Form Follows Fiction

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As elements of our life move closer to art, and as art moves directly into life, the differences between the artificial and real are becoming progressively blurred. Form Follows Fiction focuses on a generation of artists who can no longer follow the modernist dictum "form follows function"; as our model of reality becomes more layered and less concrete, that decree morphs inevitably into "form follows fiction." Some of these artists create structures that intersect with everyday life, while others construct elaborate fictional systems that fuse elements of reality and fantasy. Some fashion elaborate invented worlds where past, present, and future are collapsed into one and where art historical icons and the debris of contemporary pop culture have equal relevance. All have developed new models of contemporary reality that are as fictional as they are real. Form Follows Fiction was conceived as a sequel to the 1992 exhibition Post Human, also curated by Jeffrey Deitch, which explored a new model of the human condition, pushing deep into the confusion between the artificial and the real.

Parkett No. 71: Olaf Breuning, Richard Phillips, Keith Tyson Plus Pipilotti Rist (Parkett)

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Parkett No. 71: Olaf Breuning, Richard Phillips, Keith Tyson Plus Pipilotti Rist (Parkett)
Olaf Breuning , Richard Phillips , and Keith Tyson
Manufacturer: Parkett
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ASIN: 3907582314
Release Date: 2004-10-02

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For 20 years, Parkett presented unparalleled explorations and discussions of important international contemporary artists by esteemed writers and critics. These investigations continue in issue No. 70, which features collaborations by Swiss-American visual artist and composer Christian Marclay, Polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal, and British video artist and photographer Gillian Wearing. Each of these artists has carved out a unique manner of working with the mediums of sculpture, painting, and photography, respectively. As well, each artist extends the use of film and video to reflect political, social, or popular culture. Authors include Ingrid Schaffner, Philip Sherburne, and Philippe Vergne on Marclay; Meghan Dailey, Gregor Jansen, and Adam Szymczyk on Sasnal; and Gordon Burn and Dan Cameron on Gillian Wearing, with a conversation between Cay Sophie Rabinowitz and Wearing. Also in this issue: Greg Hilty on Rebecca Warren, Dominic van den Boogerd on Aernout Mik, Catherine Wood on Mark Leckey, Carolee Thea on Joan Jonas, and an insert by Nic Hess. To celebrate Parkett's 20th Anniversary, this year's three issues (No. 70, 71, 72) will feature special contributions by both artists and writers on the current state of materiality in contemporary art. Scholarly writers look back to how earlier generations of artists employed materials and how this differs from so many contemporary artists' material engagements today. Collaborating artists of the past two decades contribute anecdotes, drawings, and photographs commemorating their experiences with Parkett. Best of all is the inclusion of an additional fourth collaborating artist who will participate in a discussion about his or her relationship to materiality and will create a new Parkett edition: with Franz West in issue No. 70, Pipilotti Rist No. 71 and Alex Katz in issue No. 72. For Parkett No. 71, the featured collaborating artists will be Swiss installation and video artist Olaf Breunning; British conceptualist Keith Tyson; and American painter Richard Phillips.

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parkett.......2000-10-14

this is a cool magazine with excellent pictures and a conversation between pipilotti rist and laurie anderson which is much more interesting than your average interview. it's not worth the [cost] because the articles suck. i would recommend a different issue of parkett, espaecially the one that features charles ray because he is fantastic!

Pipilotti Rist (Contemporary Artists Series)

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Pipilotti Rist (Contemporary Artists Series)
Peggy Phelan
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
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ASIN: 0714839655

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Swiss-born artist Pipilotti Rist creates colourful multi-screen video works which, often with the pace and seduction of a pop promo, signal the birth of a new interdisciplinary art form. With such lighthearted artworks as Ever Is Over All presented at the 1997 Venice Biennale (which won Rist the Biennale's Premio 2000), showing a princess-like young girl blithely smashing car windows, Rist invents new possibilities for poetry, feminine identity and the traditional genre of portraiture. The highly accomplished technological skill reflected in her work since the late 1980s, incorporating in unprecedented ways the art forms of film, music, sculpture and performance, have established Rist among the world's best-known contemporary video artists. Critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses with Rist the collaborative nature of her work, from her college-day video experiments to her recent large-screen installation in New York's Times Square. In her Survey feminist theorist and critic Peggy Phelan looks at the many sources behind Rist's art, from other contemporary artists working with video, to Andy Warhol, MTV, Impressionist flower painting and Hollywood film. In her Focus, theorist Elisabeth Bronfen makes a psychoanalytical study of Rist's portrait of defeat and failure, the 1998 video (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes. The subtle poetry of Rist's work is reflected in her two Artist's Choice selections, the poem Barefoot by Anne Sexton and a short story by Richard Brautigan, as well as in her dreamy diaristic Artist's Writings.

