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)