Research Catalog

Title

Tom Burr : anthology : writings 1991-2015 / edited by Florence Derieux.

Author

Burr, Tom

Publication

Reims : FRAC Champagne-Ardenne ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, ©2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Derieux, Florence

Description

127 pages : illustrations; 33 cm

Summary

"Since the late 1980s, Tom Burr has been reusing appropriation strategies in his art. Not confined to his photographic and sculptural works, they also lend momentum to many of his writings. The artist has created assemblages of personal writings and sources, differing in nature and style, which he has used as both conceptual and aesthetic materials in his oeuvre. Thus, Burr extends his art praxis into the field of writing, and vice versa; art and language cannot be dissociated from each other. At times, the text precedes and anticipates the work; at others, it emanates and results from it; in most instances, it is an integral part of it. Words constitute the work. -- Thirty-seven texts--works, poems, autobiographical texts, and portraits--have been compiled for the first time in this publication. Written over a period of twenty-four years, they are presented chronologically, enabling us to fully appreciate the conceptual and visual coherence and richness of Burr's writings"--Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

Anthology : writings 1991-2015

Subject

• Burr, Tom
• Burr, Tom 1963-
• Geschichte 1991-2015
• Artists' writings

Contents

Foreword / Florence Derieux -- Unearthing the public toilet -- Just outside the museum ... -- Two adjacent structures -- A proposal (Sonsbeek 93) -- An American garden -- Site specific -- The storage project -- Screenplay for television -- Trash -- Circa 1977, Platzspitz Park Installation -- Sleazy City: 42 street structures and some qualities of life -- Revisions -- Subterranean park restroom clip -- Eight renovations -- The medical show -- Private property: Anti-public sculpture -- Edgar Allan Poe, Deep Purple, and Haus Salve Hospes -- Make-up -- Notes in preparation of : The Complete Stories of Truman Capote -- Privy, Please or loos, loo's & loss -- Sculpture in a constricted space -- Anxiety -- Moods -- Romantic manifesto -- Picture this -- On Addict Love -- Wry man -- I love electric lamps -- Thoughts on a given name -- Some elements of some styles -- Untitled -- Gravity moves me --Susan Blushing -- Promiscuous pleats -- Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern -- Dressage -- No access.

ISBN

• 3956791967
• 9783956791963

OCLC

• ocn930831275
• 930831275
• SCSB-1853410

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library