Installation art Books
Tate Publishing Haegue Yang: Strange Attractors
Book SynopsisBorn in South Korea in 1971, Haegue Yang is renowned for creating immersive environments from a diverse range of materials. Yang’s sculptures and installations conjure abstract narratives which play with our sensory pre-conceptions of scent, sound, light and tactility. Often using recognisable household objects, her work liberates forms from their functional context and applies new connotations and meanings to them. Interweaving industrially made objects with labour intensive and craft-based processes, Yang articulates her interest in folk and pagan cultures, and their deep connection with seasonal rituals in relation to natural phenomena. For this book and its accompanying exhibition at Tate St Ives, the context of the Cornish landscape and its ancient archaeological heritage is an important point of departure for Yang, whose work combines materials, theories and cultural references to make astute and surprising connections between local contexts and wider geographies and histories. Recurring themes of migration, postcolonial diasporas, political struggle and social mobility underpin Yang’s research, culminating in a body of work that is an apposite comment on our own time.
£17.99
Trolley Books Making Art Work: The Mike Smith Studio
Book SynopsisMike Smith Studios furnishes the architecture for the installations and sculptures of young British artists. This text unravels the activities of Mike Smith Studios, including its role in the creation of the work of such artists as Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum, and Mark Wallinger.
£32.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sculpture Parks and Trails of Britain & Ireland
Book SynopsisThe ultimate illustrated guide to the sculpture parks and trails of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. This exciting guide to the sculpture parks, trails and gardens of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales is the perfect book if you like art and the outdoors. Divided up into countries and regions, the book is informative as well as beautifully illustrated with fabulous images of sculptures by a broad array of international artists. The book gives you information on all the major sculpture venues of interest, featuring the best and most established, while also providing a wide range of other interesting places to visit and explore. Each feature provides directions of how to get there, along with an overview of the park or trail, and lists sculptures of particular interest and quality, while maps of each area will help you find places close by to visit. This makes it easy to see which places are suited to you depending on your preferences, level of interest and time available. This fully revised 2nd edition provides updated information and new entries for England, as well as brand new sections providing thorough coverage of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. It is an ideal guide if you have a passion for both nature and sculptures, or if you are looking for ideas for a fun family day out.Trade ReviewThis comprehensively illustrated guide provides both an idea of where you might want to go, how to get there and what to see when you do ... This is a well thought-out and attractively-presented guide that should be of interest to the serious student or the curious traveller. * Art Book Review *This guide contains all the information you could want in order to plan a visit. Arranged geographically, it provides location information as well as details of opening times, prices and a summary of what to look out for when you're there. For me, though, the real treat is the generous illustrations. If you like modern sculpture, they're a pure feast and provide a real sense of what's out there. For all those parks you maybe can't get to, this book is not a bad substitute. It will, however, also whet your appetite. Sixty-six parks are included, from the can't-miss Yorkshire Sculpture Park to the hadn't-thought-of-that Derek Jarman's garden at Dungeness. The only problem is: do you keep it in the house or in the car? -- Henry Malt * The Artist *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. England The North-East The North-West The Midlands The South-East The West Country 2. Scotland 3. Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland 4. Wales Index
£25.50
Actes Sud Narcissus Theorem
Book SynopsisFrom September 2021, Jean-Michel Othoniel will be taking over the whole of the Petit Palais and its garden. It will be the biggest exhibition devoted to the artist in Paris since the My Way retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2011. The Petit Palais itself and its history will provide the running thread of the exhibition, the works entering into a dialogue with the architecture of the building and its garden. For the occasion, Othoniel has come up with the Narcissus Theorem focusing on the man of the beautiful flower who in his own reflection also reflects the world around him. Narcissism is not always a neurosis and can play a positive role in aesthetic creation. And sublimation is not always the negation of desire but can be a means of engaging with an ideal. Whereupon Narcissus no longer says ‘I love myself as I am’ but rather ‘I am as I love myself’. Featuring over 70 new works, the ‘Narcissus Theorem’ exhibition weaves the artist’s spell once again and explores the theory of reflections that he has been developing for nearly a decade in conjunction with the Mexican mathematician Aubin Arroyo, imbuing his recurring themes with a fresh and visionary meaning in the world of today. The exhibition welcomes us with a river of a thousand shimmering blue bricks flowing down the main staircase of the Petit Palais, indicating the start of the path that we will be following. Inspired by the sumptuous architectural flourishes of the Petit Palais and the flowers of its garden, the artist has installed some twenty new works: mirrored pieces that reflect the frescoes of the peristyle painted by Paul Baudoüin, monumental water lilies placed on the mirrors of the water basins with their blue mosaics, gold necklaces attached to the branches of trees from the Orient, and pearls niched in the peristyle. The Crown of the Night comes from a forest in northern Europe and for a long time this sculpture was hidden beneath the 300-year old oaks of a cathedral-like forest. And now, like a coloured glass spider, it majestically fills the dome of the palace’s northern staircase. Narcissus’s grotto awaits us at the foot of the staircase, where we find the whole universe of reflections so central to Othoniel’s art and astutely orchestrated by Aubin Arroyo, including the two-tone Precious Stonewall and monochrome triptychs. The wild knots created over the course of nearly a decade are like Borromean rings in which we discover our own reflections and which reflect themselves in an endless mise en abyme.
