Andrea Zittel Critical Space
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (504 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3791333976 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 245 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Paola Morsiani is Curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. . Trevor Smith is Curator of The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
In her work as an artist, Zittel investigates domestic and urban life in Western societies. It focuses on the experimental nature of her signature objects, inhabitable sculptures and other projects. Exploring the various aspects of living, the artist designs her own household settings to serve as a test case for her experimental living structures. Richly illustrated, "Andrea Zittel: Critical Space" includes nearly two hundred reproductions of Zittel's works of art, many of which are published here for the first time. The book includes over one hundred sculptures and drawings, documentation of early work and recent site-specific work in the Mojave Desert of California. This catalogue of a travelling American exhibition is the first comprehensive publication on the influential contemporary artist Andrea Zittel. Her work has provoked debates about the changed meaning of domestic and collective space and the possibilities for new adaptations to urban conditions today. With essays that touch on urbanism, architecture, design and consu
About the Author Paola Morsiani is Curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Trevor Smith is Curator of The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
Great retrospective on youngish artist This is a high quality print art book, is well edited, with the artist's career and thoughts organized into chapters, somewhat chronologically. Zittel is only in her late 30s and is super prolific so this book is really like an early mid life summary and not a true retrospective.Zittel's lists of ideas are handy. When I am feeling down about the messiness, the lack of space, urban decay, and my relative poverty, I just need to look at one of her lists to get cheered up (e.g., matte surfaces hide dirt, how much space does one need, anyway?) She has such a sense of humor about stuff that most people get too serious about (to. "This thing i know for sure" according to Jan Lelie. Andrea Zittel is a remarkable artist and this book is proof of it. It looks effortless, the way she explores her world and turns reality into art and art into reality. Her art combines the abstract with the concrete, the uniform with unique, the wise with the simple truth. It is not critical space, it is critical living (where a living is a space too).. Five Stars I love Andrea Zittel's work.