Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects
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Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects by Hans Ulrich Obrist
The author has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. In this book, he chooses nineteen of the greatest figures and presents their conversations, offering the reader intimacy with the artists and insight into their creative processes.
Engrossing.. provides a strong flavour of these artists and their unpredictable, exploratory thought processes -- Mark Hudson Daily Telegraph Where Obrist goes, the rest follow GQ The interviews Mr. Obrist has conducted over the years currently add up to some 2,000 hours' worth of tape ... Through these interviews, Mr. Obrist has established himself as the unofficial secretary of the contemporary art world. 'The way we might read Vasari for primary information on the Italian Renaissance,' said [Jeffrey] Deitch, 'people will be looking at the archive of Hans Ulrich's interviews to construct the art history of this era.' New York Observer Officially the most powerful man in art Daily Telegraph
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and writer. Since 2006 he has been co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. He is the author of Ways of Curating and, with Ai Weiwei, of Ai Weiwei Speaks.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846148279 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846148278 |
| Title | Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects |
| Author | Hans Ulrich Obrist |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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