Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation - Hardcover

WEARING, Gillian, Dominic Molon, And Barry Schwabsky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858941784 ISBN 13: 9781858941783

Publisher: Merrell Pub Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

Gillian Wearing has emerged as one of the foremost British artists of her generation, creating video installations and photographic works that document the shocking, amusing, and tragic stories and behavior of the ordinary people of Britain. Winner of the prestigious Turner Prize in 1997, Wearing has exhibited extensively around the world.
This full-color monograph, covering the period 1992 to 2002, represents the most eagerly anticipated, up-to-date, and incisive survey yet published of Wearing's painfully affecting art: art that holds an exacting and often unbearable mirror to the absurdity, ennui, and anxiety of everyday life, demonstrating the maddening impossibility of ever truly understanding the complexity of the human psyche.

About this title

About the Author:

Dominic Molon is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Barry Schwabsky is the author of The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum.

About this edition

• Publisher: Merrell Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1858941784
• ISBN 13: 9781858941783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120