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{"authorDescription":"Survey by Jean-Christophe Royoux, Interview by Marina Warner, Focus by Germaine Greer, Artist's Choice by W B Yeats and W G Sebald, Writings by Tacita Dean","bookshot2d":null,"bookshot3d":null,"bookshot3dSquare":null,"categories":[],"date":"","editionId":11779,"guid":"7b41c86b-e8c6-46aa-969d-f780f0cb210c","images":[],"markets":{"AUD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"59.95","show":false},"CAD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"49.95","show":false},"EUR":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"39.95","show":false},"GBP":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"29.95","show":false},"TEST":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"0.00","show":false},"USD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"49.95","show":false}},"related":[],"sku":"9780714844282","source":"BOOKs","specifications":{"binding":"Paperback","colIlls":"100","extent":"160","language":"English","lenInch":"11 3/8","lenMm":"290","weightKilo":"1.01","widthInch":"9 7/8","widthMm":"250"},"status":false,"subtitle":" ","title":"Tacita Dean","uri":"","webAuthorDescription":"\u003cp\u003eJean-Christophe Royoux is a Paris-based critic and art historian whose writing centres on artists who work with the moving image. The founder of the artistic production agency Histoires Parallèles, he is well known for his theoretical texts exploring the work of Marcel Broodthaers, James Coleman, Stan Douglas and Pierre Huyghe. Exhibitions Royoux has curated include ‘Off-Screen ou les miroirs du sujet’ and ‘Radio Dramas: In the Labyrinth of Visual Voices’.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMarina Warner writes fiction, criticism, and cultural history. She has contributed to numerous catalogues and curated several exhibitions, including ‘Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing’ at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, UK (2005). Her most recent book is \u003cem\u003eFiguring the Soul: Spirits in the Media Age\u003c/em\u003e. She is Professor of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Essex.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermaine Greer is a noted intellectual, feminist and public speaker. Raised in Australia and educated in England, Greer has written books on literature, art and society, most famously \u003cem\u003eThe Female Eunuch \u003c/em\u003e(1970).\u003c/p\u003e","webDescription":"","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"\u003cp\u003eWith films, drawings, photographs, audio recordings and installations, Berlin-based English artist Tacita Dean explores the ways that chance and coincidence influence daily life, constructing narratives that connect past and present, fact and fiction, private histories and larger events. Across one archipelago of works – \u003cem\u003eDisappearance at Sea\u003c/em\u003e (1996), \u003cem\u003eDisappearance at Sea II\u003c/em\u003e (1996) and \u003cem\u003eTeignmouth Electron \u003c/em\u003e(1999) – Dean documents the tragic account of Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to fake a solo voyage around the globe, which culminated in his eventual loss of sanity and his death at sea. The works tell the story through various fragments and landscapes, including a magnificent sea vista from a lighthouse beacon that produce what the artist refers to as a ‘missing narrative’ reminiscent of an atmospheric nineteenth-century seascape painting. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDean's compulsion to archive forgotten fragments of history is perhaps best captured in \u003cem\u003eFLOH \u003c/em\u003e(2002), a collection of photographs she discovered in flea markets across Europe and America – holiday snaps or banal occurrences retrieved and preserved for the future. Other works include a \u003cem\u003eJukebox \u003c/em\u003e(2000) filled with ambient sound recorded around the world on the eve of the new millennium; views of a changing Berlin filmed from the revolving Fernsehturm television tower (\u003cem\u003eFernsehturm\u003c/em\u003e, 2001); and the sounds of a frustrated attempt to follow directions (as misleading as they are meticulous) to find Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah's Great Salt Lake (\u003cem\u003eTrying to Find the Spiral Jetty\u003c/em\u003e, 1997). Dean’s work has been presented at museums and galleries throughout the world (including Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; and ARC / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) as well as in major international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (2003 and 2005). Her films have also been screened at the Venice and Rotterdam international film festivals. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt and cinema theorist Jean-Christophe Royoux uses his Survey to dissect the multiple layers of time – durational and historical – at play in Tacita Dean’s work. In the Interview, writer and art historian Marina Warner talks to the artist about the remarkable origins of several of her works, highlighting their charmed relationship to chance. Literature and culture critic Germaine Greer uses the Focus to examine the man and the building at the heart of the three-part film installation \u003cem\u003eBoots \u003c/em\u003e(2003). For Artist’s Choice, Dean has selected a 1939 poem by W. B. Yeats and a passage from a 1995 novel by W. G. Sebald that both capture the elegiac spirit of the her own work. Artist’s Writings range from a reflection on the distant South Atlantic island Tristan da Cunha to a very personal obituary Dean wrote about the Italian artist Mario Merz. Also included are project notes on a half dozen of the artist’s key works.\u003c/p\u003e","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003eOn the \u003cem\u003eContemporary Artists Series\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The boldest, best executed, and most far-reaching publishing project devoted to contemporary art. These books will revolutionize the way contemporary art is presented and written about.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eArtforum\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The combination of intelligent analysis, personal insight, useful facts and plentiful pictures is a superb format invaluable for specialists but also interesting for casual readers, it makes these books a must for the library of anyone who cares about contemporary art.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eTime Out\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;A unique series of informative monographs on individual artists.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Gives the reader the impression of a personal encounter with the artists. Apart from the writing which is lucid and illuminating, it is undoubtedly the wealth of lavish illustrations which makes looking at these books a satisfying entertainment.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Art Book\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","webShortDescription":"A guidebook to this multi-faceted artist and her allusive work."}