| Mark Dion Contributor(s): Graziose Corrin, Lisa (Author), Kwon, Miwon (Author), Bryson, Norman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0714836591 ISBN-13: 9780714836591 Publisher: Phaidon Press OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1997 Annotation: Mark Dion is an American artist who metamorphoses into an explorer, biochemist, detective and archaeologist. In his gallery installations around Europe and America since the 1980s, Dion has constructed the laboratories, experiments and museum caches of the great historical naturalists -- following in their footsteps in his own adventurous, eco-inspired journeys to the tropics. His research and magical collections are presented in installational still lifes which combine taxidermic animals with lab equipment with artefacts, like walk-through Wunderkammers, life-sized cabinets of curiosity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Art | Popular Culture - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 709.73 |
| Series: Contemporary Artists (Phaidon) |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 9.98" W x 11.5" (2.16 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This text explores the work of vanguard artist Mark Dion who has made site-specific projects all over the world which explore the relationship of Western art, literature and museology with the natural environment. His sculptures and installations often focus on contemporary environmental issues, and have the uncanny quality of film sets or dioramas. His life-size environments have included live and stuffed animals, plants, lab equipment, and museological displays of garbage. They present lyrical and funny investigations into exoticism, colonialism and environmental crisis. |