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Pipilotti Rist Congratulations!

Manufacturer: Lars Müller Publishers
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Pipilotti Rist: Apricots along the Streets

ASIN: 3037781084

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Pipilotti Rist, one of the most acclaimed Swiss artists of today, and Richard Julin, chief curator at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (Sweden), met for a day in Zurich in connection with the preparations for Rist’s solo exhibition "Gravity, Be My Friend” in Stockholm in Spring 2007. Their conversation began at the artist’s studio and carried on into the evening back at her home, while they cooked and ate dinner together. The resulting book "Congratulations!” is a very personal and fascinating conversation that reveals new dimensions of the world of Pipilotti Rist, with anecdotes from the creation process and reflections on life, art and food.

The richly illustrated book features images of the major new piece, "Tyngdkraft, var min vän” (Gravity, Be My Friend), created especially for the exhibition. Never before published images of recent works by Pipilotti Rist such as "Homo Sapiens Sapiens” shown at the Venice Biennale 2005, "A Liberty Statue For Löndön”, 2006, and many other seminal works are also included.

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Wonderland
Brent Benjamin , Janet Cardiff , Pipilotti Rist , and Joep van Lieshout
Manufacturer: The Saint Louis Art Museum
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ASIN: 0891780823
Release Date: 2000-11-02

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This accompanying catalogue to the current exhibition of installation art at the St. Louis Museum of Art is just as impressive in form as it is in content: Wonderland comes with a special insert containing photographs of the on-site installations, reproduced in full-color posters. This innovative design is a perfect complement to the sense of active creation, of imagination, and of joy that characterizes the works of art here. The ten artists represented*Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernandez, Stephen Hendee, Bill Klaila, Joep van Lieshout, Ernesto Neto, Pipilotti Rist, Gregor Schneider, and Jennifer Steinkamp*make art whose constructed or alternate realities inspire and engage our physical involvement with them, creating an experience for the body as well as the intellect. In addition to the works themselves, Wonderland features interviews with the artists and critical essays by authors including Terence Riley, Chief Curator of Architecure and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Beatriz Colomina Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, and Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.

Pipilotti Rist: Apricots along the Streets

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Pipilotti Rist: Apricots along the Streets
Pipilotti Rist
Manufacturer: Scalo Publishers
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ASIN: 3908247500

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"I shall make a classical artist's book, and it will fulfill no expectations, except that this volume will become a book I would love to get from my twin sister, who only exists in my dreams. The book will consist of photographs and video stills, poems, facsimiles of drawings and other traces with explanations--an encyclopedia of afternoons without any alphabetical order. The book will praise life, it will be charming and compassionate, with numerous details to get lost in, and survival strategies to discover. A pocket book that one wants to look at again and again, the book will be created on the carpet of my apartment on the 15th floor and in designer Thomas Rhyner's generous house. His house leaks when it rains and I am shortsighted and have to go closer to see. The eye is a blood-driven camera." With such poetic and enigmatic words internationally acclaimed artist Pipilotti Rist describes her new book. Rist's imagery oscillates between video clips and the melancholic desire to daydream (im-)possible worlds. Her installations and videos attract a large public that might never have visited a museum before. Pipilotti Rist indeed has a following that reaches far beyond the world of contemporary art.

"Rist's work gives you the uncanny feeling of floating through someone else's consciousness, of knowing their inner thoughts and seeing the everyday world through their eyes. She takes you out of yourself, places you in her body and the bodies of others, then plops you back into your own skin again...She embraces her femininity; exudes power, control, and sex; avoids clichés and uses them at the same time. Her comedic touch evinces an enormous freedom and imagination." Jerry Saltz, "Village Voice"

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Like some benign infestation, bubbles (and related forms) seem to be springing up everywhere lately in contemporary art. Thin Skin brings together some of the most interesting contemporary work involving malleable, inflatable materials, including pieces by James Lee Byars, Charles and Ray Eames, Olafur Eliasson, Tom Friedman, Piero Manzoni, Ernesto Neto, Pipilotti Rist, Miri Segal, and Andy Warhol. Thin Skin identifies their current popularity as a function of two contemporary conditions: a new awareness of 'in-between' spaces, spaces neither real nor completely virtual, situations neither entirely in our control nor totally beyond it; and a new understanding of our own bodies as permeable sensors in constant osmotic exchange as they move through these spaces. An original and thought-provoking accumulation of inflatables, Thin Skin proves that thinness and transparency are indeed the symbolic, and maybe even the real, skin that encase contemporary spaces and bodies.

