make them happy?Even if it meant watching them love someone else?It was love at first sight the day I met Wren Reid but a single misstep left me planted firmly in the friend-zone, so I promised her we would be best friends forever. I stood next to her as she married my teammate and I let the idea of her being mine fade away.Only now she's back in Charleston; single, staying in my house, wearing my number, and I'm more determined than ever to prove she doesn't need any man.But she can have me.

Meet Harley Hare, a silly ole rabbit who always has to learn from life's lessons. In this story, Harley learns that patience is a virtue and that being impatient can ruin your day.

Photographs and text description of conceptual art project with reference to Wallace Steven's poem by the same title. Illusion of simple forms and material as they are connected into different masses on different places worldwide. The project was participation and performative.

Economic Crisis Observatory, Atlantic City, A Service Economy is a case study photo and text essay of an economy where most of the people working are employed in minimum wage jobs. The game of Monopoly is used as a visual reference.

Selected photographs from Hyphens, Five Senses, a performative installation project by Holly Crawford. Photographs were taken at the Photo NY and Photo SF. The photographs are not staged. They are immediate response after asking if I could take image of one of their five senses. How do you connect to the world? What is your strongest or weakest sense?

Humor: A long narrative collaged poem from instructions about life from Adam and Eve, health insurance forms, your remote control from your television set, Nixon's instructions on why his daughters should not campaign at a museum, nuclear remote handling manual, instructions for events on a cruise ship and other texts. Runner up in many recognized poetry contests. The entire text was performed at the Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex in 2011.

A conceptual art and art criticism project by Holly Crawford. The text/poems are what she overheard, and wrote down as quickly as possible while standing next to people in art museums, galleries, public art installations, and art fairs over several years. Photograph by Holly Crawford, 2011.

Artist's book/visual poetry of found punctuation from Clement Greenberg's 1939 article Avant-Garde and Ktisch and other material, such as the punctuation from poets (Keats, cummings, Pound, Stein and others) as inspiration for these minimal implied narrative pieces. Essay by Peter Frank.

Artist's book project of found narrative poetry from many different sources, father's diary, NYT wedding announcement pages, university alumni material, Clement Greenberg article, and other material.

An entertaining collection of poetry to make you laugh, smile, savor the moment and want your own flock of sheep. Or goats - no kidding!

A memoir

The Mouse and the Duck are celebrities created by Disney through its new art form, the animated cartoon. Using various outlets including mass-media, television, and theme parks, Disney made the Mouse an icon of corporate success and American culture. From Pop art to the present day, more than a hundred artists have incorporated the Mouse''s image, humor, and nostalgia into their work. HOW AND WHY? Attached to the Mouse is the first art history analyzing use of Disney imagery by such contemporary artists as Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Warhol, Chagoya, Thiebaud, Helnwein, Boltanski, Dion, and Pensato. This book explores the impact of Disney, including artists'' economic and psychological motivations, on contemporary art. Links to: Author''s Website and Author''s Blog for Attached to the Mouse