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

By:

Watkins, Jonathan

Series: Ruya Notebooks ; #1Publication details: Baghdad; Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture; 2017ISBN:

9781635872989

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	SAF Reference Library	N81-390 221.56 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1327
Book	SAF Reference Library	N81-390 221.56 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1327-2

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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