Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects
$31.49
- Paperback
720 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2016
Summary
A unique opportunity to learn about the creative lives of the world’s leading artists and architects.
Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world’s greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses nineteen of the greatest figures and presents their conversations, offering the reader intimacy with the artists and insight into their creative processes. Inspired by the great Vasari, Lives of the Ar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141976631 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141976632 |
| Author: | Hans Ulrich Obrist |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 112mm x 181mm |
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Critics Review
“The interviews Mr. Obrist has conducted over the years currently add up to some 2,000 hours’ worth of tape … Through these interviews, Mr. Obrist has established himself as the unofficial secretary of the contemporary art world. ‘The way we might read Vasari for primary information on the Italian Renaissance, ’ said [Jeffrey] Deitch, ‘people will be looking at the archive of Hans Ulrich’s interviews to construct the art history of this era.”
– “New York Observer”Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and writer. Since 2006 he has been co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. He is the author of Ways of Curating and, with Ai Weiwei, of Ai Weiwei Speaks.
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