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A comprehensive study of Mark Wallinger's career that draws on
extensive conversations with the artist, this book traces his
development from early influences to winning the Turner Prize in
2007 and beyond. Over the past quarter-century Wallinger has become
known as an artist who never repeats himself, and his art - driven
by passions including sport, history, politics, science and poetry
- has ranged from meticulous paintings of racehorses to a
presentation of the first public statue of Jesus Christ in England
since the Reformation, and from a performance while dressed in a
bear suit to installing a full-scale copy of peace protestor Brian
Haw's antiwar display at Parliament Square in Tate Britain. As this
book demonstrates, however, certain themes and strategies thread
through this dizzyingly diverse body of work. Here, Wallinger is
revealed as an artist committed to making art that is not only
brilliantly accessible and witty, but also conscientious and
politically incisive.
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Slow Painting (Paperback)
Hettie Judah, Martin Herbert; Artworks by Darren Almond, Athanasios Argianas, Michael Armitage, …
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The most comprehensive survey of the celebrated Dutch artist
Michael Raedecker's work spanning his 30-year career Michael
Raedecker, the acclaimed Dutch artist, records the memories held
within spaces and objects in his enigmatic and dream-like
paintings. Suburban homes, tree houses, and empty rooms and vacant
chairs, all float in haunting isolation. Muted hues are penetrated
with thread and needle where the artist hand-sews forms into
textural materiality. Since the beginning of his career as a
painter, Raedecker has incorporated embroidery into his works as a
visual counterpoint to his washed-out paint application. This
survey of his work, designed by the acclaimed Dutch graphic
designer, Irma Boom, is the most comprehensive published to date,
featuring essays by a unique and diverse group of critics,
curators, artists, and academics.
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Tal R (Hardcover)
Martin Herbert
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This book is the first full-length assessment of the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli-born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and wider history through a visual jigsaw, finely balanced between representation and abstraction, of what the artist terms 'Kolbojnik', a Hebrew term for leftovers.
Tal R's paintings are exceptionally idiosyncratic yet informed by an expansive view of the history of painting, with a diverse range of references including Fauvism, Symbolism and folk art. To the casual observer, his works depict amalgams of people, places and things. But deeper scrutiny reveals them as complex conceptual playgrounds where these seemingly simple categories are exploded and examined as 'construction' sites of both literal material (including collage, photography and sculpture) and meaning. For all students and lovers of painting, Tal R's works, like those of Chris Ofili or Laura Owens, have cleared a pathway for painting to continue after modernism and postmodernism without apology, beyond the worn out 'death of painting' mantra.
Terry R. Myers text offers an authoritative account of the twists and turns that path has taken so far.
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Elmgreen & Dragset (Paperback)
Martin Herbert, Linda Yablonsky, Cornelia H. Butler
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Elmgreen & Dragset's constructed environments have been
celebrated all over the world for their mischievous, cerebral, and
accessible nature. This is the first comprehensive presentation of
the duo's work, from their early performative pieces in the late
1990s to their most recent public projects Drawing from disciplines
as divergent as institutional critique, social politics,
performance, design, and architecture, Elmgreen & Dragset's
work reconfigures the familiar with characteristic and subversive
wit. Their sculptures and installations, also known as 'Powerless
Structures', have redefined what it means to experience art - the
cover features their work Van Gogh's Ear, a sculpture in the form
of a swimming pool, which is located on Fifth Avenue in New York at
the entrance to the Rockefeller Center. This book includes all of
their most significant projects, from the transformation of New
York's Bohen Foundation into a subway station in 2004, to the
siting of a fake Prada boutique in the Texan desert in 2005, and
the installation of the statue of a child on a rocking horse on the
fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2012. Elmgreen & Dragset
is the latest addition to the acclaimed Phaidon Contemporary
Artists Series.
The most comprehensive monograph to date on the British artist and
writer loved for his witty book-cover-inspired canvases, now
updated with forty of his latest works Harland Miller's creativity
as both artist and writer culminates in his iconic paintings of
battered book covers with cleverly invented titles. Initially
appropriating the classic Penguin paperback before devising his own
unique designs, Miller combines aspects of pop art, abstraction,
and figurative painting to create highly coveted artworks that have
won him a cult following. This monograph covers nearly twenty years
of his paintings, and features specially commissioned essays by
eminent art writers exploring different aspects of his practice and
has been updated with forty of his latest works.
Featuring an interview with Sina Najafi, an essay by Martin
Herbert, and designed by Dominique Clausen, this is the first major
monograph on the British-born, New Yorkbased artist Oliver Clegg.
