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This is a lavishly illustrated overview of the groundbreaking Domino Canibal project in Spain. This superbly illustrated volume provides readers with an engaging and insightful overview of the groundbreaking Domino Canibal project. Held at a single venue over a 12-month period (Jan-Dec 2010), Domino Canibal allowed successive artists - including Jimmie Durham, Cristina Lucas, Tania Bruguera, and Francis Alys - to create new and original works by reinterpreting, demolishing, appropriating, and canibalising the work of preceding artists, creating a dynamic artistic process not normally found among other, more established forms of exhibition.

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The artist Fritzia Irízar questions the value of money and its purchasing power through objects taken out of their common environment which take on symbolic qualities. Irízar removes their monetary value and transforms the perception that viewers have of them. Text in English and Spanish.

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In 1952, Cuban-Mexican designer Clara Porset organized Mexico’s first design exhibition, “El arte en la vida diaria. Objetos de buen diseño hechos en México” (Art in daily life - well-designed objects made in Mexico).That show, together with Porset’s ideas, marked a turning point in the trajectory of design in Mexico by aspiring the unification of local traditions and the dream of industrialization. This colourful book surveys the genealogy of artisans, promoters, entrepreneurs and designers who have contributed to the development of Mexican handcrafted designs for the better part of the last seventy years, staking their claims on a hybrid or mestizo form of material culture and furnishing modern life with a locally specific way of producing objects.

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A fully updated and expanded edition of the artist's first comprehensive monograph, more than a decade since its original publication Francis Alÿs examines the patterns of various urban sites before weaving his own fables into their tangled social fabric with wit, sensitivity, and an acutely personal connection to his subject matter. A scene such as a Volkswagen Beetle struggling up a hill or a man pushing a block of ice can carry a message that resonates far beyond the work's simple parameters. As Alÿs puts it, 'Sometimes doing something poetic can become political, and sometimes doing something political can become poetic.'

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