£21.00
Hirmer Verlag Wolfgang Laib in Florence: Without Time, Without
Book SynopsisIn 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of pollen and beeswax. The publication documents impressively this unique and spectacular art event. Following an invitation from the Museo Novecento in Florence, Wolfgang Laib – one of the outstanding artists of the present day – created five works in four of the city’s main sights, including the convent of San Marco and the Pazzi Chapel. In their juxtaposition with the historic masterpieces, the delicate pollen sculptures and the imposing beeswax ziggurat cause the contrast between present and past, physical place and endless space, and real and spiritual life to become blurred and lead us towards the central questions of life.
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag Wiebke Siem (Bilingual edition): The Maximal
Book SynopsisWiebke Siem (1954 Kiel, DE – Berlin, DE) became known in the 1990s for extensive installations in which she alienated everyday objects, such as pieces of clothing, shoes, bags, or toys, or transformed them into oversized objects. Wiebke Siems uses pieces of furniture, objects, and materials with domestic connotations and whimsical, often puppet-like figures to create psychologically charged installations that are as oppressive as they are humorous and that raise questions about societal role models. Siem’s art repeatedly employs a formal language and a mode of presentation that refer to ethnological objects and collections. This enables her to comment on Modernism’s problematic appropriation strategies toward non-European art. In addition to borrowing motifs from art and cultural history, Siem critically engages the mechanisms of the male-dominated art business – a central theme in her oeuvre.
£28.00
Steidl Publishers Joseph Beuys: Intuition!: Dimensions of the Early
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£36.00
Skira Otobong Nkanga (Bilingual edition): Of Cords
Book SynopsisCurator, researcher and scholar Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is the Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea. Art historian, curator and author of multiple publications, Marcella Beccaria is Chief Curator and Curator of Collections at Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea. Marianna Vecellio is Curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea.
£31.50
Skira Gisela Colon
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£41.25
Getty Trust Publications Ephemeral Monuments – History and Conservation of
Book SynopsisThis is an indispensible volume for creators, curators, and conservators of installation art. Installation art is an evolving, often ephemeral medium that defies rigid categorization. It has also radically transformed the concepts of space, time, and the experience of art. The conservation field is faced with unique challenges over how best to manage and preserve the essence of these works. How detailed can documentation get? When does the replacement of original components become acceptable? How does the field cope with the obsolescence of certain technologies? By exploring the questions and dilemmas facing those who care for art installations, this book intends to raise awareness and promote discussion about the various conservation approaches for these works.
£42.75
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Guido Baselgia: Light Fall
Book SynopsisCelestial mechanics have fascinated mankind in all known cultures. Many artists throughout history have been captivated by the spectacle we observe above us day and night. Swiss photographer Guido Baselgia has expanded the focus of his work on the sky, with the stellar and solar movements and phenomena as we see them from earth. In his most recent work Light Fall, Baselgia makes traceable the trajectory of celestial bodies invisible to the human eye and shows astounding occurrences of light and shadow. Taken in Norway, the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in Argentina, in Ecuador, and the Swiss Alps, the images visualise the geometry of astrodynamics and celestial mechanics. His photography also captures the phenomenon of umbra, planet earth's shadow thrown into space. The new book Guido Baselgia - Light Fall features 80 stunning tritone plates. Complemented with essays by German scholar Andrea Gnam and Swiss photography critic Nadine Olonetzky, they offer a window into the light phenomena that leave us awestruck today as much as they did our ancestors.
