"British artist Tacita Dean (born 1964) first came to the attention of the art world with her surrealistic 16-mm film “The Story of Beard” (1992), making a name for herself as part of the Young British Artists generation―even if Dean’s slow, subtle films would seem to have little in common with the raucous works of her peers. Dean was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1998 and has since been a vocal advocate for the medium of film.In 201 ..."
Place(1st Edition) (Art Works) by TacitaDean, Jeremy Millar Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2005 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-93007-6, ISBN: 0-500-93007-4
"A unique exhibition in a book, presenting challenging art that addresses the function of place in the contemporary world. Art Works: An exciting new series celebrating the vitality and diversity of art in the twenty-first century. Everyone wants to find his or her own place in the world. But where is it and what is it? How do we recognize place as being significant and not just merely space? And what is it that makes one place special ..."
"Mehretu's first major solo exhibition in London featured new and recent paintings, some of which will be presented within a specially constructed environment designed by David Adjaye in close collaboration with the artist."
"Over 40 years ago, Andy Warhol promoted the concept that artists are celebrities, just as worthy of portrayal as other cultural icons. Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists begins where Warhol left off. Presenting visually striking and conceptually diverse works in a range of mediums, Likeness is the first exhibition and catalogue to propose a recent history of artists’ representations of other artists--of friends, peers, and ..."
"Janine Antoni photographs a pair of hands joined in a Möbius strip of long, polished fingernails; John Baldessari commingles images of politics and handguns and primary-colored spheres; John Coplans offers his feet as self-portrait; Gregory Crewdson tells the cinematic, mysterious tale of a random street in some suburbia somewhere; Thomas Demand constructs the illusion of a soundproof room; Rineke Dijkstra portrays herself as a bather a ..."
"Tacita Dean: Writing and Filmography, published as a companion to Tacita Dean: Landscape, Portrait, Still Life, collects the artist’s writings and pairs them with a complete filmography. Dean’s writings reveal her to be as sensitive a thinker as she is an image maker, and her filmography shows the depth and breadth of the artist’s interests. Beautifully illustrated throughout with film stills, archival photographs and related artworks, ..."
"Catalogue designed by David Hockney, assisted by Jonathan Wilkinson Introduction by Peter Goulds Foreword by Tacita Dean 68 pages, 40 color illustrations Hardcover"
Buon Fresco by TacitaDean Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2016 by Mack ISBN-13: 978-1-910164-28-0, ISBN: 1-910164-28-3
"116 fotografie a colori a piena pagina di Tacita Dean . 8vo (cm 28x38,5) pp. 112 Brossura (wrappers) Nuovo (New) San Francesco d'Assisi è stato il santo che ha umanizzato la santità. Era un uomo con un corpo ordinario e desideri comuni. Come scrive Tacita Dean "Si rotolò nudo nella neve per sedare i suoi impulsi e calpestò il terreno di sentieri e strade che ancora oggi si snodano attraverso le colline e le foreste dell'Umbria..Le sue p ..."
"Description: Image Stream brings together eight gallery-based film and video works, each of which explore the limits of this new medium, returning to narrative and changing conventional modes of viewing. Curator Helen Molesworth in this her first exhibition for the Wexner Art Center has selected works by Kutlug Ataman, Matthew Barney, Tacita Dean, Andrea Fraser, Pierre Huyghe, Neil Jordan, Donald Moffett, and Lorna Simpson, each of whic ..."
"A gorgeous gift for every cinephile, The Art of Film Projection celebrates this enduring analog artThe Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide is a beautifully produced, comprehensive outline of the materials, equipment and knowledge needed to present the magic of cinema to an enthralled audience. Part manual and part manifesto, The Art of Film Projection compiles more than 50 years of expertise from the staff of the world-renowned G ..."
"Tacita Dean (b. 1965) is an artist internationally known for her compelling work in film. She seeks connections--between history and the present, fact and fiction. Her starting point is typically a chance encounter or discovery. She pursues her investigation like a detective, piecing together evidence and presenting it in a loosely woven, often inconclusive narrative. This book includes an introduction to the artist and her work by Cla ..."
"Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea emerged from, and was inspired by, an exhibition held across Southampton's John Hansard Gallery and SeaCity Museum in 2014.Based around interviews conducted by Jean Wainwright with sixteen ..."
"The exhibition Germaine Richier presents more than forty important sculptures from the seminal postwar French artist Germaine Richier. Richier's sculptures are presented alongside a selection of photographs by her contemporary Brassaï, who documented the artist's studio and captured the defying power of her work. This fully illustrated exhibition catalogue is one of the first scholarly studies of the artist's work ever published in the ..."
"Over the last twenty years an increasing number of artists have turned to expressing themselves through postcards. Whether by way of installation, collage, addition to, or alteration of existing postcards, or the production of postcards themselves, many prominent artists employ the medium in some form. `Artists' Postcards` traces the origin of artists' fascination with postcards from the early 1900s but with a focus on the contemporary, ..."
"Publisher's Description The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco entrusts German artist Thomas Demand with a role of guest curator for the opening exhibition of Villa Paloma. The concept of the exhibition refers to Magritte's short-lived magazine, 'La Carte d'après Nature'. From 1952 on, and for only fourteen issues, he encompasses poetry, illustrations, short stories and other contributions, and sends them out as postcards. In a similar wa ..."
Teignmouth Electron by TacitaDean Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2009 by Book Works ISBN-13: 978-1-906012-13-7, ISBN: 1-906012-13-X
"Situation -- a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations -- has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current context of globalization. This anthology offers key ..."
"Cy Twombly (b.1928) is one of the leading figures from the generation of American artists that also included Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. Unlike them, he left America early in his career to live and work in Italy where he drew inspiration from European literature and classical culture. He swiftly built an international reputation with his uniquely expressive abstract paintings and works on paper.Accompanying a major, touring retrospect ..."