Artists & Prints
Title | Artists & Prints PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Wye |
Publisher | The Museum of Modern Art |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780870701252 |
Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.
The Complete Medicine Cabinets
Title | The Complete Medicine Cabinets PDF eBook |
Author | Damien Hirst |
Publisher | Other Criteria |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-08-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781906967376 |
Published on the occasion of Damien Hirst’s exhibition at L&M Arts, New York, in October 2010, this first--and complete--book on the artist's medicine cabinets is contextualized by the artist’s following of the punk movement. The first twelve sculptures in the book are named after the title tracks on the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks album. The front-page newspaper spreads punctuating the book from the album’s release year (1977) and the year of the cabinets’ completion (1989) provide a context for reading James Frey’s story-poem, Fuck This and Fuck That, which describes the listless protest of a teenage waster. The song titles and cabinet names - No Feelings, Liar, and Seventeen - resound with the frustrations of Thatcherite Britain and the violence borne out in daily uprest and anarchy, as depicted in the news: IRA MEN HELD IN BIG SWOOP; RIOT SHIELDS OUT AGAIN and DOCKS JOBS-FOR-LIFE TO BE AXED BY AUTUMN. Hirst’s medicine cabinets have long been described as temples of medicinal hierarchies providing nothing more than a short-term cure in the face of death. Viewing the pervasive successes and exploitations of the pharmaceutical industry as a belief system in itself is evidence of our society's dependency and a form of escapism. Hirst has commented: "I’ve always seen medicine cabinets as bodies, but also like a cityscape or civilization, with some sort of hierarchy within it. It’s also like a contemporary museum of the Middle Ages. In a hundred years’ time this will look like an old apothecary. A museum of something that’s around today." The publication features a transcription of a radio conversation between Damien Hirst and Steve Jones, guitarist for the Sex Pistols, covering music, girls, money, drugs, drinks, and smokes. The book’s index lists every medicine cabinet ever made and the exhibition itself includes original Sex Pistols memorabilia including album sleeves and t-shirts. This is the signed and lmiited edition of this book.
Damien Hirst
Title | Damien Hirst PDF eBook |
Author | Damien Hirst |
Publisher | Tate Publishing(UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art and Design / eflch |
ISBN | 9781849760140 |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Damien Hirst, Tate Modern, 4 April - 9 September 2012.
Damien Hirst Colouring Book
Title | Damien Hirst Colouring Book PDF eBook |
Author | Damien Hirst |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2016-10-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781906967772 |
Damien Hirst: Colouring Book features the British artist's most iconic works rendered as simple line drawings. Coloring fans of all ages can immerse themselves in themes and motifs found within some of the artist's most enduring series, including anatomical models, butterflies, medicine cabinets, spin paintings, color charts and kaleidoscope paintings. Featuring Hirst's most popular images, including "The Incomplete Truth," "Myth," "Loving in a World of Desire," "Hymn," "For the Love of God," "Benevolence" and more, the volume brings some of the most controversial and groundbreaking work of contemporary art to a witty coloring-book format.
Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms
Title | Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2021-04-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9782869251595 |
Incandescent and celebratory paintings of cherry blossoms from Damien Hirst, in a glorious oversize volume With 107 new works, Cherry Blossoms marks a new chapter in Damien Hirst's career-long exploration of the physical relationship between artist and canvas that began with his Spot Paintings in 1986. Hirst describes his cherry blossoms as garish and messy and fragile"; the series signals a shift in Hirst's career away from minimalism and "the imagined mechanical painter" toward a painting that delights in the potential haphazardness of the medium, as well as the artist's own fallibility as a creator. Rich in color and striking in number, Hirst's Cherry Blossoms are both an appropriation and a tribute to the pictorial art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Damien Hirst (born 1965) rose to prominence in the 1990s as one of the Young British Artists, garnering attention for his controversial site-specific pieces. A 1989 graduate of Goldsmiths College, Hirst was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Now one of the contemporary art world's most famous figures, Hirst continues to surprise audiences with a staggering diversity of work, ranging from sculpture and painting to installation and performance art. In 2012, a retrospective of his nearly 30-year career was staged at Tate Modern. Hirst is represented by Gagosian.
Don't Be So...
Title | Don't Be So... PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Fryer |
Publisher | Phaidon Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
By Paul Fryer. Artwork by Damien Hirst. Text by Harland Miller.
Con Art
Title | Con Art PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Spalding |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art, Modern |
ISBN | 9781475088434 |