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Fast Forward
Sabine Himmelsbach , Stephan Urbaschek , Chantal Akerman , Tacita Dean , Wolfgang Tillmans , Peter Fischli , Gillian Wearing , David Weiss , Tracey Emin , Annika Larsson , Steve McQueen , Paul Pfieffer , Eija-Liisa Ahtila , Doug Aitken , Francis Alys , Emmanuelle Antille , Rodney Graham , Gabriel Orozco , Tony Oursler , and Pipilotti Rist
Manufacturer: Ingvild Goetz/Stephan Urbaschek
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3980806391
Release Date: 2004-02-02

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At this point in art time, new media work needs no longer be prefixed by "new." With a firm place in institutional and private collections, with an ever-burgeoning range of practitioners, media art can safely be considered a part of the contemporary canon. And hence Fast Forward, a hefty, thorough reference guide, a virtual catalogue raisonn of the medium, from works found in the Goetz Collection. Over 180 film and video works by almost 80 international artists are represented, including: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Chantal Akerman, Francis Als, Emmanuelle Antille, Kutlug Ataman, Matthew Barney, Andrea Bowers, Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller, Tacita Dean, Rineke Dijkstra, Stan Douglas, Tracey Emin, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, Mona Hatoum, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Pierre Huyghe, Annika Larsson, Sharon Lockhart, Steve McQueen, Bj0rn Melhus, Arnout Mik, Tracey Moffatt, Sarah Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Tony Oursler, Paul Pfeiffer, Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Pipilotti Rist, Santiago Sierra, Beat Streuli, Sam Taylor-Wood, Diana Thater, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, and Gilian Wearing. The book is rounded off with introductory essays by Peter Weibel, Stephan Urbaschek, Mark Nash, and Sabine Himmelsbach, plus short essays on individual artists, and bibliographic and technical information.

Pipilotti Rist (Friedrich Christian Flick Collection)

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Pipilotti Rist
Manufacturer: Dumont
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ASIN: 3832175784
Release Date: 2006-08-15

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Pipilotti Rist continually reinvents the art of installation. With her multimedia audio and video installations, the Swiss-born artist creates and innovatively transforms big and small spaces, activates machines and produces serial video stills filled with her very individual and vivid imagery. Her everyday themes and images reflect fundamental, vital issues: love and loss, birth and death, family and solitude, gender and individuality, dream and reality. The artist directly involves the observers of her art and experiments with the communicative and performative abilities of the human body. Supplemented with short interviews on each of the pieces highlighted, Enne Sall's introduction offers the first systematic overview of the works of Pipilotti Rist. Beautifully designed and unusally engaging text.

Pepperminta Homo sapiens sapiens: Boxa ludens

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Pepperminta Homo sapiens sapiens: Boxa ludens
Pipilotti Rist
Manufacturer: Lars Müller Publishers
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ASIN: 3037780517

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This artist's book by the internationally celebrated Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist is literally a chocolate box themed to address the last, mysterious 15 minutes before the fall of man. Published by one of the most important publishers of international art and design books and edited by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, it is a deluxe and seductive object that will also serve as the official publication for Rist's exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale. The box includes a poster and images of saints, dreams and ideas of paradise. Rist burst onto the international art scene in the mid-1990s with mesmerizing video installations influenced by visual art, music, architecture, and social politics. Her witty, poetic, and experimental work fuses natural and urban worlds, and often features erotic or uncanny images of the human body, particularly her own. Inspired by artists like Nam June Paik and Yoko Ono, Rist's work expands into gallery spaces in a manner that encourage viewers to see and experience art in unconventional ways. Boxed, 7.5 x 10 in./25 pgs / Illustrated throughout.

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A 1996 nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this perceptive, meticulously researched biography rescues from obscurity the gifted Billy Strayhorn (1915-67), Duke Ellington's arranger and composer of many popular Ellington Orchestra tunes, including "Take the `A' Train." Worshipped by jazz aficionados as the creative power behind the Ellington throne, Strayhorn preferred to live quietly while his friend/boss took the bows. In clear prose and with careful attention to nuance, David Hajdu documents Strayhorn's contributions to the Ellington magic and delineates an attractive personality who found good in almost everyone he met.

