An internationally recognized conceptual artist and the only African-American in the early conceptual art movement of the 1960s, Piper’s work was strongly influenced by Sol LeWitt and first appeared in the pages of Vito Acconci’s 0 to 9 magazine in 1968.

The writings in Out of Order, Out of Sight trace the development of Piper’s thinking about her artwork and the art world, and her evolving awareness of herself as a creative, racial, and gendered subject of experience situated in an often limiting and always absurd cultural and social context. The meta-art essays in Volume I document and examine her artistic practice – often humorous, frequently disturbing. The art criticism contained in Volume II confronts and analyzes the social preconditions of contemporary art practice and the cultural issues that surround it.
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