£52.50
Silvana Marco Tirelli
Book SynopsisThe volume offers a historical-critical study on the entire career of Marco Tirelli (Rome,1956). His production - surprising and enigmatic - includes works on paper, works on canvas or wood, sculptures, installations, whose subjects always appear poised between recognisability and abstraction: the figures and scenes represented are made up of a densification of microscopic particles of colours that from a distance seem well defined, but which, when viewed from a short distance, break down. A subtle, intellectual painting, therefore, the result of an introspective investigation carried out with dedication. The same tension between illusion and reality, between light and shadow, also characterises the sculptures and installations, as documented in these pages. The volume includes a historical-critical essay by Antonella Soldaini, a conversation with the artist, a biographical note and a documentary summary. Text in English and Italian.
£38.40
Yale University Press Jitish Kallat
Book SynopsisThe Swami Vivekananda's speech to the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 is the centrepiece of Indian artist. The installation went on view at the Art Institute of Chicago exactly 108 years after Vivekananda delivered his address calling for an end to 'bigotry and fanaticism'. This title documents the installation.
£17.10
JRP Ringier David Maljkovic: Sources in the Air
Book SynopsisSources in the Air accompanies David Maljkovic's three-part exhibition of the same name at the Van Abbemusem, Eindhoven, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and GAMeC, Bergamo. Including films, sculpture, collage and installations from the past ten years, Sources in the Air is the artist's most comprehensive survey to date.
£26.10
Taschen GmbH Christo and Jeanne-Claude. L’Arc de Triomphe,
Book Synopsis1961, three years after meeting Jeanne-Claude in Paris, Christo made a study of a mammoth project that would wrap one of the city’s most emblematic monuments. 60 years, 25,000 square meters of recyclable fabric, and 3,000 meters of rope later, the artists' vision finally came true. Discover their posthumous installation with this book gathering photography, drawings, and a history of the project's making. Like most of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work, L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped is temporary and runs for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. Carried out in close collaboration with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, the historic structure is wrapped in recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue and recyclable red rope. The project is the posthumous realisation of a long-held dream for Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who first drew up plans to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in 1961 while renting a small room near the monument. Published as a tribute to the late artists and their lifelong partnership, the book includes original sketches, technical data, and exclusive photography, creating a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the genesis of this prodigious artwork.Trade Review“Gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at the mammoth temporary art installation.” * nymag.com *“…the genesis of the artistic duo’s dream to wrap the Parisian monument.” * itsnicethat.com *“I never thought it would ever happen… But I want you to know that many of these projects can be built without me. Everything is already written.” * Christo *“A fascinating behind-the-scenes look.” * creativeboom.com *“Delves into the history and planning of L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped.” * theartnewspaper.com *
£23.75
Kehrer Verlag The Saints
Book SynopsisDocuments the Artangel supported video installation which was presented for the opening of the new Wembley Stadium.
£28.79
Arnoldsche Martin Bruno Schmid: Almost Nothing – Fast Nichts
Book SynopsisGerman artist Martin Bruno Schmid (b. 1970) works at the intersection of art and architecture; his tools are drills, saws, and sandpaper, his process includes hammering, shredding, and cutting. Material is extracted, and rarely applied. Schmid addresses the very subject of construction itself with his minimalistic and exceptionally radical interventions in public spaces. In doing so he pushes the frontiers of what is feasible and makes visible what we take for granted. His interventions are a celebration of all the technologies of civilisation that enable us to spend our lives protected and safe, but they are also a test of our certitude. This latest monograph on his work provides a comprehensive insight into Schmid’s widely varied oeuvre and opens a gateway to the Stuttgart artist’s creative world. Text in English and German.
