William Kentridge

Ivan Vladislavic

Okwui Enwezor

Gabriele Guercio

South African artist William Kentridge has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediums all of which trace the fraught political and cultural history of South Africa. This title explores Kentridge's new series of 17 large-scale tapestries, created under his artistic direction by a team of South African weavers.

Tapestries

Joseph Kosuth

John C. Welchman

Fiona Biggiero

Joseph Kosuth: Re-defining the Context of Art is a theoretical reading of Kosuth’s media-related practice and includes essays by Gabriele Guercio, John C Welchman and Joseph Kosuth himself. The book is richly illustrated with documentation of three groupings of works: The Second Investigation, 1968; Redefining the Context of Art at MIT List Visual Arts Center, 1997; and his retrospective at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven in 2004. These exhibitions all addressed the ‘context’ of art by reframing Kosuth’s public media works, such as on billboards or the television, within the gallery and also by employing media tactics, such as his public questionnaires, within an art setting.

Re-defining the Context of Art: 1968 - 2014. the Second Investigation and Public Media

The first comprehensive survey of Joseph Kosuth's work, centering on The Second Investigation (1968–74) This first comprehensive survey of Joseph Kosuth's work with public media centers on his pioneering project The Second Investigation (1968–74). This indexical work takes the form of anonymous advertisements in media—newspapers, magazines, billboards, television—based on a taxonomy of the world developed in the early nineteenth century by Roget for use in his thesaurus. Marking the start of Kosuth's sustained engagement with public media, this work anticipated the media orientation of New York postmodernism beginning in the late 1970s. Featuring a significant reexamination of Kosuth's work with language and media by art historian John C. Welchman, an appendix by art historian Gabriele Guercio, as well as the artist's own reflections on art and media, the book is richly illustrated with unpublished material from the artist's archive along with documentation of the artist's eponymous 1997 exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and his 2004 retrospective at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Gabriele Guercio

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