Individual artists, art monographs Books
Other Criteria TheElusive Truth by Hirst Damien Author ON
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£22.95
Other Criteria Mat Collishaw
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£51.20
Other Criteria Radiations
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£48.00
Other Criteria Beyond Belief Essay by Will Self
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£90.00
Other Criteria Fiction Fear Fact
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£34.50
Other Criteria Eloise Fornieles
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£20.00
Wooden Books Glastonbury's Original Miss Smith
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£10.74
Film & Video Umbrella Mark Lewis
Book SynopsisFollowing on from an earlier monograph, Mark Lewis: Films 1995-2000', this publication documents a more recent series of film works produced by the artist since 2000, which continue his evocative reflections upon the cinematic history of medium.Extensively illustrated and featuring essays by Steven Bode, David Turnbull and Jean-Pierre Rehm, the book was published to accompany two large-scale exhibitions of Lewis's work that took place at MOMA, Oxford in 2001 and at Villa Arson in Nice in 2001/2002.
£11.35
Film & Video Umbrella Marion Coutts
Book SynopsisProduced to accompany a survey exhibition of British artist Marion Coutts' work in 2003, and focusing on her newly commissioned installation Everglade', this substantial monographic publication captures the distinctiveness, and the diversity, of Coutts' practice.Featuring essays by Sally O'Reilly and Vincent Deary, alongside an in conversation with the artist by Katherine Wood, the book explores Coutts' engaging and inventive practice whose subtle use of the moving image is allied to a wider object-based aesthetic.
£9.95
Film and Video Umbrella Smith/Stewart - a Black Thread
Book SynopsisThis large-format publication acts as a visual record of a unique three-part exhibition by the acclaimed Glasgow-based artists Smith/Stewart. Their project A Black Thread', consisted of a trio of related installations, combining video and sound with stark and physically imposing sculptural elements. Capturing the taut, tense and enigmatic atmosphere of the works themselves, the book features a series of fractured images from each manifestation of the project, which began at Chisenhale Gallery in the winter of 2002 before travelling to Art Sheffield (April 2003) and Milton Keynes Gallery (January-March 2004).
£10.00
Film and Video Umbrella Outside Inside Andrew Stones
Book SynopsisProduced to coincide with a major video and sound installation, Atlas', launched at Chisenhale Gallery in London in June 2004, this publication represents the first extensive overview of twenty years of Andrew Stones' video and mixed media work.Looking back over a prolific career from Stones' early contributions to UK video art practice to the artist's more recent conceptual explorations of leading-edge science and technology, it showcases several new video and photographic pieces produced at restricted-access scientific institutions around the globe.Featuring commissioned texts by Sean Cubitt and Shirley MacWilliam and tracing a path through an impressive back-catalogue of visual and documentary material, this monographic publication draws out the depths and the subtleties of Stones' evocative and multifaceted practice.
£12.30
Film & Video Umbrella Jane and Louise Wilson: A Free and Anonymous
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£11.25
Film & Video Umbrella Marine Hugonnier
Book SynopsisA survey of film and photographic work by the French artist Marine Hugonnier, this monographic publication also functions as catalogue of Hugonnier's exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts in 2004.Richly illustrated throughout, the book highlights two companion film projects, Ariana' (2003) and The Last Tour' (2004), and also showcases a series of photographic works by the artist. The publication features commissioned texts by Michael Newman and Jeremy Millar, plus an interview with Marine Hugonnier by Lynne Cooke.Published by Film and Video Umbrella and Dundee Contemporary Arts. Supported by the National Touring Programme of the Arts Council of England.
£14.51
Film & Video Umbrella Portraits
Book SynopsisPortraiture has always been a feature of Roderick Buchanan's photographic and film and video work. This survey publication, released to coincide with the artist's solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London, in 2005, traces a number of portrait pieces produced over the course of a career spanning over fifteen years and includes a keynote essay by critic Jan Verwoert.Encompassing classic early photo-series such as Coast to Coast Dennistoun', and Yankees' (1996) and ending on recent film works such as Harriers' (2002) and History Painting' (2005), the book presents a collection of faces, highlighting Buchanan's preoccupation with the codes and iconographies of cultural allegiance and identity and his equally insistent focus on the individual subject as part of a wider field of social and cultural relationships. ?Published in association with the British Council.
