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Art and Its Objects: Five Essays on Contemporary Art Selected by Jonathan Watkins

Watkins, Jonathan

Art and Its Objects: Five Essays on Contemporary Art Selected by Jonathan Watkins - Baghdad; Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture; 2017 - Ruya Notebooks; #1 .

Jonathan Watkins is Director of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and a collaborator of the Ruya Foundation. His Ruya Notebook will include a new introductory essay by Watkins entitled ‘Art and its Objects’ and the following five texts:
John Berger, Ways of Seeing, ‘Chapter 1’ (1972)
Alfred Gell, ‘Vogel’s Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps’, first published in Journal of Material Culture (1996)
Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory, ‘Preface’ (2010)
Will Self, ‘Are the hyper-rich ruining the new Tate Modern?’, first published in The Guardian (2014)
Gavin Brown and Daniel Baumann, ‘The Demise of the Future’, first published in Spike (2014)


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