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The word is art / Michael Petry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0500239665
  • 9780500239667
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 704.949306 23
LOC classification:
  • N8219.L4 P48 2018
Contents:
Introduction -- Installed words -- Three-dimensional words -- Light -- New media -- The conceptual word -- Social comment -- The drawn word -- Books -- Further reading.
Summary: There has been much scaremongering about the 'death of the book', and how, as words find new ways and means of transmission, young people might gradually begin to shun writing. In the digital age, text becomes information, and information strives to become free. But what value can text hold in the sphere of visual art? How is such text different from poetry? Can the poetic itself be visual art, or is text in this context consigned to the realms of gimmick and catchphrase? Looking at the work of a broad range of artists including Bruce Nauman, Julien Breton, Jeremy Deller, Takashi Murakami, Tracey Emin, Christian Boltanski and many more, The Word is Art examines each of these questions, contending above all that in the digital and online age, words have become more important than ever.
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"Text and the written word in contemporary art"--Back cover.

Artists include: Ghiroa Aharoni ; Doug Aitken ; Meriç Algün ; Ghada Amer ; Shimon Attie ; Fabienne Audéoud ; Lisa Anne Auerbach ; Tim Ayres ; Maja Bajevic ; James Balmforth ; Fiona Banner ; Adam Bateman ; Sebastian Bieniek ; Beni Bischof ; Mel Bochner ; Monica Bonvicini ; Colin Booth ; Julien Breton ; Tania Bruguera ; Stefan Brüggemann ; Ildikó Buckley and Jane Palmer ; Bill Burns ; Tania Candiani ; Mircea Cantor ; Ben Carrick ; Olivier Castel ; Jake and Dinos Chapman ; Jack Cheetham ; Aristarkh Chernyshev ; Maria Chevska ; Maya Chowdhry ; Chun Kwang Young ; Bill Claps ; William Cobbing ; Dan Colen ; Nathan Coley ; Paul Coombs ; Martin Creed ; Elizabeth Croft ; Thedra Cullar-Ledford ; David Cunningham ; Hubert Czerepok ; Anka Dabrowska ; Jeremy Deller ; Alex Dipple ; Ralph Dunn ; Aleksandar Duravcevic ; Mark Dutcher ; Fred Eerdekens ; Gardar Eide Einarsson ; Roberto Ekholm ; Zena El Khalil eL Seed ; Ryan Everson and Jason Garcia ; Tom Fecht ; Golnaz Fathi ; Mark Flood ; Ceal Floyer ; Ana Fonseca ; Claire Fontaine ; FORT collective ; Eve Fowler ; Vibha Galhotra ; Kendell Geers ; Liam Gillick ; Pablo Gimencz-Zapiola ; Lukas Göthman ; Michelle Hamer ; He An ; Alexander Hidalgo ; Nicky Hirst ; Jenny Holzer ; Roni Horn ; Jonathan Horowitz ; Joseph Imhauser ; Hristina Ivanoska ; Nick Jeffrey ; Enrique Ježik ; So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi ; Deborah Kass ; Anatol Knotek ; Terence Koh ; Jukka Korkeila ; Joseph Kosuth ; Anouk Kruithof ; Mischa Kuball ; Darryl Lauster ; Sofia Leitão ; Massa Lemu ; Kurtis Lesick and Travis Kirton ; Simon Lewty ; Micah Lexier ; Liliane Lijn ; Glenn Ligon ; Simon Linke ; Liu Ye ; Zachari Logan ; George Henry Longly ; Willaim Mackrell ; Alan Magee ; Christian Marclay ; Edgar Martins ; Shinichi Maruyama ; Hassan Massoudy ; Andrea Mastrovito ; Josep Maynou ; Jorge Méndez Blake ; Niels Shoe Meulman ; Annette Messager ; Mil M2 ; Harland Miller ; Marta Minujin ; Christina Mitrentse ; Robert Montgomery ; Lisa Z. Morgan ; Simon Morley ; Bryan Mulvihill ; Kate Murdoch ; Shirin Neshat ; Tim Noble and Sue Webster ; Alexandre Ouairy ; Harvey Opgenorth ; Michelle Angela Ortiz ; Carl Ostendarp ; Joe Ovelman ; Eddie Peake ; Michael Petry ; Raymond Pettibon ; Jack Pierson ; Nicola Polonsky ; Elizabeth Price ; Laure Prouvost ; Ishmael Randall Weeks ; Rosana Ricalde ; Antonio Riello ; John Robertson ; Kay Rosen ; Luca Rossi ; Ed Ruscha ; Jason Salavon ; Sheldon Scott ; Miri Segal ; Michael Shaowanasai ; Fiona Shaw ; Shan Shan Sheng ; Shi Yong ; Santiago Sierra ; Bob and Roberta Smith ; SUSO33 ; Pilvi Takala ; Mark Themann; Hank Willis Thomas ; Thomson & Craighead ; Anne Thulin ; Tian Wei ; Rirkrit Tiravanija ; Mark Titchner ; Betty Tompkins ; Mathieu Tremblin ; TSANG Kin-Wah ; Nasan Tur ; Gavin Turk ; Nari Ward ; Lawrence Weiner ; Rachel Whiteread ; Aida Wilde ; Christopher Wool ; Cerith Wyn Evans ; Eric Yahnker ; Yang Zhichao ; Tim Youd ; Carey Young ; Zhang Huan ; Heimo Zobern.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Installed words -- Three-dimensional words -- Light -- New media -- The conceptual word -- Social comment -- The drawn word -- Books -- Further reading.

There has been much scaremongering about the 'death of the book', and how, as words find new ways and means of transmission, young people might gradually begin to shun writing. In the digital age, text becomes information, and information strives to become free. But what value can text hold in the sphere of visual art? How is such text different from poetry? Can the poetic itself be visual art, or is text in this context consigned to the realms of gimmick and catchphrase? Looking at the work of a broad range of artists including Bruce Nauman, Julien Breton, Jeremy Deller, Takashi Murakami, Tracey Emin, Christian Boltanski and many more, The Word is Art examines each of these questions, contending above all that in the digital and online age, words have become more important than ever.

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