£10.00
Film & Video Umbrella The Return of the Native
Book SynopsisThis small-format publication, designed to resemble the old fashioned Ladybird series of books, was released to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Pump House Gallery, London, in 2005, and looks back over a body of work that highlights the gradual disappearance of hitherto common types of wildlife from their former habitats across the UK. The book features an introductory essay by one of Britain's best-known writers on birds and birdwatching, Stephen Moss. A further essay, by the artist and writer Nicky Coutts, considers the themes and motifs of these new works in the context of Best's broader artistic practice.
£8.84
Film & Video Umbrella Johan Grimonprez: Looking for Alfred
Book SynopsisA large-format publication documenting the various elements and stages of Johan Grimonprez's project Looking for Alfred' which uses film, video and photography, as well as storyboards and other drawings by the artist, in an imaginative pursuit of the multi-faceted legacy of Alfred Hitchcock.Published in conjunction with Grimomprez's exhibition Looking for Alfred', at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2007, this full colour publication features essays by Patricia Allmer, Thomas Elsaesser and Tom McCarthy, with texts by Jorge L. Borges, Jeff Noon and Slavoj Zizek, alongside an interview with the artist by Chris Darke. The book retraces the themes of the lookalike and the double that recur in Grimonprez's work, and are such a feature of Hitchcock's own oeuvre, whilst providing insightful explorations into the artist's broader practice.Looking for Alfred' is published by Film and Video Umbrella, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Pinakothek der Moderne and Zapomatik, with the support of Theo Wormland Stiftung, Arts Council England, The Flemish Authorities, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels and SMAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent. With additional support from Sean Kelly Gallery and Deitch Projects.
£18.28
Film & Video Umbrella Seascape Susan Collins
Book SynopsisCharting the span of Susan Collins' Seascape' from its earliest online manifestations to its gallery exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, this publication offers an overview of this innovative project which used digital technology to bring a new element to a long-standing pictorial tradition reflecting man's enduring relationship to the sea. Featuring essays by art historian Nicholas Alfrey and critic Sean Cubitt, alongside a wealth of images and other background information, the book sets out to capture the many different facets of this remarkable piece of work, highlighting the sheer volume of material that has been generated over the course of its development.Published by Film and Video Umbrella. Supported by Arts Council England.
£10.00
Film & Video Umbrella Ruth Maclennan - Anarcadia
Book SynopsisThe first major publication on Ruth Maclennan's work, this book profiles the artist's videos and photographs, shot in Kazakhstan, which chart a territory somewhere between fiction and documentary. The book features an essay by Lucy Reynolds and an interview between the artist and Owen Hatherley, as well as an introduction by Steven Bode. It also contains transcripts of Maclennan's film works Anarcadia (2010) and Capital (2007), highlighting the importance of writing in her practice. These texts are complemented and enriched by a wealth of visual material, including archival images, location photos and video stills.
£12.24
Film & Video Umbrella Shona Illingworth - the Watch Man. Balnakiel
Book SynopsisThis publication revolves around two key works by the artist Shona Illingworth. Made one after the other between 2006 and 2009, the video and sound installations The Watch Man and Balnakiel are highly personal but extraordinarily resonant studies of memory, history and place that examine the damage that is done to the psyche by the experience of war and the equally pervasive and insidious marks that have been left on the physical landscape by the presence of the military. Informed by a longstanding collaboration between the artist and the cognitive neuro-psychologist Professor Martin A. Conway (whose written contributions and distinctive memory drawings' punctuate the book), the background to these pieces is further elaborated in a trio of specially commissioned essays by Caterina Albano, Jill Bennett and Steven Bode.
£14.25
Film & Video Umbrella Luke Fowler - the Poor Stockinger, the Luddite
Book SynopsisThis companion publication to Luke Fowler's film of the same name features essays by architecture critic and cultural commentator Owen Hatherley and historian Tom Steele. Lending additional context to Fowler's study of the activist/historian E.P. Thompson, it brings further illuminating insights to Thompson's life and times, and his lingering influence as a champion of workers' education. Evoking the design of a Workers Educational Association textbook from a similar era, this illustrated pocket-sized publication acts as a resonant echo of Fowler's work.
