Friday, September 16, 2011

NEW BOOKS: Love Is What You Want, Free Press, Behind the Fourth Wall

Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want. Yet another Hayward Gallery catalogue has arrived in our library shelves and they have not stopped enchanting us. This time it is with Tracey Emin's exhibition, "Love is what you want" the book covers the exhibition's works, including many that have never been shown before.
There is a range of video and installation work as well as her well-known text pieces. The survey of Emin's work reveals years of very introspective, desperate, irony that most often resonates with longing.
Come check it out!

Free Press: Underground & Alternative Publication 1965-1975. The publications shown in this book were all members of the Underground Press Syndicate, which was founded in 1967 and later renamed the Alternative Press Syndicate. The members founded the APS so that they could freely share and reprint material. The APS' model exploded world-wide with dozens of alternative publications. The books documents publications from politics, film and fashion- to name a few. And considers such writers as Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Coraghessan Boyle, etc. It is quite a find!



Behind the Fourth Wall: Fictitious Lives-Lived Fictions. This is the catalogue for the exhibition by the same name that occurred at the Generali Foundation in Vienna last year. The artists in the show were invited to react to the medium of the fourth wall which was first proposed by Diderot as the imaginary wall at the very front of the stage that would complete the conventional three-wall box set theatre. The idea is to consider the boundary between any fictional work and its audience. Thus, the exhibition ranges from many different mediums, such as photography, video installation, slide shows and live work considering this term.