An eclectic, polyphonic and multidisciplinary artist, Clegg's
oeuvre stretches from painting, drawing and printmaking to
sculpture, installation, site-specific art, participatory projects
and beyond. Indeed, his practice is in many ways a shining example
of 'post-medium' creativity today, pursuing the essence of art
itself beyond any specific medium or artform. The irony is, he's
pretty damn good with each artform too. With his erudite,
surprising and striking repertoire, and his diverse materials and
methods (from glass, wood and steel to neon, resin and concrete,
weaving and casting to engraving and industrial manufacture), Clegg
offers the viewer a complex, sometimes playful, other times moving
journey into existential and ontological notions of objecthood and
matter, images and signs, language and communication, creation and
being. From the studio and gallery walls to the streets of London
and New York, from Freud's house to the Joshua Tree National Park,
from foosball tables to state asylums, Clegg turns up to do
remarkable things with the fabric of spacetime. And yes, it's an
emotional rollercoaster of a ride - in fact, Clegg's oeuvre spans a
significant proportion of the spectrum of human emotion, his unique
trans-Atlantic blend of humour, sarcasm and wit coming face to face
with the much more serious matters of memory, psychology, truth,
belief, meaning, love, life and death. Nostalgia, childhood, games,
play and sentimentality career headlong into the realms of kitsch,
Pop and the history of the avantgarde, resulting in a delightful
yet challenging range of responses from the viewer, whether
amusement, camaraderie, joy, bemusement, outrage, disillusionment
or a call to arms. Clegg is an artist with great energy, incredible
spirit, and one of the most engaging, curious, cryptic and
entertaining oeuvres currently making waves in the world of art. In
many ways an exploration of the id, ego and superego, Clegg's
practice plays out the struggle between our basic desires, our
rational minds, and the underlying mores that keep us in check. Not
unlike Freudian notions of the psyche, Clegg's practice articulates
the battle that takes place inside us all on a daily basis,
spilling into the outside world in myriad ways. It is a fight, yes,
but it is play too.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
The oeuvre of the Albanian artist and prime minister Edi Rama is
inseparable from his political career. During telephone
con-ferences and meetings, he does drawings and watercolors on the
copies of his schedule, his work notes, on minutes, faxes, and
other pieces of correspondence. The art he produces in the environs
of national power forms an abstract journal, a vivid recording of
political life and the everyday tensions be-tween power and art.
Work is the first publication to present the drawings, ceramic
sculptures, and a tapestry, which was inspired by a similar
tapestry in Rama’s office in Tirana. Made up of more than seven
hundred of Rama’s drawings, the tap-estry runs throughout the
entire book, creating an immanent connection between his works.
Besides essays on Rama’s work, the book also features a
conversation with the artis
Leonhard Rickhard is an outstanding representative of Norwegian
contemporary art. Owing to his unique vision and narrative
techniques, he has revitalised painting as a means of artistic
expression. In his conceptual paintings he portrays a fragmented
and often enigmatic reality, inviting the viewer to discover and
reconstruct his pictorial narrative. Rickhard's universe of motifs
and figures can be traced back to the 1970s: birch forests,
building sites and heaps of machinery are combined with finely
detailed depictions of machine parts and fragments of models. His
narrative picture sequences are often populated by melancholy and
contemplative human figures. Rickhard has constantly questioned,
challenged and recontextualised this pictorial universe. His
artistic works occupy a unique position in Norwegian art, precisely
because of their uncompromising reworking of recurring motifs. His
paintings appear as solid and monumental constructions, which at
the same time reveal a fundamental complexity, restlessness and
vulnerability. The combination of conceptual strategies and formal
aspects is one of the most significant strengths of his artistic
oeuvre in the variegated field of contemporary art. Text in
English, German & Norwegian.
The contributors to this topical volume explore the role of family
support in promoting the welfare of children and their families.
They show how children can be supported in the development of their
full potential despite adverse experiences. Family support enables
children to access the variety of resources available to them in
the multiplicity of contexts in which they live.;This book
integrates concepts and experiences from an international
perspective, different levels of analysis (society, community and
family) and different loci of intervention (education, social
services and local government). Specific areas covered include:
principles of family and social support; social networks and social
change in the family and the community; reciprocal; support between
families,schools and the community; restoring the balance of
control between parents and children; supporting young people who
misuse drugs.;"Family Support" presents current knowledge about
family support and sets out directions for future developments in
thinking and service provision. It shows how an understanding of
the complexity and potential of family support can inform and
enrich the work of educators, professio
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