"Mark Francis is one of the young British artists who came to prominence in the early 1990s; his work is held in many public and private collections including the Tate Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Saatchi Collection. This book will accompany his exhibition at the Milton Keynes Gallery."
"As the first significant overview of the work by artist Olivia Plender, this monograph navigates through the evolving attitudes to historical and contemporary forms of communication and education that her research-based practice has explored for the last ten years. From the reappraisal of Plender's project Google Office (2010), in which artistic agency meets Liberation Management, to rethinking of the Open University as a model where th ..."
"The Lie of the Land explores the role of culture in this process.The Lie of the Land features the almost 100 influential cultural figures including - architects such as Norman Foster, Buckminster Fuller, Alison and Peter Smithson; and many ..."
"Since his earliest exhibitions in the late 1970s, the British artist Andrew Lord has experimented with clay, plaster, beeswax, bronze, drawing, printmaking and video. This book provides an overview of his career, charting the development of his practice."
"Oktober 2006] Wolfgang Weileder Emma Dean, Michael Stanley. 'of how to insert
high property values and sumptuary spaces into decaying neighborhoods', and '
Gehry's strongest suit may simply be his straightforward exploitation of rough
urban environments, and his blatant incorporation of their harshest edges and
detritus as powerful representational elements in his work'.10 Just like the
electronic functions, the urban potential of d ..."
"This volume documents British artist Roger Hiorns' (born 1975) largest show to date, at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt and Galerie Rudolfinum. Hiorns' installations and sculptures generate and fill gaps between disparate ideas: between construction and destruction, theology and technology, temporariness and performance, authoritarian control and spontaneity."
"This work contains text by Gill Perry. Over the last five years, the German artist Anja Schrey has primarily focused on larger-than-life self-portraits made in coloured pencil. Working with meticulous precision, Schrey produces compelling figures which, set against white backgrounds, come across as alien in their separateness. The artists deliberately conceals her individuality behind an array of poses: her gestures revealing the gender ..."
"- Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at Milton Keynes Gallery (12 July - 1 September 2002) touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester (21 September - 3 November 2002), Angel Row, Nottingham (11 January - 1 March 2003), Tullie House, Carlisle (22 March - 18 May 2003). Air Guitar explores the relationship between art and rock music from the perspective of the artist as rock music fan. Since the 1970s, rock music has provid ..."
"Tomorrows World, Yesterdays Fever (Mental Guests Incorporated). Abigail Lane
Milton Keynes Gallery. Thanks to: Stephen Snoddy, Natasha Messenger,
Katherine Sorensen, Emma Gregory, Kirsten Gibbs, Victoria Mayes and Anna
Gawronska at Milton Keynes Gallery.; Also special thanks to gallery assistants
Kelly Blyth, Anthony Carr, Justin Neal and Emma Wilde. Milton Keynes Gallery
900 Midsummer Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3QA, Eng ..."
"Bringing together for the first time in English a selection of texts about German artist Peter Drehers body of work, this publication focuses primarily on his remarkable series of over 5000 paintings of the same, empty drinking glass, produced since 1974. The texts, presented along with full colour plates, identify a broad variety of approaches to Drehers work, including realist, formalist, conceptual, philosophical and spiritual interp ..."
"James Lee Byars--who was born in Detroit in 1932 and died in Cairo in 1997--was one of the twentieth-century art world's most unusual and elusive figures. Enamored with the imaginary and fleeting, pitting the immaterial against the material, Byars was not just an artist, he was a visionary and a dandy, who, always seeking perfection, knew how to cast a spell over his audience through his enigmatic performances, installations and sculptu ..."
"Quiet Revolution, the inaugural Curatorial Open exhibition organized by Hayward Touring, presents lo-tech sculptural works that question the way in which we interact with our surroundings. Seven international contemporary artists - David Beattie, Margret H. Blondall, Matt Calderwood, Alice Channer, Hreinn Friofinnsson, Mitzi Pederson and Joelle Tuerlinckx - create poetic spatial interventions made from the unnoticed materials found all ..."
"Marcel Broodthaers filled his brief, 12-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most artists manage in a lifetime. This career began in 1964, following a period of more than two decades laboring in some obscurity as a poet in the Belgian Surrealist circle of René Magritte (a crucial mentor for Broodthaers) and Paul Nougé. He also wrote articles on art during these years, including early critiques of Pop art. Broodthaers' fir ..."
"This title includes text by Sally O'Reilly. This publication marks the most comprehensive exhibition by David Austen for over ten years. It brings together a significant body of work including the distinctive paintings and works on paper for which he has become widely known, a recently made film and hanging sculptures, both of which signal a new and important departure. For the artist, much of his source material is derived from observa ..."