Research Catalog

Title

Peter Fischli, David Weiss : how to work better / [edited by] Nancy Spector and Nat Trotman.

Publication

New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications ; Munich : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Spector, Nancy
• Trotman, Nat
• Fischli & Weiss. Works. Selections.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, host institution, issuing body.
• Museo Jumex, host institution.
• Laurenz Foundation, (sponsoring body)

Description

xix, 379 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

Throughout the course of their collaboration, Peter Fischli and David Weiss celebrated the sheer triviality of everyday existence, observing the world with bemused detachment. As this book shows, their often humorous work offers a sustained reflection on the intertwined strands of leisure, productivity and playful absurdity that shape our lives. With its deliberately mundane subject matter and quotidian source material, their work explores the poetics of banality in a wide range of mediums, including photography, videos, slide projections, films, books, sculptures and multimedia installations. This retrospective volume features an in-depth, illustrated survey of the artists' long history of collaboration, from the early Sausage Series (1979)-staged vignettes created in miniature using deli meats and various household items-to their last work, the large-scale public installation Rock on Top of Another Rock (2010-13), augmented by archival images, notes on process and interview excerpts culled from the artists' Zurich-based archives. A series of probing essays on their practice and thematic concerns rounds out this definitive account of Fischli and Weiss's vital contribution to contemporary art. Exhibition: Solomon R. Gugenheim Museum, New York, USA (05.02-20.04.2016).

Alternative Title

• How to work better
• Peter Fischli and David Weiss
• Fischli and Weiss

Subject

• Fischli & Weiss > Exhibitions
• Fischli & Weiss

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better, Organized by Nancy Spector and Nat Trotman; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 5-April 20, 2016; Museo Jumex, Mexico City, June 9-September 17, 2016"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-376).

Language (note)

• Text translated from French and German.

Contents

Peter Fischli and David Weiss : Work -- What Shall I Waste My Time On? / Nancy Spector -- Phantoms / Nat Trotman -- Bad Products / Ann Goldstein -- Public Relations / John Kelsey -- Still Lives / Isabelle Graw.

Call Number

JQF 17-1923

ISBN

• 9783791355023
• 3791355023

LCCN

2015038191

OCLC

922970944

Title

Peter Fischli, David Weiss : how to work better / [edited by] Nancy Spector and Nat Trotman.

Publisher

New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications ; Munich : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2016.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-376).

Language

Text translated from French and German.

Added Author

Spector, Nancy, editor.

Trotman, Nat, editor.

Fischli & Weiss. Works. Selections.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, host institution, issuing body.

Museo Jumex, host institution.

Laurenz Foundation, (sponsoring body)

Research Call Number

JQF 17-1923