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Jim Lambie (Hardcover)
John Giorno, Suzanne Cotter, Daniel Baumann, Sophie Woodward
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R1,760
R1,382
Discovery Miles 13 820
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This long-awaited volume surveys the career of Glasgow-based
contemporary sculptor Jim Lambie. From his distinctive floor works,
striped from wall to wall with vibrant electrical tape, to his
paint-soaked mattresses, Lambie adroitly sculpts humour and pathos
from the clutter of modern life. Working with items immediately at
hand, as well as those sourced in second-hand and hardware stores,
he resurrects record decks, speakers, clothing, accessories, doors,
and mirrors to form sculptural elements in larger compositions.
Lambie prioritizes sensory pleasure over intellectual response. He
selects materials that are familiar and have a strong personal
resonance, so that they offer a way into the work as well as a
springboard to a psychological space beyond. This volume not only
serves as a definitive mid-career survey but also as a major
reframing of the artist s work. Lambie s practice has long been
understood through the lens of punk and rock music, a frequent
theme of his works titles. Here the artist and new essays instead
trace his approach to the rich material histories he mines and the
scrappy, resourceful spirit of his hometown, Glasgow.
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N. Dash (Hardcover)
John Giorno, Suzanne Hudson, Ajay Kurian, Ross Simonini; New Contributor; Text written by …
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R1,296
Discovery Miles 12 960
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This first monograph by N. Dash provides a comprehensive overview
of the work of this emerging American artist, whose work operates
within diverse media and materials. In her abstract and
process-oriented works, N. Dash uses natural as well as man-made
substances such as pigments, clay, jute, graphite, fabric, string,
Styrofoam, or found objects to explore intuitive, touch-based
communication systems. With her focus on the visual and tactile
qualities of material, N. Dash's work combines the raw with the
sensitive, the abject with the beautiful. The text contributions
place her work in art historical and anthropological contexts.
Giorno first rose to fame in New York in the early 1960s as the
star of Warhol's Sleep. Associated with key 1960s avant garde
figures such as Ginsberg, Burroughs, Rauschenberg, and Johns,
Giorno was an early pioneer of multimedia poetry through Giorno
Poetry Systems, which also distributed a who's who of the American
underground from Patti Smith to Sonic Youth. Giorno's use of
transgressive material and in-your-face amplified delivery was also
a key influence on punk/new wave pioneers such as Suicide,
Throbbing Gristle, and Black Flag. Not just a poet but a sexual,
spiritual, and political radical, Giorno helped pioneer the open
celebration of queer sexuality in poetry in the 1960s. His AIDS
Treatment Project, begun in 1984, set the bar for action in the
AIDS crisis. Subduing Demons in America offers the best of Giorno's
revolutionary poetry, from his striking Pop Art-influenced poems of
the 1960s to the psychedelic, echo-laden, multitracked cut-ups of
the 1970s with their explosive configurations of queer sex,
spiritual practice, and the bohemian Good Life. Also here are the
pared-down punk/hip-hop performance poems that Giorno performed in
the 1980s.
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