£33.60
MER Paper Kunsthalle Frank Depoorter & Lore Rabaut: Book, a Room
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£27.55
Luath Press Ltd Burnsiana: Artworks and Poems Inspired by the
Book SynopsisThis unique reflection on the world of Robert Burns places a range of photographic artworks by celebrated Scottish artist Calum Colvin alongside poems written in response to each work by 'weel-kent' Scots poet Rab Wilson. Colvin's multi-referential artworks are concerned with the very process of looking, perceiving and interpreting. The potential meaning of any individual piece is intrinsically linked to the viewer’s personal deconstruction of the image. Utilising the unique fixed-point perspective of the camera, Colvin creates and records manipulated and constructed images in order to create elaborate narratives which meditate on numerous aspects of Scottish culture, identity and the human condition in the early 21st century. At times witty, controversial and tender, the images are presented alongside poems in response by Rab Wilson which equally reflect on the life and aspects of Burns to dwell on who we are, and where we have been, toward what we may become. As Burns reflected through his art the world he inhabited, these works and words strive to reflect on a myriad of contemporary concerns.
£12.34
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Studio Mirko Baselgia: )in(out) till sundown
Book SynopsisSwiss artist Mirko Baselgia, born in 1982, already made a name for himself internationally in the first decade of his career. Baselgia works within the context in which he lives and with the conditions available to him. His works appear to be calm and soulful, unassuming and endless. They invite the viewer to pause and reflect on their place on planet earth. Philosophical and scientific questions are reflected by means of the local, natural, and recycled materials Baselgia uses. This book offers a snapshot of Mirko Baselgia’s current creativity and is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. Its subtitle )in(out) till sundown refers to a quote by the Scottish-American author John Muir (1838–1914): “I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” Baselgia’s art also stimulates reflection on the meaning of inside and outside, the boundaries that separate us from our surroundings, as well as their permeability. Text in English and German.
£21.25
Kerber Christof Verlag Ana Strika
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£24.65
Kerber Christof Verlag Clara S. Rueprich
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£28.50
Taschen GmbH Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Book SynopsisThe work of the artist couple Christo (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935–2009) resists categorization. It is a hybrid of art, urban planning, architecture, and engineering, but above all an aesthetic uniquely their own: surreal and ethereal environmental interventions that have graced monuments, public parks, and centers of power alike. This compact book spans the complete career of the couple who were born on the very same day, met in Paris, fell in love, and became a creative team like no other. With rich illustration, it spans Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s earliest projects in the 1950s right through to The Floating Piers, installed at Lake Iseo, Italy, in 2016. The book celebrates all of the couple’s most famous environmental interventions, such as The Gates in New York’s Central Park and the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin, while also featuring early drawings and family photos unknown to the wider public.
£17.51
Anagram Books Tönend hallt die Jugend
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£44.10
Spector Books Christopher Dell: The Working Concert
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£28.00
Spector Books Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques: Sub Rosa
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£26.60
Spector Books Hito Steyerl
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£28.80
Press Forlaget Marianne Heier: Mirage
Book SynopsisMirage is an installation by Norwegian artist Marianne Heier (born 1969), consisting of ten identical drinking-water wells equipped with hand pumps and basins. One of the wells is drilled into a mountain in Norway, and nine more are located in Malawi, Africa.
£37.40
Forma Edizioni Vittorio Messina
Book SynopsisSicilian post-war and contemporary artist Vittorio Messina (b.1946), graduated from the Valle Giulia Faculty of Architecture in Rome, and his career incorporates a life-long interest in forms and materials linked with architecture. He is known for his striking installations, sculptures, and videos, and his work is often rooted in a space where the physical and the philosophical meet in cell-like constructions that are primarily formed from everyday objects that embody elusive and subtle uneasiness. His early training in architecture is seen in projects that reflect on the conditions, emotional as well as concrete, of urban life. This well-illustrated overview of his career is presented in three essays by noted art historians.
