Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012) collaborate to transform the stuff of ordinary life into a series of quizzical, whimsical, even disquieting encounters. Fascinated with unconventional subject matter and material, Fischli and Weiss toy with the idea of "high art," questioning popular narratives and movements in art and cultural history. Peter Fischli David Weiss presents an in-depth survey of the artists' work from 1979 through 2012, drawn exclusively from Glenstone's collection. The volume includes ...
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Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012) collaborate to transform the stuff of ordinary life into a series of quizzical, whimsical, even disquieting encounters. Fascinated with unconventional subject matter and material, Fischli and Weiss toy with the idea of "high art," questioning popular narratives and movements in art and cultural history. Peter Fischli David Weiss presents an in-depth survey of the artists' work from 1979 through 2012, drawn exclusively from Glenstone's collection. The volume includes rubber and clay sculptures, photographic series including Equilibres (A Quiet Afternoon) and Sausage Series , digital slides such as Airports and Flowers and Mushrooms , stills from their acclaimed video The Way Things Go and the most recent iteration of their alter egos, Rat and Bear . Also reproduced is the artists' most ambitious polyurethane installation, The Objects for Glenstone , and Questions , a slide installation of over 400 handwritten existential queries such as "Is the Devil a cheerful person?" and "Will happiness find me?" which won the Golden Lion Prize at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
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VG+ White cloth over boards, color pictorial dj. 256 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held May 2013 through February 2015, the first in-depth representation of Fischli/Weiss's work in the United States since 1996. With a foreword by Emily Wei Rales and Mitchell P. Rales. Introduction by Emily Wei Rales. Wonderfully and highly illustrated!
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Fine in fine jacket. Illustrated with color photographs of the works of the artists. 256 pages. 4to, white cloth, dust wrapper. Potomac: Glenstone, (2013). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. From 1979 to 2012, Swiss artists Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012) collaborated on a body of work that offers a deceptively casual meditation on how we perceive everyday life. Through a witty misuse of cultural genres from low-budget Hollywood movies and picture-postcard views to the art historical notion of the readymade they transformed the ordinary into something decisively not.
