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Item Details
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ON KAWARA
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| By: |
Rene Denizot, Stuart Hameroff, On Kawara |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£27.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0714841048 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780714841045 |
| Publisher: |
PHAIDON PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
18 October, 2002 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
A meditation on one of the world's best-known Conceptual artists. |
| Synopsis: |
Japanese-born, New-York-based On Kawara (b.1933) is one of the world's best-known Conceptual artists, a major international figure since the 1960s. Kawara's existence is documented solely through his daily art-making practice. Best known are his Date Paintings (1965-ongoing), in which he methodically creates a single painting a day, with simply the date written on it. This book is a rare chance for his followers to unravel more of the mystery of this cult figure, and for less familiar readers to be introduced to his fascinating life and work. A unique feature of this book is the Tribute section, which reflects the artist's lifelong commitment never to be personally documented in his own words. A collection of short statements by 30 individuals selected personally by Kawara - among them artists Lawrence Weiner and Dan Graham, and cultural theorist Homi Bhabha - create an indirect 'portrait of the artist'. In the Survey, Curator Jonathan examines the artist's long-standing career: from his early figurative painting in the 1950s, to his later, text-based Conceptual art. Curator Rene Denizot analyses in his Focus a two-person exhibition combining Kawara's work with Alberto Giacometti's, revealing both artists' shared concern for the essence of human existence. The artist's interest in the nature of consciousness is reflected in a scientific essay he has selected for his Artist's Choice from the academic Journal of Consciousness Studies. In the Artist's Writings, a series of handwritten love letters in an indecipherable code reflect the mix of the impersonal and the deeply humanistic threads that run through Kawara's art. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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