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Tacita Dean /

By: Contributor(s): Series: Contemporary artistsPublication details: London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2006.Description: 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780714844282
  • 0714844284
Subject(s): Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Interview: Marina Warner in conversation with Tacita Dean -- Survey: Cosmograms of the present tense / Jean-Christophe Royoux -- Focus: Boots / Germaine Greer -- Artist's Choice: The long-legged fly, 1939 / Willian Butler Yeats; The rings of Saturn (extract), 1993 / W.G. Sebald -- Artist's Writings: A bag of air, 1995; Delft hydraulics, 1996; The structure of ice, 1997; Teignmouth electron (extracts), 1999; Banewl, 1999 ; Mario Merz (obituary), 2003; Palast, 2004; Presentation Sister, 2005; Tristan da Cunha, 2005 -- Chronology.
Summary: "With films, drawings, photographs, audio recordings and installations, Berlin-based English artist Tacita Dean explores the ways that chance and coincidence influence daily life, constructing narratives that connect past and present, fact and fiction, private histories and larger events. Across one archipelago of works - Disappearance at Sea (1996), Disappearance at Sea II (1996) and Teignmouth Electron (1999) - Dean documents the tragic account of Donald Crowhurst and his attempts to fake a solo voyage around the globe, which culminated in his eventual loss of sanity and his death at sea. The works tell the story through various fragments and landscapes, including a magnificent sea vista from a lighthouse beacon that produce what the artist refers to as a 'missing narrative' reminiscent of an atmospheric nineteenth-century seascape painting." "Art and cinema theorist Jean-Christophe Royoux uses his Survey to dissect the multiple layers of time - durational and historical - at play in Tacita Dean's work. In the Interview, writer and art historian Marina Warner talks to the artist about the remarkable origins of several of her works, highlighting their charmed relationship to chance. Literature and culture critic Germaine Greer uses the Focus to examine the man and the building at the heart of the three-part film installation Boots (2003). For Artist's Choice, Dean has selected a 1939 poem by W. B. Yeats and a passage from a 1995 novel by W. G. Sebald that both capture the elegiac spirit of her own work. Artist's Writings range from a reflection on the distant South Atlantic Island Tristan da Cunha to a very personal obituary Dean wrote about the Italian artist Mario Merz. Also included are project notes on a half dozen of the artist's key works."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Interview: Marina Warner in conversation with Tacita Dean -- Survey: Cosmograms of the present tense / Jean-Christophe Royoux -- Focus: Boots / Germaine Greer -- Artist's Choice: The long-legged fly, 1939 / Willian Butler Yeats; The rings of Saturn (extract), 1993 / W.G. Sebald -- Artist's Writings: A bag of air, 1995; Delft hydraulics, 1996; The structure of ice, 1997; Teignmouth electron (extracts), 1999; Banewl, 1999 ; Mario Merz (obituary), 2003; Palast, 2004; Presentation Sister, 2005; Tristan da Cunha, 2005 -- Chronology.

"With films, drawings, photographs, audio recordings and installations, Berlin-based English artist Tacita Dean explores the ways that chance and coincidence influence daily life, constructing narratives that connect past and present, fact and fiction, private histories and larger events. Across one archipelago of works - Disappearance at Sea (1996), Disappearance at Sea II (1996) and Teignmouth Electron (1999) - Dean documents the tragic account of Donald Crowhurst and his attempts to fake a solo voyage around the globe, which culminated in his eventual loss of sanity and his death at sea. The works tell the story through various fragments and landscapes, including a magnificent sea vista from a lighthouse beacon that produce what the artist refers to as a 'missing narrative' reminiscent of an atmospheric nineteenth-century seascape painting." "Art and cinema theorist Jean-Christophe Royoux uses his Survey to dissect the multiple layers of time - durational and historical - at play in Tacita Dean's work. In the Interview, writer and art historian Marina Warner talks to the artist about the remarkable origins of several of her works, highlighting their charmed relationship to chance. Literature and culture critic Germaine Greer uses the Focus to examine the man and the building at the heart of the three-part film installation Boots (2003). For Artist's Choice, Dean has selected a 1939 poem by W. B. Yeats and a passage from a 1995 novel by W. G. Sebald that both capture the elegiac spirit of her own work. Artist's Writings range from a reflection on the distant South Atlantic Island Tristan da Cunha to a very personal obituary Dean wrote about the Italian artist Mario Merz. Also included are project notes on a half dozen of the artist's key works."--BOOK JACKET.

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