£6.75
Film & Video Umbrella Simon Martin
Book SynopsisSimon Martin's artistic practice deftly illuminates the unsung histories of familiar objects, the unspoken dynamics of artistic canons and institutional spaces, and the unseen connections between the disparate products of different eras, or indeed our own. These longstanding preoccupations have resulted in a correspondingly crafted and eclectic body of work which encompasses various forms, and which is punctuated by regular and significant film pieces, including the trilogy Carlton (2006), Louis Ghost Chair (2012) and Ur Feeling (2014). Featuring essays by critics Dan Fox and Melissa Gronlund, and art historian Neil Mulholland, the publication focuses on these film works, while ranging across the wider backdrop of Martin's ideas and concerns. Designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio, the book is a desirable object in its own right, as well as an indispensible primer to this compelling and intriguing artist's work.Edited by Steven Bode and Elena Hill, and with thanks to Patrick Langley.Published by Film and Video Umbrella and Elena Hill.Copyright 2015 Film and Video Umbrella, Elena Hill, the artists and the authors.
£11.40
Film & Video Umbrella Jerwood / FVU Awards: Borrowed Time: 2016
Book SynopsisThis publication accompanies the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2016, for which emerging artists Karen Kramer and Alice May Williams were commissioned to create major new works. The artists' works respond in different ways to the theme of Borrowed Time', with its allusion to escalating levels of personal and national debt and a wider feeling of economic unease or ecological threat caused by our exploitation of natural resources and the impact it has on the environment.With dedicated texts by Steven Bode and an essay by Laurence Scott, the publication probes these ideas and explores the ways in which the theme resonates with the new works by Kramer and Williams.The Jerwood/FVU Awards are a collaboration between Jerwood Charitable Foundation and FVU in association with CCA, Glasgow and University of East London.
£6.95
Sansom & Co By the Look of Things: The Life and Work of
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Sansom & Co Charlies Simpson Painter of Animals and Birds
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£8.62
Sansom & Co Stanley Spencer: Journey to Burghclere
Book SynopsisStanley Spencer was one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century artists. He became famous for two things: his celebration and immortalisation of his home town of Cookham in Berkshire - his 'heaven on earth' as he lovingly called it - and the fusion in his paintings of sex and religion, the heavenly and the ordinary. In 1915, Spencer left home to serve as a medical orderly in the Beaufort Military Hospital in Bristol. Aged 24, he had rarely stayed away overnight from home. For ten months, he scrubbed floors, bandaged convalescent soldiers and carried supplies around the vast, former lunatic asylum. In 1916, he signed up for overseas duty in Macedonia, where he saw violent action up to the eve of the Armistice. Five years after the war, Spencer started making large drawings of a possible memorial scheme based on his wartime experiences. So extraordinary were his sketches, and so committed was he to realising them in paint, that the Behrend family became his patrons, funding a purpose-built memorial chapel at Burghclere, near Newbury. For five years, he toiled, often on top of a giant scaffold, to produce the painted chapel now regarded as his masterpiece - one of the unsung artistic glories of Europe. Drawing on Spencer's own letters, illustrations and paintings, Paul Gough tells the story of the artist's journey from cosseted family life, through the drudgery of a war hospital and the malarial battlefields of a forgotten front, to his unique vision of peace and resurrection in Burghclere. The book locates Spencer's work alongside other soldier-artists of the time.Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction 'The elsewheres of my mind' Part One The Beaufort, Bristol Cookham - 'my paradise' The outbreak of war The Hellish Underworld of the Beaufort Through the gates of hell A blessed state of servility' 'This vile place' 'Christ visiting Hell' Stanley's progress as an artist at Beaufort 'A rejoicing criminal' - leaving Bristol End notes Part Two The Balkans A spiritual world 100066 Private Spencer, Stanley, orderly RAMC Drawn back to the front 41812 Private Spencer, C Coy, Berkshire Regt Transfiguration: Stanley as official war artist End notes Part Three Burghclere The Holy Box End notes Descent into Hell - 'imagining Beaufort' The underworld of the lower register Washing and cleaning: objects and distortion Sorting and carrying: the logic of the narrative Beds and butter: the later predellas End notes Khaki and camping Endnotes Resurrection: 'God in the real bare things' 'All the Sydneys who died' 'Everyone suddenly burst out singing' Christ in No-Man's-Land A habit of threes Composite, but unified End notes Conclusion: 'Slicing bread and talking to God'
