A highly anticipated and richly illustrated anthology of essays on the work of artist Tacita Dean. This volume explores the deeply-influential work of Tacita Dean, recognized increasingly as one of the key artists of our times. Emerging initially as part of the generation of the so-called Young British Artists in the 1990s, Dean has reinvented the manner in which artists use analogue mediums such as drawing, photography, and film, prompting major questions in her work around the issues of time, memory, and history.
Dean's films embrace long takes that achieve a near-photographic stillness; they have been dedicated to obsolescent objects or stranded buildings, failed quests, and extraordinary figures--usually other artists and writers--nearing the end of their lives. But Dean's contemplative films have been rigorously reinvented as a form over the course of her career and linked to a widening series of projects involving writing, chalk drawings, found photographs, dance, and theater. This anthology explores the artist's expansive practice, gathering essays and interviews by authors from an array of disciplines including art criticism, philosophy, literature, and film. Spanning twenty-five years of the artist's career, the volume includes writings by George Baker, Douglas Crimp, Brian Dillon, Briony Fer, Hal Foster, Mark Godfrey, Louise Hornby, Rosalind Krauss, Elisabeth Lebovici, Jean-Luc Nancy, Tamara Trodd, Marina Warner, Peter Wollen, and the artist herself.
一本備受期待且插圖豐富的隨筆集，探討藝術家 Tacita Dean 的作品。
本書探討了 Tacita Dean 的深具影響力的作品，她日益被認為是當代關鍵藝術家之一。Dean 最初作為1990年代所謂的年輕英國藝術家一代中的一員而崛起，她重新定義了藝術家使用類比媒介（如繪畫、攝影和電影）的方式，並在她的作品中提出了有關時間、記憶和歷史的重大問題。
Dean 的電影擁有長鏡頭，達到近乎攝影靜止的效果；這些作品致力於過時的物品或被遺棄的建築、失敗的探索以及接近生命終點的非凡人物——通常是其他藝術家和作家。然而，Dean 的沉思電影在她的職業生涯中經過嚴格的重新創造，並與一系列擴展的項目相連，這些項目涉及寫作、粉筆畫、發現的照片、舞蹈和戲劇。本隨筆集探討了這位藝術家的廣泛實踐，匯集了來自藝術批評、哲學、文學和電影等多個學科的作者的隨筆和訪談。涵蓋了藝術家二十五年的職業生涯，本書包括 George Baker、Douglas Crimp、Brian Dillon、Briony Fer、Hal Foster、Mark Godfrey、Louise Hornby、Rosalind Krauss、Elisabeth Lebovici、Jean-Luc Nancy、Tamara Trodd、Marina Warner、Peter Wollen 以及藝術家本人等人的著作。
George Baker is Professor and Chair of Art History at UCLA. An editor of
October magazine for the last twenty-five years, he previously edited the October Files 5, on
James Coleman (MIT Press). His books include
The Artwork Caught by the Tail (MIT Press) and
Lateness and Longing.
Annie Rana is an independent researcher based in Los Angeles. She was previously Senior Project Manager at the Getty Research Institute, where she oversaw the Getty Research Portal. She worked with Tacita Dean on the artist's edition
Monet Hates Me and on a related book of the same name.
喬治·貝克（George Baker）是加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）藝術史系的教授及系主任。他在過去二十五年中擔任《October》雜誌的編輯，之前編輯了《October Files 5》，該書專注於詹姆斯·科爾曼（James Coleman）（麻省理工學院出版社）。他的著作包括《The Artwork Caught by the Tail》（麻省理工學院出版社）和《Lateness and Longing》。
安妮·拉納（Annie Rana）是一位駐洛杉磯的獨立研究者。她曾擔任蓋提研究所（Getty Research Institute）的高級專案經理，負責監督蓋提研究門戶網站。她與塔西塔·迪恩（Tacita Dean）合作，參與了藝術家版《Monet Hates Me》及其相關書籍的編輯。
