"The more than twenty contributions in this book, all new and previously unpublished, provide an up-to-date survey of contemporary research on computational modeling of the visual system. The approaches represented range from neurophysiology to psychophysics, and from retinal function to the analysis of visual cues to motion, color, texture, and depth. The contributions are linked thematically by a consistent consideration of the links b ..."
"British artist Michael Landy (b. 1963) is known primarily as an installation artist. His work, along with others associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs), was first catapulted to the world spotlight when it was featured in the notorious "Sensation "exhibition (1997). His sculptural installations and performances explore political and social themes, such as the nature of consumerism and commodity.In 2009, Landy began a three-year ..."
MichaelLandy(1st Edition) Everything Must Go! by Other MichaelLandy, Ram Publications Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by Ridinghouse ISBN-13: 978-1-905464-18-0, ISBN: 1-905464-18-5
"Famous for destroying everything he owned, this first major monograph of Michael Landy’s work surveys both his large-scale installations and lesser-known sculpture to illustrate the artist’s joyful inventiveness.Richly illustrated in full colour, this book surveys his earliest work, including lesser-known sculptures – such as Sovereign shown at Freeze in 1988 – to large-scale installations Market, Closing Down Sale and Scrapheap Service ..."
"In February, 2001, performance artist Michael Landy spent a couple of weeks in a publicplace destroying every single one of his possessions. This book is a detailed list - andonly a list - of everything he destroyed: 7227 items in all, ranging from a roll of faxpaper to a car to a Damien Hurst resin paperweight. When all was reduced to rubble, heburied the remains, weighing 5.75 tons, in a landfill site. This audacious project (a TheTim ..."
"In 1960, Dadaist artist Jean Tinguely took three weeks to build a self-destroyingmachine, Homage to New York, and it combusted in 27minutes in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art as a star-studdedaudience looked on. Forty-seven years later, British artist Michael Landyhas created an homage to Tinguely's Homage. Using photos, films andremains of Tinguely's original work, Landy produced these 40 whimsical,detailed studies on paper for ..."
" JBuilder Developer's Guide provides comprehensive coverage of JBuilder from the practitioner's viewpoint. The authors develop a consolidated application throughout the chapters, allowing conceptual cohesion and illustrating the use of JBuilder to build 'real-world' applications. The examples can be compiled and run under JBuilder Personal edition, a free edition of JBuilder. JBuilder Developer's Guide is not version specific but exp ..."
"New is a selection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's most recent acquisitions of contemporary British art, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, works on paper, installations, artist books and a DVD projection. Revealing the broad range of ideas and media used by artists working in Britain today, this book examines, in detail, over 150 works by over eighty artists. The selection includes many of the artists who ha ..."
"Since the early 1990s Michael Landy has built a reputation as one of the most exciting and challenging artists working in Britain. Until Semi-detached, he was best known for Break Down 2001, in which he systematically and publicly destroyed all of his possessions. Created at Tate Britain, Semi-detached is a life-sized replica of Landy's family home in Essex, inspired by the artist's father, a former tunnel miner who was injured in an in ..."
"With artist's drawings and sketches, research documentation, plans and correspondence, Making Art Public provides the reader with insight into how complex public art projects are brought to life."
MichaelLandy(1st Edition) Market (an exhibition catalogue) by MichaelLandy, Kate Bush, Building One Paperback, 34 Pages, Published 1990 by Building One Import ISBN-13: 978-1-873542-00-2, ISBN: 1-873542-00-3
"Visual science is the model system for neuroscience, its findings relevant to all other areas. This essential reference to contemporary visual neuroscience covers the extraordinary range of the field today, from molecules and cell assemblies to systems and therapies. It provides a state-of-the art companion to the earlier book The Visual Neurosciences (MIT Press, 2003). ..."
"From the publisher: "Through the 1990s, Landy's work has explored different aspects of contemporary consumerism. Over three years in the making, BREAK DOWN is [his] most ambitious - and most extreme - project to date. Michael Landy has made an inventory of his life -- of every single thing he owns. Every piece of furniture, every record, every article of clothing, every book, every gadget, every work of art...over 5000 individual items ..."