Isa Genzken: Oil, German Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2007 [Hardcover]

Isa Genzken (Author), Nicolaus Schafhausen (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 28, 2010

For more than 30 years, the German artist Isa Genzken (born 1948) has been amassing a body of work in sculpture, installation, photography, collage and film. As one of Germany's brightest stars in the art world, she was well suited to represent her country at the Venice Biennale in 2007, an occasion which this volume commemorates. The title of this book and of her installation at the German pavilion plays with the word's associations as a global and globally contested resource, through a series of sculptural installations invoking in particular America's dependence on oil.

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About the Author

NICOLAUS SCHAFHAUSEN is Director of Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam,The Netherlands. JULIANE REBENTISCH is Professor of Ethics and Aesthetics at the Universität Potsdam, Germany. VANESSA JOAN MÜLLER is Artistic Director of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf. The British artist LIAM GILLICK and the Dutch artist WILLEM DE ROOIJ are based in London, New York and Berlin respectively.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 212 pages
• Publisher: DuMont Buchverlag; Bilingual edition (February 28, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3832177973
• ISBN-13: 978-3832177973
• Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 9.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,672,616 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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