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Melanie Smith: Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures

Melanie Smith: Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures

by Dawn Ades
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/07/2007

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The English-born artist Melanie Smith has been involved in the Mexican art scene since the late 1980s, and Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures is her first significant monograph--published in conjunction with the artist's 2006 retrospective exhibition at Mexico City's University Museum of Sciences and Arts, commonly known as MUCA. This volume also serves as an introduction to the various media that Smith has been exploring since her arrival in Mexico two decades ago. It includes video, photography, installation and painting. Spiral City is a supersaturated project that provides the reader with visual and written information without ever falling into the predictable patterns of a traditional retrospective catalogue. With texts by Dawn Ades, Cuauhtemoc Medina and Eduardo Abaroa, and a written conversation between David Batchelor and the artist.
ISBN:
9789689056072
9789689056072
Category:
Individual artists
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-07-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Turner/ A&r Press/Coleccion Jumex
Country of origin:
Mexico
Pages:
207
Dimensions (mm):
240x189x21mm
Weight:
0.83kg
Dawn Ades

Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex. She has written extensively on Dada, Surrealism, photography and women artists, among other things. Publications include Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978), Photomontage (1976), Dalí (1995), Writings on Art and Anti-Art (2015) and Marcel Duchamp (with Neil Cox and David Hopkins, 2021). Among the exhibitions she has organised or co-organised are 'Art in Latin America' (1989); 'Fetishism: Visualising Power and Desire' (1995); 'Salvador Dalí: The Centenary Retrospective' (2004); 'Undercover Surrealism' (2006); and 'Dalí/Duchamp' (2017-18).

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