Francis Alÿs, 9780714875002
Hardcover
Art meets life: walking, fables, and politics intertwine in urban spaces.

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  • Hardcover

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    21 April 2019

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Summary

Francis Alÿs: Art Walking the Line Between Poetic and Political

A leaking can of paint in hand, the artist strolls out of the gallery and drifts aimlessly through the city, leaving a trail of colour as he goes. So what kind of artwork is The Leak (1995)? In one sense it’s a painting, but a painting too large for any museum. It’s also a performance, though one without an audience. Perhaps most of all, it’s an invitation to take the artist’s line for a walk, to explore the sa…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780714875002
ISBN-10:0714875007
Series:Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series
Author:Russell Ferguson, Jean Fisher, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Michael T. Taussig
Publisher:Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint:Phaidon Press Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:21 April 2019
Weight:1.86kg
Dimensions:290mm x 250mm x 26mm
About The Author

Russell Ferguson

Michael Taussig is a writer and anthropologist based in New York.

Russell Ferguson is Chairman of the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Adjunct Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, where he has organized the exhibitions ‘Wolfgang Tillmans’ (2006), ‘The Undiscovered Country’ (2004) and ‘Christian Marclay’ (2003).

Cuauhtémoc Medina is a writer and curator based in Mexico City. He is researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the National University of Mexico, Mexico City, and is Associate Curator, Latin American Art Collections, at Tate Modern, London. He has written on such artists as Santiago Sierra, Brian Jungen and Teresa Margolles, as well as on a number of historical subjects, including the Fluxus movement. He has also written extensively on the work of Francis Alÿs and has collaborated on several of the artist’s most significant projects, including When Faith Moves Mountains (2002).

Jean Fisher (1942-2016) was the editor of the journal Third Text, the anthologies Global Visions: A New Internationalism in the Visual Arts (1994), Reverberations: Tactics of Resistance, Forms of Agency in Trans/cultural Practices (2000) and Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture (2005, with Gerardo Mosquera). She was also the author of a book of essays, Vampire in the Text (2003), on contemporary art and culture. She also taught at Middlesex University and the Royal College of Art, London.

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