Paul Schimmel

Hubert Klocker

Guy Brett

Kristine Stiles

Shin'ichirō Osaki

Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979

Out of Actions

Cildo Meireles

Lavishly illustrated, this volume includes thematic essays and commentaries on works by this Brazilian, who has made some of the most politically telling and aesthetically seductive works in modern art.

Celebrated art critic and curator, Guy Brett is a leading writer who has made a significant contribution to art criticism and curating, in particular to the development of art internationally. From the 1960s onwards he has championed influential and experimental artists across the world through some key exhibitions and publications.The fourteen essays in this book bring together a unique gathering of artists, tracing their diversity and singularity to reveal the uniqueness of each one. Many of these artists make works which arise out of their response to the situation or the environment in which they find themselves, a process that draws on the hundreds of ways people connect, the countless interactions people have in any place, in any medium, and in any real or imaginary way.Brett's writing has a unique tone - lucid and widely researched, free of a narrow academicism. He has published widely in the art press and has produced numerous essays, including those in this book, addressing topics such as the relationship between art and life, ideas about the participation of the spectator, performance art, and the importance of a kind of visual wit to both artists and writers.The Crossing of Innumerable Paths includes essays on Ana Mendieta, Dias & Riedweg, Javier Téllez, Jimmie Durham, Monika Weiss, Len Lye, Gianni Colombo, Liliane Lijn, Gego, Anne Bean, Aubrey Williams, Victor Grippo, Peter Kennard and Lygia Pape.Guy Brett is Curator of the Takis exhibition currently on show at Tate Modern, London (3 July- 27 October 2019).

Essays on Art: Guy Brett

The Crossing of Innumerable Paths

Yuan-Chia Li

Nick Sawyer

A monograph, this book documents the artist's life and work and includes photographs which have never before been reproduced. It also contains a selection of his short texts and poems, which reflect his feelings on the open question of the relationship between art and life.

Tell Me what is Not Yet Said

Li Yuan-Chia

Michael Wellen

One of the most playful, innovative and eccentric artists of Postwar Europe,Takis (b.1925, Athens) was a catalysing figure in the artistic and literarycircles of Paris, London and New York from the 1950s onward.Pioneering a variety of sculpture, painting and musical structures, Takismade works that harness invisible natural forces. Perhaps best known arehis innovative 'telemagnetic' works, begun in the late 1950s using everydaymetallic objects that float in space through the use of magnets. Theseinvestigations and his fierce individualism won him the admiration of Beatwriters such as Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs and caused polemicswith his artistic contemporaries Yves Klein, Giacometti and Jean Tinguely.This publication will be the first English-language introduction to a keyfigure of Europe's post-war avant-garde and cultural underground. Througha combination of new essays and a key selection of primary sources, thispublication will foreground the artist's influence in contemporary art sincethe 1960s - and it's accessible and thematic approach will expand theaudience for this book far beyond the specialist.

Takis

Gabriel Orozco

Texts by Jean Fisher, Guy Brett and Daniel McLane. This catalog documents an installation done in an abandoned London club by contemporary artist Gabriel Orozco. Consisting of works centered on the imagery of British sports and club life, the exhibition was an important one in the development of this emerging and daring artist.

Empty Club

Des Moines Art Center

Olga M. Viso

Ana Mendieta

Julia P. Herzberg

Chrissie Iles

Laura Roulet

Miami Art Museum

Essays by Olga M. Viso, Guy Brett, Julia P. Herzberg, Chrissie Iles and Laura Roulet.

Earth Body : Sculpture and Performance, 1972-1985

Catherine de Zegher

Nancy Spector

M. Catherine de Zegher

Michael Archer

Mona Hatoum

Buy Brett

An exploration of the artist's powerful evocations of statelessness, otherness and denial.

Lygia Pape

Guy Brett

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