£29.75
Redcliffe Press Ltd Geoffrey and Jill Garnier: A Marriage of the Arts
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£13.46
Kettle's Yard Gallery Alfred Wallis Ships & Boats
Book SynopsisAlfred Wallis (1855-1942) is one of the most original and inspiring British artists of the 20th Century. Promoted by the artist Ben Nicholson amongst others, Wallis’s paintings influenced the development of British art between the wars. The directness of Wallis’ vision reflected a lifetime of living by and from the sea. His paintings are of what he knew, remembered and imagined. Yet they are also timeless stories about survival and the nature of our relationship with the world. As Jim Ede commented “Wallis is never local.” With over 70 illustrations, excerpts from letters and texts by Michael Bird, Ben Nicholson and Jim Ede, this book takes a fresh look at this extraordinary artist and his relationship to Kettle's Yard. It includes some of Wallis's best works from the Kettle’s Yard collection including many that are not normally on display, from ambitious paintings such as Saltash to what Wallis knew and loved best: ships and boats. Kettle's Yard, the University of Cambridge's modern and contemporary art gallery, holds the largest public collection of works by Alfred Wallis. Wallis was born in Devon. He was a fisherman and later a scrap-metal merchant in St. Ives. He took up painting in his later years, following the death of his wife in 1922. He was admired by Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood, who came across his work when visiting St. Ives in 1928 and included it in the Seven & Five Society’s exhibition of 1929. He died in Madron Poorhouse.
£11.40
Kettle's Yard Gallery Gustav Metzger Lift Off!
Book Synopsis“When I was young I wanted art that would lift off – that would levitate, gyrate, bring together different – perhaps contradictory aspects of my being” Gustav Metzger Gustav Metzger(1926-2017) was one of the foremost figures of the post-war avant-garde in Britain, with a career has spanned over 60 years of art and political activism. In 2014 Kettle’s Yard presented LIFT OFF! - an ambitious exhibition bringing together archive, film, sculpture and installations focusing on a less familiar but central area of Metzger’s practice – his auto-creative process driven work – the alter ego of his better-known auto-destructive practice. The exhibition marked something of a homecoming for Metzger, who began his artistic career at the Cambridge School of Art in 1944 and returned to deliver two seminal lecture/demonstrations (1960/1965) at the University of Cambridge. This publication documents the artist’s most ephemeral Auto-Creative artworks of the 1960s, and new works created by Metzger especially for LIFT OFF! It includes new texts by curator Elizabeth Fisher that illuminate this less well known aspect of Metzger’s practice.
£9.50
Kettle's Yard Gallery Savage Messiah: A biography of the sculptor Henri
Book SynopsisHenri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) was one of the leading figures of European avant-garde sculpture. Gaudier played an important role in the development of modern sculpture in Britain, working alongside Ezra Pound, Jacob Epstein, Roger Fry, Wyndham Lewis and others. Like many artists of his generation, his career was tragically cut short by the war. Having volunteered for the French army in the summer of 1914, he was killed in action the following year, at the age of just twenty-three. In 1930 Jim Ede, who three years earlier had acquired almost all of Gaudier’s work, published a biography of the sculptor. Entitled A life of Gaudier-Brzeska, the book was re-issued a year later with the title Savage Messiah. Ede’s book played an important role in re-establishing Gaudier’s reputation at a time when he was at risk of fading into obscurity. This new edition, published in 2011 to mark the centenary of Gaudier's arrival in Britain from France, includes previously unpublished material and new essays that re-contextualise the book art historically. It draws from the 1929 manuscript version of Ede's book, now in the archive at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, reproducing many of the drawings and photographs first used by Ede.
£12.50
Trolley Books The Natural History of Vedovamazzei
Book SynopsisVedovamazzei is the working name of Italian artists Stella Scala and Simeone Crispino. Classification and qualification seem almost to be the enemy of artistic endeavour. Yet this elliptical collation of the artists' ideas and hopes offers an insight into Vedovamazzei's creative process.
