Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play

This monograph presents a meticulous examination of Julia Jacquette’s critique of consumer culture through her hyperrealistic paintings that magnify and recontextualize advertising imagery to the point of uncanny recognition. Richly illustrated with Jacquette’s large-scale works, previously unexhibited gouaches, and food painting grids overlaid with confessional text, the volume situates her practice within the lineage of Pop Art while emphasizing her distinctly feminist intervention into this historically masculine domain. Through scholarly essays and reproductions of her graphic memoir Playground of My Mind, the publication articulates how Jacquette’s oeuvre negotiates the tension between desire and skepticism as she renders the glossy veneer of luxury advertising at a monumental scale.

Published by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, New York, 2017

Essays by Tracy Adler and James Trainor

Designed by Tim Laun and Natalie Wedeking

Hardcover, fully illustrated, 120 pages

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