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Isobel Harbison



Books & Catalogues



In my first monograph, published in 2019 by the MIT Press, I explored the rise of social media alongside the proliferation of performance and moving image in contemporary art and asked how art history and exhibitions of art might provide some critical perspective on increasing appetite for capturing, sharing, consuming and performing images online. One review, among others, is here. 

My new book is an exploration of the high-watt legacy of a woman neon sign designer active in Las Vegas from the 1950s, and how other women were drawn to work beneath them. From strippers, singers and entertainers, to cleaners and croupiers, entrepreneurs and political organisers, artists, writers and filmmakers, this is a study of women’s roles in the spectacle’s circuits of desire and a rumination on night, light, women and power. (MUP)
*Shortlisted for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award 2024




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