Product Description

In 1995 Cornelia Parker put actress Tilda Swinton in a vitrine, sleeping on display at London's Serpentine Gallery. (Unlike Damien Hirst's lamb under glass there, the artist had the subject's full cooperation.) Parker's brand of conceptual art takes iconic and historically powerful objects, such as a feather from Freud's pillow or soil removed from under the Leaning Tower of Pisa to prevent its collapse, and transforms it into art that both resonates with that power and becomes something new--and often beautiful. In the case of the Pisa dirt, the suspended clumps, exposed to air for the first time in 800 years, float as if released from gravity. Perpetual Canon features Parker's installation in the historic cupola hall of the Württembergischer Kunstverein art center in Stuttgart, along with a number of her works on paper. In this collection, the artist again and again unearths the subconscious within the familiar and the cliché, causing us to see them anew. Whether drawing out a filament from dental-filling gold or splitting objects with the same guillotine used to decapitate Marie Antoinette, Parker constantly challenges what we know and what we think we know. Edited by Andrea Jahn. Hardcover, 8.75 x 10.25 in./88 pgs / 67 color and 3 b&w.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2049031 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-15
• Released on: 2005-08-15
• Original language: English, German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 88 pages

About the Author
Cornelia Parker is a British artist whose work has been exhibited widely in the United States. She had her first solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, in 2000, and participated in an artist-in-residency program at SITE Santa Fe. Her work has been reviewed in major publications, including ARTnews, and she shows in New York at Deitch Projects. She lives and works in London.

Customer Reviews

$500? No Way!!!!
I saw this thinnish book at a small NYC gallery, and hoped to find a copy.
She's a terrific artist, but there isn't enough of her best work to justify
even a $100 pricetag.
The real value looks to be around $27, and since it's out ot print, I'd pay $40 to
have photos of one or two of her exceptional pieces in the book.
I guess with the deflated dollar, Europeans will find $500 a bargain for an
unexceptional book on this outstanding artist.

Great interviews and etc.
Often times in art books I am more drawn to the images than the text. This book has some wonderful essays and a fantastic interview with Cornelia Parker. Probably one of the best books I have seen on her.