Louise Lawler is an American artist and photographer who has been working from the 1970s onwards. Her media is usually photography and she has specialized in taking photographs of other people's work, in the form of portraiture. She tries to give special attention to the places in which they have been made, finding the role of the artist as creator and the places where that creation happens, intensely interesting. She often takes photos of work hanging on the walls of museums or in an art collector's home. She is often associated as being part of the 'pictures generation' school of thought. She also does conceptual and installation art, including theBook of Matches andHelms Amendment (1989). Her work can often be intensely political and is very diverse. It will sometimes include political pamphlets and she will address what she sees as establishment art. Even the work that challenges the establishment should be challenged. Her work is sometimes seen as 'abstraction art' or 'institutional critique' for this reason. Read Less