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Gillian Wearing (Paperback)
Russell Ferguson, John Slyce, Donna De Salvo
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R901
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British artist Gillian Wearing, winner of the 1997 Turner Prize,
uses photography and video to explore the intimacies and
complexities of everyday life. Borrowing from popular culture, her
work is disturbing and confessional. In 1992 she began the
acclaimed series Signs that say what you want them to say and not
Signs that say what someone else wants them to say', in which
random passers-by are photographed holding messages they've
written, such as the mild-mannered young businessman whose sign
unexpectedly reads 'I'm Desperate'. Wearing's work borrows from
familiar forms of popular culture to produce direct, revealing
records of deep-seated human trauma and emotion, often adopting the
methods of television documentaries for her 'fly-on-the-wall' view
of people's lives. Her videos can be alarming, as in Confess All
... in which masked individuals confess their darkest secrets, or
humorous, as in (Slight) Reprise - a sampler of adults playing 'air
guitar' in the fantasy rock stadium of their bedrooms. Her art can
be disconcerting or uplifting: an honest portrait of the many sides
to contemporary life. With exhibitions in Britain, the US, Europe
and Japan, Wearing is among the best-known and most internationally
recognized of the recent generation of British artists. This is the
first publication ever to survey this remarkable young artist's
gripping work in its entirety. Russell Ferguson of UCLA's Hammer
Museum contextualizes Wearing's work in relation to historical
precedents in painting, photography and video art. Curator at the
Whitney Museum of American Art Donna De Salvo discusses with the
artist her collaborative approach towards her work and its
subjects. London-based critic John Slyce focuses on Wearing's work
10-16, a remarkable video installation that charts our transition
from childhood to adolescence. The artist has selected transcripts
from director Michael Apted's acclaimed British television
documentary series Seven Up, an important influence on the process
Wearing uses in her own work. Published here for the first time in
full are the transcripts of the artist's video works.
This landmark monograph is the first comprehensive survey of Walter
De Maria's exceptionally diverse and visionary art practice,
providing an in-depth look at more than 200 works and presenting
the first detailed chronology ever published. Although best known
as a creator of seminal works of Land art, Walter De Maria also
maintained an extensive and highly original practice as a sculptor,
painter, draftsman, writer, filmmaker, and composer. This expansive
publication presents more than 200 works created or envisioned by
the artist from 1960 until his death in 2013. Each work is fully
illustrated and accompanied by detailed text entries written by
Elizabeth and Michael Childress, supplemented by archival images,
many of which have never been published before. Essays by Michael
Govan, Christine Mehring, and Lars Nittve provide detailed
overviews and analyses of the early, middle, and later periods of
De Maria's production. The monograph also includes an introduction
by Donna De Salvo; the first detailed, thoroughly documented, and
illustrated chronology of De Maria's life and work, written by
Dagny Corcoran; and an exhibition history and bibliography.
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