£36.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle Anouk Declercq: Oops Wrong Planet
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£19.00
John Wiley & Sons Place Matters Critical Topographies in Word and
Book SynopsisBordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and reflect on place.Trade Review“No other volume offers such a resonant dialogue of media, academic inquiry, and artwork. Productively framed by the notion of critical topography, Place Matters is both creative and analytical, wide-ranging but focused. It presents the state of the art in spatial studies and speaks urgently to current political concerns.” Ina Habermann, University of Basel and author of Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness
£105.40
McGill-Queen's University Press Place Matters
Book SynopsisBordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and reflect on place.Trade Review“No other volume offers such a resonant dialogue of media, academic inquiry, and artwork. Productively framed by the notion of critical topography, Place Matters is both creative and analytical, wide-ranging but focused. It presents the state of the art in spatial studies and speaks urgently to current political concerns.” Ina Habermann, University of Basel and author of Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness
£38.25
MIT Press Ltd Negative Space Trajectories of Sculpture in the
Book SynopsisA bold new spatial perspective on modern sculpture, with 800 color images of work by artists including Henry Moore, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, and Ana Mendieta.This monumental, richly illustrated volume from ZKM Karlsruhe approaches modern sculpture from a spatial perspective, interpreting it though contour, emptiness, and levitation rather than the conventional categories of unbroken volume, mass, and gravity. It examines works by dozens of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists, including Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Ana Mendieta, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomás Saraceno, and Alicja Kwade. The large-scale book contains over 800 color images. Negative Space comes out of an epic exhibition at ZKM, and volume editor Peter Weibel (Chairman and CEO of ZKM) takes a curatorial approach to the topic. The last exhibition to deal comprehensively with the question “What is modern s
£54.40
Yale University Press Max Neuhaus
Book SynopsisIn 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. Known as Times Square, the celebrated installation was restored in 2002. This book takes considers the singular impact this artist has had in establishing sound as a medium in contemporary art.
£23.75
Princeton University Press Edgar Degas Sculpture
Book SynopsisAs an artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) defies easy description. Including essays on Degas' life and work, his sculptural technique and materials, and the story of the sculptures after his death, this title features art-historical and technical discussions of various works in the collection of National Gallery of Art, Washington.Trade Review"Edgar Degas Sculpture is the sumptuously illustrated, richly documented catalogue of the important collection of Degas sculpture in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C... [A] penetrating, eye-opening presentation of Degas' work in this other medium, which too often is relegated to the sideline of his work as a painter."--Choice
£85.50
Princeton University Press The Iconography of the Sarcophagus of Junius Bas
Book SynopsisCarved for a Roman city prefect who was a newly baptized Christian at his death, the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus is not only a magnificent example of "the fine style" of mid-fourth-century sculpture but also a treasury of early Christian iconography clearly indicating the Christianization of Rome--and the Romanization of Christianity. Whereas mostTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*Figures, pg. xvii*Tables and Diagrams, pg. xxi*1. Introduction, pg. 1*2. Interpretations, pg. 22*3. Intercolumniations, pg. 39*4. Spandrels, pg. 72*5. Ends, pg. 91*6. Lid, pg. 104*7. Compositional and Ornamental Elements, pg. 120*8. Integration, pg. 127*Notes, pg. 155*Bibliography, pg. 231*Index of Biblical Citations, pg. 245*Index of Ancient Authors, pg. 247*Index of Modern Authors, pg. 249*Index of Subjects, pg. 253*Plates, pg. 257
£36.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Creating Concrete Art Furniture
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£23.79
University of Minnesota Press Space Site Intervention
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£19.79
Rizzoli International Publications Clay Pop
Book SynopsisClay Pop documents the reinvention of ceramic sculpture by a new generation of artists.
£40.00
David Paul Absence and Loss Holocaust Memorials in Berlin
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£11.99
The University of North Carolina Press Subcritical Third Culture Field Notes
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£17.00
Getty Trust Publications David Lamelas - A Life of Their Own
Book SynopsisThe renowned Argentinian conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre, which shows his work to be evocative, restive, and exhilarating. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist's work in the United States, offers an incisive look into Lamelas's art. The guiding analytic theme in this book is the artist's adaptability to place and circumstance, which invariably influences his creative production. Lamelas left Argentina in the mid-1960s to study at Saint Martin's in London. Since then, he divides his time among various cities. While the typical narrative invoked about artists like Lamelas is that of "internationalism," Lamelas has always been more "postnational" than "international" in his nomadic movement, from one place or conceptual framework to the next.
