Main entry:

Dion, Mark, 1961-

Title & Author:

Mark Dion : archaeology / [edited by Alex Coles and Mark Dion].

Publication:

[London] : Black Dog Pub., ©1999.

Description:

[109] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
It may be art but is it archaeology? Science as art and art as science / Colin Renfrew -- The epic archaeological digs of Mark Dion / Alex Coles -- History trash dig -- History trash scan -- Raiding Neptune's vault : a voyage to the bottom of the canals and lagoon of Venice -- Loot / Emi Fontana -- Tate Thames dig -- Ballast-heavers and battle-axes : the 'Golden Age' of Thames finds / Jonathan Cotton -- Disjecta reliquiae : the Tate Thames dig / Robert Williams.

Summary:

This volume presents Mark Dion's work on "digs" he has been concerned with in Italy, Switzerland, and London. The book provides a preface to each of project by the artist. A text frames his ongoing projects. Further texts from the lecture programme in the Tate Gallery elucidate the artist's work.

ISBN:

1901033910 (pbk.)
9781901033915 (pbk.)

Subject:

Dion, Mark, 1961-
Dion, Mark.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Installations (Art)
Nature (Esthétique)
installations (visual works)
Project-art
Feldforschung
Bildband
Installation d'art.
Archéologie.
Thème.

Added entries:

Coles, Alex.

Archaeology

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230308
Call No.: N72.S3 M3 1999
Status: Available