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From its origins in the mail art movement through to its “destruction” of The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion in 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed a comprehensive body of work as a performative fiction. Glamour Is Theft examines this “pageantry of camp parody” through the logic of its mythic system. The book reconstructs this system from statements(...)
Glamour is theft: a user's guide to General Idea
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From its origins in the mail art movement through to its “destruction” of The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion in 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed a comprehensive body of work as a performative fiction. Glamour Is Theft examines this “pageantry of camp parody” through the logic of its mythic system. The book reconstructs this system from statements that were dispersed and disguised within General Idea’s work and writing as a whole, including the publication FILE Magazine.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The work of Brussels-based artist Kasper Andreasen encompasses drawing, printed matter and map-making, with a focus on the relationship between the gestures of drawing and writing. This is a companion volume to the installation ‘Writing Over’, which was shown in summer 2012 at Netwerk, in Aalst. Andreasen’s drawings, rendered in various types of drawing marks, are based(...)
Kasper Andreasen : writing over
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The work of Brussels-based artist Kasper Andreasen encompasses drawing, printed matter and map-making, with a focus on the relationship between the gestures of drawing and writing. This is a companion volume to the installation ‘Writing Over’, which was shown in summer 2012 at Netwerk, in Aalst. Andreasen’s drawings, rendered in various types of drawing marks, are based on landscape photographs, medieval maps, and notations. These are accompanied by a study of writing and drawing surfaces used in the cartographic process – sketches, stamps, engraving plates – and a short story by Louis Lüthi, entitled “Unalaska Alaska”, written specially for this book.
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Alice Aycock (b. 1946) emerged onto the New York art scene in the 1970s and is best known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightlessness as well as to science and cosmology. Aycock also has embraced the practice of drawing throughout her enormously productive career. This book is the first exploration of(...)
Alice Aycock drawings: some stories are worth repeating
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Alice Aycock (b. 1946) emerged onto the New York art scene in the 1970s and is best known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightlessness as well as to science and cosmology. Aycock also has embraced the practice of drawing throughout her enormously productive career. This book is the first exploration of her spectacular drawings, which include elements of mirage, fantasy, and science, and evoke both abstract thinking and bodily sensation. The works on paper featured in this volume highlight the major themes that have governed her artistic practice: the role of architecture as a founding point of reference; the importance of mechanics and structure; and references to nature. As author Jonathan Fineberg demonstrates, Aycock is an artist who thinks on paper.
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Containing almost every type of fold and page insert imaginable-from pasted-in accordion folds to bisected pages that allow for multiple combinations of images-this incredibly elaborate artist's book from Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) is based on a recent project for a garden in China.
Olafur Eliasson: never tired of looking at each other - only the mountain and I
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Containing almost every type of fold and page insert imaginable-from pasted-in accordion folds to bisected pages that allow for multiple combinations of images-this incredibly elaborate artist's book from Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) is based on a recent project for a garden in China.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In this volume, Daniel Spoerri (born 1930) embarks on an unconventional dialogue with objects in the Vienna Museum of Natural History, juxtaposing the collections with his own works of art - which themselves are inspired by the aesthetics of collections and taxonomies.
Daniel Spoerri : at the Natural History Museum, an incompetent dialogue?
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In this volume, Daniel Spoerri (born 1930) embarks on an unconventional dialogue with objects in the Vienna Museum of Natural History, juxtaposing the collections with his own works of art - which themselves are inspired by the aesthetics of collections and taxonomies.
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Viennese artist Florian Pumhosl (born 1971) makes paintings, films and architectural installations inspired by historical avant-gardes, and uses the site of the exhibition in itself as a medium. This publication presents all of Pumhosl's installations since 1993, with illustrations and explanatory texts.
Florian Pumhösl: spatial sequence works in exhibitions 1993-2012
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Viennese artist Florian Pumhosl (born 1971) makes paintings, films and architectural installations inspired by historical avant-gardes, and uses the site of the exhibition in itself as a medium. This publication presents all of Pumhosl's installations since 1993, with illustrations and explanatory texts.
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With Tiger & Turtle–Magic Mountain, Heike Mutter (born 1969) and Ulrich Genth (born 1971) created a spectacular landmark for the German city of Duisburg. The work consists of winding pathways made of differently sloped stairs. This publication presents their design with other submissions from the Heinrich Hildebrand Heights competition.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Ulrich Genth & Heike Mutter: Tiger & Turtle Magic Mountain
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With Tiger & Turtle–Magic Mountain, Heike Mutter (born 1969) and Ulrich Genth (born 1971) created a spectacular landmark for the German city of Duisburg. The work consists of winding pathways made of differently sloped stairs. This publication presents their design with other submissions from the Heinrich Hildebrand Heights competition.
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Lois Weinberger
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Working since the 1970s, Austrian artist Lois Weinberger uses plants as starting points for public art projects, drawings and films. He sees himself as an agricultural worker, and began in the seventies with ethnopoetic works that form the basis for his artistic exploration of the spaces of nature and civilization. Rural plants and wasteland flora that touch all areas of(...)
Lois Weinberger
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Working since the 1970s, Austrian artist Lois Weinberger uses plants as starting points for public art projects, drawings and films. He sees himself as an agricultural worker, and began in the seventies with ethnopoetic works that form the basis for his artistic exploration of the spaces of nature and civilization. Rural plants and wasteland flora that touch all areas of our lives are the starting and orientation points for notes, drawings, photos, objects, texts, films, and works in public space.
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Stefan Thiel: cuts
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Famous for rendering the Marquis de Sade into Braille sealed under glass, Berlin-based artist Stefan Thiel (born 1965) has recently worked extensively with silhouette cut-outs that depict people, architecture, landscapes, even well-known films--all executed with a fanatical attention to detail.
Stefan Thiel: cuts
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Famous for rendering the Marquis de Sade into Braille sealed under glass, Berlin-based artist Stefan Thiel (born 1965) has recently worked extensively with silhouette cut-outs that depict people, architecture, landscapes, even well-known films--all executed with a fanatical attention to detail.
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Gwenn Thomas
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This volume traces Gwenn Thomas’ ongoing exploration into the possibilities of exposing light-sensitive surfaces, and the ever-changing role of photographic reproduction and how it shapes our contemporary perception of painting.
Gwenn Thomas
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This volume traces Gwenn Thomas’ ongoing exploration into the possibilities of exposing light-sensitive surfaces, and the ever-changing role of photographic reproduction and how it shapes our contemporary perception of painting.
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