TY - BOOK TI - Pressplay: contemporary artists in conversation SN - 0714845337 U1 - 709.22 21 PY - 2005/// CY - London, New York PB - Phaidon KW - Artists KW - Interviews KW - Art, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Biography N1 - Includes index; Vito Acconci -- Doug Aitken -- Uta Barth -- Christian Boltanski -- Louise Bourgeois -- Cai Guo-Qiang -- Maurizio Cattelan -- Vija Celmins -- Richard Deacon -- Mark Dion -- Stan Douglas -- Marlen Dumas -- Jimmie Durham -- Olafur Eliasson -- Peter Fischli and David Weiss -- Tom Friedman -- Isa Genzken -- Antony Gormley -- Dan Graham -- Paul Graham -- Hans Haacke -- Mona Hatoum -- Thomas Hirschhorn -- Jenny Holzer -- Roni Horn -- Ilya Kabakov -- Alex Katz -- Mike Kelley -- Mary Kelly -- William Kentridge -- Yayoi Kusama -- Robert Mangold -- Christian Marclay -- Paul McCarthy -- Cildo Meireles -- Lucy Orta -- Raymond Pettibon -- Richard Prince -- Pipilotti Rist -- Doris Salcedo -- Thomas Schütte -- Lorna Simpson -- Nancy Spero -- Jessica Stockholder -- Wolfgang Tillmans -- Luc Tuymans -- Jeff Wall -- Gillian Wearing -- Lawrence Weiner -- Franz West; Technical/Vocational/TAFE N2 - "Drawing together the complete Phaidon interviews with artists since 1995, pressPLAY is a collection of conversations with some of the world's best-known living artists. From highly established artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Alex Katz, to midcareer masters Peter Fischli and David Weiss and Jenny Holzer, to the current generation including Maurizio Cattelan and Pipilotti Rist, the artists in pressPLAY work in every variety of media - from painting to video, sculpture to installation. In discussion with key art critics as well as fellow artists, novelists, musicians and theorists, together the players in pressPLAY explain in full what it means to be an artist today."--BOOK JACKET; This title contains 50 personal encounters with the world's most significant living artists, interviewed by 50 key art thinkers today. It is a readable survey of contemporary art - painting, video, sculpture, photography, and installation - in the artists' own words ER -