£22.49
Pindar Press Hieronymus Bosch: Late Work
Book SynopsisProfessor Charles D. Cuttler changed from artist to art historian at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, studying under distinguished teachers such as Walter Friedlaender and Erwin Panofsky. A specialist in Flemish painting, he spent the major part of his career teaching at the University of Iowa. He published numerous articles, reviews, and a well known text, Northern Painting. He lectured on Bosch on three continents, and his retirement enabled him to devote time to further research. A result is Hieronymus Bosch: Late Work. This new book presents Cuttler's discoveries on three late triptychs, a major trio of Bosch's maturity: the Haywain, the Lisbon Temptation of St. Anthony, and the Garden of Earthly Delights. He presents Bosch's unique view of Christ and salvation in union with hagiography, the Devotio moderna, and medieval hermeneutics, a revelation of Bosch's immense erudition and overwhelming artistry. Bosch reinforced his concepts with supporting casts of animals, natural and demonic, birds, and other iconographic elements. Analysis of the Berlin painting of St. John the Evangelist's apocalyptic vision of the Virgin Mary, the Madrid Seven Deadly Sins tondo, and the Vienna drawing of the Tree-Man expands our understanding of these themes. Other influences affecting Bosch's art, such as whether he travelled or whether he used contemporary prints, whether he drew upon Dante's Inferno, or religious tracts, and the attitudes of his ambience are also examined. The final chapter presents the author's understanding of Bosch, his religiosity and his genius, in his time and place.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction I Dante, Petrarch, the Triumph and Bosch II The Lisbon Temptation of St. Anthony III The Garden of Earthly Delights IV Animals, Birds and Demons V St. John on Patmos VI The Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins and The Tree Man VII Influences VIII Epilogue Bibliography Index
£114.00
Pindar Press Visible Spirit, Vol. II: The Art of Gian Lorenzo
Book SynopsisAs early as the 1950s, Professor Irving Lavin was recognized as a major voice in American art history. His sustained production of seminal scholarly contributions have left their mark on an astonishingly wide range of -subjects and fields. Bringing these far-reaching publications together will not only provide a valuable resource to scholars and -students, but will also underscore fundamental themes in the history of art - historicism, the art of commemoration, the relationship between style and meaning, the -intelligence of artists - themes that define the role of the visual arts in human communication. Irving Lavin is best known for his array of fundamental publications on the Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). These include new discoveries and studies on the master's prodigious childhood, his architecture and -portraiture, his invention of caricature, his depictions of religious faith and political leadership, his work in the -theatre, his attitude toward death and the role of the artist in the creation of a modern sense of social responsibility. All of Professor Lavin's papers on Bernini are here brought together in three volumes. The studies have been reset and in many cases up-dated, and there is a comprehensive index.Table of ContentsBernini and Antiquity - The Baroque Paradox. A Poetical View Bernini's Portraits of No-Body Bernini's Bust of Francesco I d'Este. "Impresa quasi impossibile" Bernini's Bust of the Medusa: An Awful Pun Bernini's Bust of the Savior and the Problem of the Homeless in Seventeenth-Century Rome Bernini's Image of the Ideal Christian Monarch Bernini's Bumbling Barberini Bees Bernini-Bozzetti: One More, One Less. A Berninesque Sculptor in Mid-Eighteenth Century France Bernini's Death Visions of Redemption The Rome of Alexander VII. Bernini and the Reverse of the Medal The Young Bernini "Bozzetto Style": The Renaissance Sculptor's Handiwork The Regal Gift. Bernini and his Portraits of Royal Subjects Urbanitas urbana. The Pope, the Artist, and the Genius of the Place Index
£44.10
Annely Juda Fine Art Yuko Shiraishi - Temperature
£18.00
D Giles Ltd Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman's New York