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Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award

Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as "Take the 'A' Train." Yet all his life Strayhorn was overshadowed by his fri and collaborator Duke Ellington, with whom he worked for three decades as the Ellington Orchestra's ace songwriter and arranger.A "definitive" corrective (USA Today) to decades of patchwork scholarship and journalism about this giant of jazz, Lush Life is a vibrant and absorbing account of the "lush life" Strayhorn and other jazz musicians led in Harlem and Paris. While composing some of the most gorgeous American music of this century, Strayhorn labored under a complex agreement whereby Ellington took the bows for his work; until his life was tragically cut short by cancer and alcohol abuse, the small, shy black composer carried himself with singular style and grace as one of the few jazzmen to be openly homosexual. Lush Life has sparked an enthusiastic revival of interest in Billy Strayhorn's work. It is already acknowledged as a jazz classic.

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a lush story..........2007-06-25

one of the most interesting biographies I've ever read. When Billy Strayhorn was growing up in Pittsburgh he met Duke Ellington in the back of the theatre after a concert Duke performed at. He blew Duke away when Billy played the piano for him. Years later Duke would remember him and asked Billy to come out to NYC to see him. When Billy asked for directions Duke would write on a piece of paper, take the A train. While on the A train to Upper Manhattan to see Duke, Billy wrote the music for 'Take the A Train". So it goes the great collaboration between Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn would begin. Always in the background and never given the proper credit for all the music he wrote Billy Strayhorn would live a lush life. Travelling the world and meeting the kings and queens of the jazz world, he could be the life of the party but the applause for Duke Ellington's music would bypass him. Being black and gay back in those days was not acceptable behavior so Billy stayed in the background and Duke kept him. Billy wrote the music and Duke played it, his own personal muse. Billy loved the 3 am hour the best, it was the happiest hour of the day when you're too exhausted to care anymore and numb to everything else. A wonderful book.

very detailed book.......2002-05-06

i find myself always enjoying Books on People&this is no exception.very well detailed Book on a Important Composer&His Many Demons&Surroundings.I heard a few years back that Will Smith was considering doing the Bio Movie on Billy Strayhorn.it would be really interesting to see how things would come out on the Big screen.this book reflects on Music Talent&whole Life.very well done book.

A very enjoyable read.......2001-09-25

This book has a lot going for it. Do you like music, swing and jazz? Do you like intersting people? Did you live through the 30's, 40's and 50's? Do you enjoy reading about that era? Do you enjoy reading a well written biogratphy? If the answer to any of these is yes, you'll like this book, it the answer is yes to several of these questions then you'll LOVE this book. David Hajdu has done an exemplary job of documenting the life of Billy Strayhorn. I really felt like I knew the man after reading this. He has done his research and he also writes with a very smooth style that keeps you intersted. I love music and I've read bios of Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, BB King, Chuck Berry, Led Zepplin, Allman Bros. on and on. This is one of the best if not the best music bio I've read.

The World of Ellingtonia.......2001-05-12

Great Book... if you're an Ellington fan and like "Strays" music this is an absolute must. Very informative and interesting and also great reading. The author was here in Seattle for an Elllngton concert with Earshot Jazz and I met and chatted with him.... a very charming and informed man. cmm

Well Rounded Review.......2000-12-28

Hajdu really does a nice job of summarizing the life of a songwriter. He keeps his story moving with pacing, characters, travel, and yes, even drama! Racial prejudice, sexual prejudice, loneliness and alcoholism did nothing to stop this little man from Pittsburgh who knew he was destined to a "lush life" and wrote about it in his fantasies, such as the title song begun at age 19 in Pittsburgh.

He grew up poor, effeminate, and misunderstood; but he loved the theater, and he knew where he belonged. Off to New York where his awesome talent so impressed Duke Ellington that he was immediately hired into the organization, where he would thrive and struggle and live and write for the rest of his life. He died of cancer, after penning and arranging much of Ellington's later work.

The book tells his story with panache that would make him proud!

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LUSH LIFE: A BIOGRAPHY OF BILLY STRAYHORN
David HAJDU
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HJOXP2

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Lush life / a biography of Billy Strayhorn
David Hajdu
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Lush Life : A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
David Hajdu
Manufacturer: Granta Books
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ASIN: B000O87NDU

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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
David Hajdu
Manufacturer: North Point Press/Farrar Straus & Giroux
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