TCT's 2024 Art Book Picks
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Here’s a no-paywall link to (some of) TCT’s favorite art books published this year. And below, I pasted part of my text about artist Carmen Winant’s project, a terribly topical highlight of 2024.
The Last Safe Abortion
By Carmen Winant
SPBH Editions / MACK
Spiral bound and laid out in horizontal grids, like an album, Carmen Winant’s collection of archival images is an exercise in understatement. Rejecting theatrics, the artist memorializes the era of Roe (1973–2022) and its community-based abortion-care clinics via unremarkable snapshots—of waiting rooms, reception desks, ultrasound exams, and staff meetings. Published for the occasion of this year’s Whitney Biennial, where the artist presented hundreds of such prints to form a wall-spanning mosaic of quotidian activity, this book is a careful edit, representing just a fraction of Winant’s amassed material. With it, she offers an invaluable visual record of the feminist labor that actualized a fleeting freedom […]
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