Words and Things - celebrating fifty years of writing on art
| Author | Ruth Bretherick ed. |
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| Publisher | Fruitmarket Gallery |
| ISBN | 9781908612755 |
| Idea Code | 250560 |
Words and Things is a celebration of writing on art published by Fruitmarket over the gallery'sfifty-year history. Art historical scholarship by the world's leading thinkers on art is broughttogether with artists' writings and in-conversations, punctuated by poems and short stories. This volume creates space for its reader to reflect upon what it means to write about and alongside art, and how words and things can create a rich pendulum of thought, with text elucidating object and vice versa. The selected texts represent the diversity of Fruitmarket's programme of Scottish and international contemporary artists.
| 256 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English |
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