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This book provides a unique insight into Mark Wallinger's approach to art and life. Illustrated with over 100 plates that bring together historical and contemporary works, that reach from a Roman double portrait of Dionysus and Silenus, through to Durer woodcuts, early photographic pioneering works, a trompe l'oeil sculpture by Vija Celmins, and a video by Aernout Mik; this is an artist's exploration of the frontiers and border zones through which, by which we come to be defined.
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'On Display' is a large format collection of highlights from the Hayward Gallery's archive of exhibition posters. The archive acts as both a who's-who of contemporary art and a compilation of some of Britain's finest exhibition poster design.
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Following the 2010 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills, this magnificent set of slipcased books captures the grandness and lushness of the epic photographs of Andreas Gursky, one of the world’s greatest living photographers. In these new works, Gursky demonstrates that a photographer can make or construct--rather than simply take--photographs about modern life and produce them on the scale of epic painting. Just as history painters of previous centuries found their subjects in the realities of everyday life, he seeks inspiration in his observations of the human species in the world, whether firsthand or via reports of global phenomena in the daily media. The resulting pictures hav...
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Kiss My Genders celebrates the work of more than 20 international artists whose practices explore and engage with gender fluidity, as well as non-binary, trans and intersex identities.Featuring works from the late 1960s and early 1970s through to the present, and focusing on artists who draw on their own experiences to create content and forms that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender.Working across painting, immersive installations, sculpture, text, photography and film, many of these artists treat the body as a sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty, and representations of the human form.This publication includes texts from writers, theorists,...