£999.99
Power Publications What Is Installation?: An Anthology of Writings
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£16.19
Art Gallery of Ontario He Named Her Amber
Book SynopsisIn 2007 Iris Haussler was invited to create a work for the inauguration of the newly transformed Art Gallery of Ontario. She proposed an elaborate in situ piece entitled He Named her Amber to be located in The Grange, a 19th century mansion now part of the Gallery. Haussler presented a complex narrative around an young Irish woman who had worked as a maid at the Grange. Mysteriously bequeathed papers revealed that Mary O''Shea had over the years hidden objects and documents in and around the house. Subsequently, Archaeological Services Ontario (ASO) found a veritable Pandora''s box of items and, since opening in 2008, thousands of visitors have toured the site. Only after the event did the artist and the Gallery reveal to the world that He Named He Amber was a commissioned work of art and not an historical find. Thematically structured around Narrative, Disclosure and Analysis, this profusely illustrated publication documents a daring public artwork with essays and comments from artist, curator, critics, and from visitors with sharply divided views. By making art based upon direct experience rather than theoretical discourse, and by questioning the traditional authority of the museum, Haussler''s work aims to redefine and reignite the relationship between art, artist and spectator. In Opening Gambits: Essays on Art and Philosophy (Key Porter Books, 2009), Mark Kingwell calls her work "haptic conceptual". Iris Haussler is known for hersite specific installations in which she constructs fictitious personae in real environments. Locations have included rented apartments, hotel rooms and a residential home. Haussler has also exhibited at The Jewish Museum and The AIDS Memorial, both in Munich. Born in Germany, Iris Haussler lives and works in Toronto.
£22.94
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Public Art in Vancouver: Angels Among Lions
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£999.99
Royal Academy of Arts Cornelia Parker: Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)
Book SynopsisIn October 2018 Cornelia Parker's Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) lands in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. This meticulous and unsettling installation - first shown on the roof of The Metropolitan Museum of Art against the skyline of New York's Central Park - is half stage set, half sculpture. The work, which draws on archetypal images of American culture such as the red barn and the infamous Bates motel from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, will now be seen against a backdrop of Burlington House's neoclassical buildings. Cornelia Parker was elected a Royal Academician in 2009. She has since had solo shows at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, and the Frith Street Gallery, London. She is well known for her installations, including Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991), a reconstruction of an exploded shed, which now forms part of Tate's collection. Generously illustrated with supporting imagery and installation shots, this book comprises a conversation with the artist and a text on the work's installation in London. Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) will be on display in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, from October 2018 to March 2019.
£11.66
Gregory R Miller & Company Ellen Harvey: Museum of Failure
Book SynopsisFrom her earliest experiments with painting old-master landscapes as graffiti on the streets of New York, to her recent project The Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington, DC (2013) at the Corcoran in Washington, DC, Ellen Harvey (born 1967) has applied her unique and humorous perspective to unpacking the history of art and aesthetics. Taking its title from the ongoing project featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, a rear-illuminated wall of plexiglass mirrors in ornate frames, The Museum of Failure is the first major retrospective publication on the artist's work, looking at each of her major projects and bodies of work of the past 20 years. Harvey's practice incorporates painting, photography, video, installation and public participation to examine our expectations about art and cultural production, their proper contexts and what constitutes appropriate engagement, all with a disarming charm. The book includes a new text on the artist by curator Henriette Huldisch and an in-depth interview with the artist by curator Adam Budak.
£42.50
Kerber Verlag Emeka Ogboh: This Too Shall Pass
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2021, the Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh (*1977) transformed the centre of Frankfurt into a sound landscape on water and on land. The sound installation is dedicated to the city of Frankfurt am Main and offers a possible response to the crisis-ridden year 2020. For Emeka Ogboh, music is a medium for connecting people, regardless of their language, background, or religious denomination. The catalogue documents the staging of THIS TOO SHALL PASS in the city and provides insights into the creation and conception of the work with accompanying text contributions. Parts of the sound installation are made accessible through the integration of augmented-reality elements. Text in English and German.
£36.80
