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Candice Breitz
Marcella Beccaria
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Description for Candice Breitz
Paperback. The art South African artist Candice Breitz draws on contemporary mass culture, devising new systems for understanding reality. This book documents Breitz's work "Mother + Father". She employs darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions as presented and accepted in the media and popular culture. Num Pages: 96 pages, 60 illustrations, 50 in colour. BIC Classification: AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 300 x 9. Weight in Grams: 790.
The art of the up-and-coming South African artist Candice Breitz draws on contemporary mass culture, devising new systems for understanding reality. Published in association with the Castello di Rivoli, this book documents Breitz's new work Mother + Father . Exploding the terrain of representation, Candice Breitz employs a variety of darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions as presented and accepted in the media and popular culture. Breitz appropriates photographs and visual fragments and recontextualises these in bold, sometimes tasteless-seeming images, which radically challenge conventional wisdom and question currently accepted assumptions. Considering ... Read more
The art of the up-and-coming South African artist Candice Breitz draws on contemporary mass culture, devising new systems for understanding reality. Published in association with the Castello di Rivoli, this book documents Breitz's new work Mother + Father . Exploding the terrain of representation, Candice Breitz employs a variety of darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions as presented and accepted in the media and popular culture. Breitz appropriates photographs and visual fragments and recontextualises these in bold, sometimes tasteless-seeming images, which radically challenge conventional wisdom and question currently accepted assumptions. Considering ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Skira Italy
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Milan, Italy
ISBN
9788876243684
SKU
V9788876243684
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About Marcella Beccaria
Marcella Beccaria is curator at the Museum Museum of Contemporary Art Castello di Rivoli, Turin. Her books include Vanessa Beecroft Performances 1993-2003 (Skira 2003) and Thomas Demand (Skira 2003).
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