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{"authorDescription":"William Furlong, with an introduction by Mel Gooding","bookshot2d":null,"bookshot3d":null,"bookshot3dSquare":null,"categories":["store/art/","store/art/themes-a-z-by-title/"],"date":"2010-03-09 00:00:00","editionId":12126,"guid":"7D3B562F-D14A-4498-9787-8DD8F9765191","images":[],"markets":{"AUD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"deny","price":"49.95","show":true},"CAD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"deny","price":"39.95","show":true},"EUR":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"deny","price":"35.00","show":true},"GBP":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"deny","price":"24.95","show":true},"TEST":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"39.95","show":true},"USD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"deny","price":"39.95","show":true}},"preorder":false,"related":["9780714865911","9780714828404","9780714832470"],"sku":"9780714845067","source":"BOOKs","specifications":{"binding":"Hardback","colIlls":"40","extent":"272","language":"English","lenInch":"9 5/8","lenMm":"245","weightKilo":"1.0","widthInch":"6 3/4","widthMm":"172"},"status":true,"subtitle":"Four Decades of Art in Conversation","title":"Speaking of Art","uri":"store/art/speaking-of-art-9780714845067/","webAuthorDescription":"William Furlong is the founder of \u003ci\u003eAudio Arts\u003c/i\u003e, a unique audiocassette magazine distributed and heard internationally. For over thirty years he has recorded interviews with leading international artists at the most significant art events in Britain, Europe and the United States. A practising artist, Furlong is also Visiting Professor at Wimbledon College of Art in London.","webDescription":"Speaking of Art by William Furlong. Outstanding interviews with 43 towering figures of recent art history. Order online from the Phaidon Store.","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpeaking of Art\u003c/em\u003e presents 43 artists, composers and curators who have changed the course of recent art history. Collected from the archives of\u003ci\u003e Audio Arts\u003c/i\u003e, a one-of-a-kind audiocassette magazine begun in 1973, \u003ci\u003eSpeaking of Art \u003c/i\u003eprovides invaluable insight into the most creative minds of modern and contemporary art, from Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and Joseph Beuys to Jeff Wall, Damien Hirst and Tacita Dean. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterviews include Marcel Duchamp, Michael Craig-Martin, Dennis Oppenheim, Tadeusz Kantor, Philip Glass, Richard Hamilton, John Cage, Howard Hodgkin, Richard Long, Frank Stella, Joseph Beuys, Donald Judd, Mona Hatoum, Roy Lichtenstein, Ilya Kabakov, Jeff Koons, Anish Kapoor, Nancy Spero \u0026amp; Leon Golub, Rachel Whiteread, Mike Kelley, Richard Serra, Joseph Kosuth, Marina Abramovic, Bill Viola, Carl Andre, John McCracken, Sarah Lucas, Jake \u0026amp; Dinos Chapman, Tacita Dean, Chuck Close, Ed Ruscha, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Wolfgang Tillmans, Damien Hirst, Jeff Wall, Gilbert \u0026amp; George, Thomas Demand, Hans Ulrich Obrist, James Rosenquist, John Baldessari, Shirin Neshat and William Kentridge.\u003c/p\u003e","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The epic career of William Furlong is summed up in this not-to-be-missed book, a vast, brilliant anthology of transcripts from some of his most important recorded interviews with artists over the last forty years.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eMousse\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;There is no better way to help inform your appreciation and understanding of an artist's work and philosophy than to hear what they themselves think about what they do. This excellent book focuses on that very point: it brings together in print some 43 artist interviews taken from one of the most impressive sound archives in the world, Audio Arts.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Artist\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;We should probably see Furlong as a peculiarly English autodidact figure scrupulously orchestrating a record of the international art world over the last 40 years... We begin with a bang, with Marcel Duchamp [...] his spiky presence as a provocateur and dandy exactly preserved... Some of the earliest interviewees, such as John Cage, Tadeusz Kantor and Philip Glass, suggest a programme accommodating figures on the margins of a traditional definition of a visual arts discourse. This inclusiveness is a trace of the early Conceptual Art mindset out of which Furlong's project originally emerged... These are, however, evocative historical documents in more ways than simply as records of artists' speech and thought. The 1980s interviews are a window into an era... One of the advantages of reading interviews sequentially is that the particularities of language employed by the artists are highlighted by difference... When [Joseph] Beuys's English slips a little [...], the loss of the original sound is irrelevant as his unmistakeably hypnotic Germanic tones rise through the transcripts. The editing is sensitive enough to establish thematic threads; for example, in the sequential cluster of Wolgang Tillmans, Gilbert \u0026amp; George, Jeff Wall and Thomas Demand, effectively blocking in a workable set of parameters for contemporary art photography.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eArt Monthly\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Phaidon Press has now published \u003cem\u003eSpeaking of Art\u003c/em\u003e, a small sampling of the immense undertaking that resulted from that dissatisfaction. Beginning in 1973, with the help of a few collaborators, Mr. Furlong created Audio Arts, a no-budget 'magazine' composed solely of cassette recordings of interviews with artists Mr. Furlong found interesting. He mailed them to friends and subscribers, at first hundreds and then thousands. [...] \u003cem\u003eSpeaking of Art\u003c/em\u003e is made to resemble a cassette, with an \u0026quot;A\u0026quot; side and a flip-over \u0026quot;B\u0026quot; side and shiny dark-brown endpapers to evoke magnetic tape. It presents edited transcripts of 43 artists from the archive. [...] The excerpts from their conversations skew more toward the academic (Mr. Furlong has been an art professor most of his life) than toward the breezy tone of Paris Review interviews. But they never veer far from Mr. Furlong's guiding principle that he is talking with artists, not interviewing them.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","webShortDescription":"Outstanding interviews with 43 towering figures of recent art history."}