Richard Prince is a prominent American conceptual artist who takes existing images from mass media and recontextualises them to critique American consumerism, desire, sex, and power. Adult, Comedy, Action, Drama is a visual "autobiography through words and pictures," utilising a DIY scrapbook aesthetic. It contains 235 color illustrations, juxtaposing Prince's own artwork with images he has collected from consumer culture.
This book – part manual, part inventory, part research file – includes the complete list of Michael Landy's possessions, drawings, photographs, a collage of research materials as well as a section of photographs from the installation of the work in Oxford Street in London, February 2001.
Over three years in the making, BREAK DOWN is one Michael Landy’s most extreme projects in which he made an inventory of his life. This book compiles the list of all his possessions.
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“Shifting Cosey Fanni Tutti from noun to verb” & “discussing and theorising Cosey as methodology,” this book follows the one-day event conceived by Maria Fusco, in collaboration with Richard Birkett, at ICA London, on March 27, 2010.
This book presents Hockney's designs for costumes, masks, and sets in an exploration of the artist's approach to working with ballets and operas.
Abramovic defines "Inbetween" as the place between departure and arrival—or the space one inhabits while in transit. The sketches, hastily written notes, collages made from found and accumulated scraps, and photographs that are included in this bookwork are a chronicle of her visit to this temporal resting-place. Part diary, part work notebook, we are offered an intimate glimpse of Abramovic’s observations and thoughts during her residency in Japan. Printed on a heavy printmaking stock.
Indian Circus is documentary photography at its finest. Mary Ellen Marks' photographs are not only compelling portraits of the performers, but also eloquent and poetic narratives about life in the Indian circus.
Part of a lineage of 20th artists who created a French humanist tradition, Israel ‘Izis’ Biderman's study of the circuses position him as one of the most adept, astute, and empathetic photographers of his age. Avoiding the typical voyueristic tropes of circus documenters of the time, Biderman was gentle and warm without being sentimental, bringing a truth to the circus performers he photographed. Each image is rich in humanity and Biderman never strays from his goal to show real people.
Looks is the definitive guide to the looks designed and, in these photographs, worn by Leigh Bowery. One of Britain's most heroically ambitious designers and performance artists, Bowery remains an inspiration to many fashion designers today.
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Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. This book is a collection of some of her most influential works.
Swiss performance artist, Manon, was a pioneer of body and performance art in the 1970s. In her ambivalent depiction of female identity, she deliberately affirmed gender roles as well as their subversion. Through a series of photographic images, this book illustrates the artist’s interest in personal redefinition, through taking up her own body as both medium and metaphor.
Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill began contributing to the development, promotion and dissemination of performance art in the 1980s. Their archive is compiled into this book for the first time, a large selection of photographs and essays serve recreates the physical presence of the participants and the atmosphere of their performances.
Founded in 1947, the Living Theatre is the oldest experimental theatre group still existing in the U.S. Inside this book, the Living Theatre's point-of-view is expressed in words and photographs alternating between daily life and the stage, including poetic and political statements.
Mapplethorpe's photographs for Jan Fabre's internationally performed Power of Theatrical Madness were taken during his 1985 stay in Antwerp, Belgium. The photos are interspersed in this volume with Fabre's working drawings for the performance. Approaching similar themes through different mediums, "Mapplethorpe and Fabre metamorphose their subject matter, photographed or staged, so that the body is `compromised' in a sublimation of itself. With an introduction by Kathy Acker.