Hardcover cloth (photographic) over boards. 4to. 317 pp. Copiously illustrated with b/w and full colour plates, including full-page plates and two-page spreads. Title blind stamped on front cover.� Library stamps from Savannah College of Art and Design on all edges and title page. Library reference number inscribed on top right corner of title page. Card catalogue pocket glued on to back pastedown. Two bumps on the head and one to bottom corner. Sticker residue on front cover and spine. Text block is clean and bright. Binding is strong and square.�.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Elmgreen & Dragset: This is the First Day of My Life

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Printed in Germany

Publication Date

2008

Language

English

ISBN 10

3775720502

ISBN 13

9783775720502

Binding

Cloth

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Good.

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Art Monographs

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"Some people find a certain cruelty in parts of our work," say the rising conceptualist-collaborators Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, "but they are definitely not more vicious than any real life experiences." Since 1995, Elmgreen and Dragset have tackled issues of privatization, gentrification, social alienation and the dismantling of social welfare. For their first show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in 2001 they papered over the windows with the announcement "Opening Soon Prada." Pursuing and inverting this theme, in 2005 they installed a mocked-up Prada store on a deserted road near Marfa, Texas. They have recreated hospitals and prison cells, and have reconfigured gallery spaces to spatially deter their would-be audience. "Our aim is to investigate some of the power structures that these spaces derive from, and by exchanging and replacing some of these structures, show how fragile they actually are." This monograph is the first extensive survey of their work to date.

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