Books written by Jon Bird
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Rewriting Conceptual Art
Este falso informe incluira los nom- bres de los participantes, una indicacion del lugar y momento en que se realizo y una descripcion del espectaculo que se finge que ha ocurrido, con fotos tomadas a los supuestos participantes en ...
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Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement
An investigation into the future of travelling in a world where boundaries are shifting and dissolving. Amongst the issues covered are politics and identity, history and narration and the representation of other cultures.
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Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real
In this book, published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition traveling to Ireland, England and the United States, Jon Bird examines the artist's work from the classically influenced early paintings through depictions of conflict ...
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Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith
Once , a knife grinder rang the front door bell , and Natalia and her mother went out to watch him as he spun the wheel of his grindstone until sparks spouted outwards like dandelion spores on fire . And it so happens that this tight ...
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Rewriting Conceptual Art
Bird's essay on Robert Morris's 1971 Tate Gallery retrospective examines an early moment in Conceptual art's critique of social and cultural value systems and the possibility of a different kind of relation between work and viewer ...
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Leon Golub Powerplay: The Political Portraits
Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London running from March through November 2016, this collection of nearly all of Golub’s political portraits from 1975–1978, almost 100 paintings, offers a rich ...
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Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture
This collection considers how we might 'think' a future developing from emergent scientific theories and discourses.
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Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement
TRAVELLING TALES A public place around a train station. In Marrakesh. In Fez. In a city of words, told by a husky voice. In a body full of sentences, proverbs, and noises. There, a story is born. This body is a fountain.
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Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture
Futurenatural brings together leading theorists of culture and science to discuss the concept of 'nature'. Recent developments in biotechnologies, electronic media and ecological politics are discussed.
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Nancy Spero
American artist Nancy Spero (b.1929) concentrates on the depiction of women: mythological women, movie women, tortured women. Inspired by classical and modern sources, she collages and imprints her contemporary goddesses...
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Rachel Whiteread: House
Whiteread's House was a plastercast of a house in London which helped win her the Turner Prize. In this book 6 distinguished authors give their responses, along with pictures, tracing...
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Leon Golub Powerplay: The Political Portraits
"Accompanies the exhibition of Leon Golub's political portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London, March-September 2016" - introduction.