Book SynopsisHerbert Katzman's lyrical representations of contemporary New York are a stunning tribute to the artist's fascination with the skyline of his adopted city. 'Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman's New York' highlights a selection of his paintings and drawings produced over half a century, during which he worked largely outside the abstract art movement that dominated the mid-20th century. Included in the 1952 'Fifteen Americans' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Katzman went on to become an influential teacher at New York's School of Visual Arts and continued to work and exhibit until his death in 2004. This vibrant new volume traces his career from his arrival in New York in 1950 through the more abstract "New York School" paintings of the early sixties, to his later work which, with its emphasis on mood and muted colour, shows the influence of Turner, Whistler and the Hudson River School.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Susan Henshaw Jones, Ronay Menschel Director of the Museum of the City of New York Acknowledgements by Julia Blaut Remembering Herbert Katzman by Alison Lurie Herbert Katzman and MOMA's Fifteen Americans: Abstraction and Figuration in the Post-War Art World of New York by Julia Blaut Katzman and the Tradition of the Cityscape in American Art by Katherine Manthorne Paintings Drawings Sources Illustrated Chronology of the Artist's Life by Jillian Russo Exhibition History and Bibliography
£24.00
D Giles Ltd Alexis Rockman: a Fable for Tomorrow
Book Synopsis'Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow' traces the artist's career from 'Pond's Edge' (1986) to 'The Reef' (2009), with its timely reminder of the perils of off-shore oil drilling. Superficially easy viewing, Rockman's paintings subvert the optimism of the American dream with their mix of scientific precision and environmental degradation. This vividly illustrated volume highlights the attention to detail and striking use of colour which give Rockman's work an almost cinematic impact that is seldom seen in contemporary art. His compelling mix of intensely coloured realism, scientific detail and strong polemic, result in art that is both a demand for action and an elegy over what has been lost. Author Joanna Marsh worked closely with Rockman on the painting selection and convincingly links the various themes of the artist's work over three decades with the history of America's environmental movement. Highlights include 'Evolution' (1992), his first mural-sized painting, and 'Manifest Destiny' (2003-04), an ambitious large-scale work commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Rockman's ability to cross the boundary between fact and fiction appeals to both scientists and art critics.Table of ContentsForeword by Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Acknowledgments Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow by Joanna Marsh Plates Panoramas of the Post-Apocalypse: Rockman's Triptych, American Landscape, and Landscape Theater by Kevin J. Avery From Chameleons in the Curtains to Manifest Destiny by Thomas Lovejoy Accompanies an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, November 19th, 2010 - May 8th, 2011.
£28.00
Imperial War Museum Wyndham Lewis Life Art War Art Life and War
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£19.00
Other Criteria Disassembly Faisal Abduallah Christian Boltanski
Book SynopsisPublished to accompany the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London in November 2006, In the darkest hour there may be light provides a revealing and concise overview of Damien Hirst''s murderme collection to date. As Julia Peyton-Jones puts it in the Director''s Foreword to this beautifully produced catalogue, "Damien Hirst''s groundbreaking and controversial work has made him one of the world''s best-known living artists. From the start of his career, Hirst adopted the role of curator, organising a series of exhibitions with a group of young artists who would come to define cutting-edge art in the 1990s." Hirst has continually bought and collected works by artists who have inspired and influenced him, such as Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol and Richard Prince, by artists from his own generation such as Sarah Lucas, Angus Fairhurst and Marcus Harvey, and by those at the early stages of their careers such as Rachel Howard, Nicholas Lumb and Tom Ormond. Accompanying the 75 excellent full-color plates of works by the 24 artists exhibited in the show is a humorous but poignant essay by artist and writer Harland Miller reflecting on the idea of collecting from childhood, how obsessive it is, and what a collection is to a collector and to those who see a collection. But it is the interview between Hirst and Hans Ulrich Obrist that gives a direct insight into the motivation and reason behind the murderme collection, and how it relates to Hirst the artist and Hirst the curator. Completed over three months during the summer of 2006, this interview discusses everything from his most famous works, his drawings, influences, practice and attitude towards art, to new projects such as Toddington Manor and the Newport Street Gallery. In many respects ''In the darkest hour there may be light'' is perhaps the most comprehensive and intriguing project Hirst has done yet: "Collecting is the way the world works, as a human being. As you go through life, you just collect ... I always think collections are like a map of a man''s life."
£44.66
Verba Volant And Dreams of Home En Passant Par La Demeure
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