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Paul Thek: What the Tortoise Taught Us by Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag (Paperback, 2008)

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This study of the American-born cult artist Paul Thek presents works from 1963 to 1988 alongside essays, documentary images and a narrative biography. After confronting Conceptualism and Minimalism in his New York work of the 1960s, Thek pioneered large-scale spatial installation in Europe in the 1970s. Deeply distrustful of and even repulsed by the entrenched hierarchies and orthodoxies of the international art world and ambivalent about his own position within it, he made artworks that were at once deeply ironic, biting and achingly sad. For example, his best kwn piece, The Tomb, which was installed at New York's Stable Gallery in 1967, was a cast of Thek's own body laid down on the floor in a posture of death, indicating the demise of the bohemian artist. In later, more spatially oriented works, he attempted to remove any trace of himself as the author. Thek died of AIDS in 1988, leaving behind a complex artistic legacy.

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Publisher
Buchhandlung Walther Konig Gmbh & Co. Kg. Abt. Verlag
ISBN-10
3865603904
ISBN-13
9783865603906
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107996711

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Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Individual Artists / Art Monographs

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Place of Publication
Cologne
Edited by
Axel Heil, Roberto Ohrt, Margit Brehm
Content Note
Colour Illustrations
Date of Publication
01/03/2008
Country of Publication
Germany

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