Lovett and Codagnone (9788881585625)

For the past 10 years, John Lovett and Alessandro Codagnone have been working collaboratively as Lovett/Codagnone. Their performance work and video installations explore power relations, both as manifested in explicit cultural signifiers like S/M and in clandestine or unconscious practices. Previous photography-based collaborations displaced gay subcultural signifiers into suburban environments or urban public spaces. In more recent works, the audience is confronted with an appropriation of theatrical fallout, scripted communication that makes up patterns of interaction and dysfunction within family structures. The complexity of human dynamics is explored and re-delivered, often through the distilling of a pose that demands intensity and endurance. Lovett/Codagnone's strenuous performances convey uncomfortable and complex relationships in which the only constant is ever-shifting power roles.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 128 pages
• Dimensions 170.2 x 236.2 x 15.2mm | 453.6g
• Publication date 03 Jun 2010
• Publisher Edizioni Charta Srl
• Publication City/Country Milano, Italy
• Language English, Italian
• Edition Bilingual edition
• Edition Statement Bilingual
• Illustrations note 113 colour illustrations
• ISBN10 8881585626
• ISBN13 9788881585625

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Georges Adeagbo (9788881588282)

This is a superbly illustrated look at the latest works of acclaimed "found" object artist Georges Adeagbo. Georges Adeagbo (b.1942) is a Beninese artist best known for his work with found objects. Adeagbo studied law in France and the Ivory Coast before returning to Benin in 1971 after the death of his father. Suffering from a profound sense of isolation and alienation, he began to create "installations" from objects he collected, but it was not until the 1990s and a chance encounter with a critic that that he began to receive recognition for his work. He was awarded the Prize of Honour at the 48th Venice Biennale for his exhibition The Story of the Lion. This superbly illustrated volume examines Adeagbo's latest works which focus on the complex theme of Missionaries and Martyrs.

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• Format Paperback | 176 pages
• Dimensions 170 x 238 x 14mm | 639.56g
• Publication date 31 Aug 2012
• Publisher Edizioni Charta Srl
• Publication City/Country Milano, Italy
• Language English
• Illustrations note 112 full-colour illustrations & 21 b&w illustrations
• ISBN10 8881588285
• ISBN13 9788881588282
• Bestsellers rank 1,459,383

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Shirin Neshat : The Last Word (9788881585519)

The first monograph to thoroughly document Shirin Neshat's video production, The Last Word provides both a beautiful reminder of her work's color and intensity and a crucial tool for her increasing number of fans and scholars. Neshat, who studied in the United States and has lived in New York for many years, found international success following the explosive release of her images of Muslim women wrapped in chadors with verses by rebel Persian poetesses traced on their faces, hands and feet. She became renowned when her short film "Turbulent" was awarded the Leone d'Oro at the 1999 Venice Biennale. With her camera persistently focused on the veiled women of the Muslim world, Neshat has continued to make striking and courageous work of rare beauty and intensity, and has presented it to continuing acclaim. She goes fearlessly into the widening gulf between conformism and revolt, submission and compliance, that characterizes the women of the Muslim world, seeking out images from the far sides of the divide that will both narrow the distance and help viewers sound its depths. "The Last Word" is a necessity for those who would approach, informed, the poetic works and the fierce commitment of an extraordinary artist.

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• Format Hardback | 252 pages
• Dimensions 289.6 x 289.6 x 27.9mm | 2,109.23g
• Publication date 11 Jun 2009
• Publisher Edizioni Charta Srl
• Publication City/Country Milano, Italy
• Language English, Spanish
• Edition Bilingual edition
• Edition Statement Bilingual
• Illustrations note 67 colour illustrations, 47 duotone illustrations
• ISBN10 8881585510
• ISBN13 9788881585519
• Bestsellers rank 2,236,666

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