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Universal Experience
Art, Life, And The Tourist'S Eye
by Emilia Kabakov, Peter Fischli, Matthew Buckingham, Robert Fitzpatrick, David Weiss, Carol Becker, Alain De Boton, Martin Parr, Lucy Lippard, Susan Sontag, Katherina Fritsch, Aleksandra Mir, Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Chris Burden, Ilya Kabakov, Jeff Koons, Gabriel Orozco, Simon Starling, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Piotr Uklanski, Francesco Bonami, Maurizio Cattelan, Nancy Spector, Thomas Struth, Kari Dahlgren
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2005 by D.A.P./Mca, Chicago
ISBN-13: 978-1-933045-02-3, ISBN: 1-933045-02-7

"Drawing from such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, economics, art criticism, and travel writing, Universal Experience is both a sizeable illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the MCA, Chicago and a companion to the experience of contemporary travel and tourism. This volume draws on the proliferation of research surrounding the social, geographic, and cultural dimensions of mobility and outputs this information as an antholog ..."

The Consolations of Philosophy - de Botton, Alain - Paperback
by Alain De Botton
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Penguin Books Ltd
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-103519-2, ISBN: 0-14-103519-6

Jessica Todd Harper(1st Edition)
The Home Stage
by Jessica Todd Harper, Alison Nordström, Alain De Botton, Alain De Boton
Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2014 by Damiani
ISBN-13: 978-88-6208-364-5, ISBN: 88-6208-364-5

"Though Jessica Todd Harper (born 1975) uses a camera rather than a paintbrush, the viewer quickly senses in her images the familiar canvases of Sargent, Whistler and Vermeer. Harper's naturalistic images pause or recreate real life for the camera; the play between the often-formal environment and her subjects--intimately portrayed family members--creates images that seem at once intimate and artificial. Her latest collection is thus apt ..."

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