Charles Esche and David Batchelor
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ISBN 1 84166 026 4
PRICE £12.00
Since they began collaborating in 1993, John Wood and Paul Harrison have accumulated a series of playful and beguiling video works which are distinguished as much by their droll humour as their unerring economy of execution. Played out against a minimalist, monochrome backdrop, or within the sealed-off space of the monitor itself, each of the works involves the presence of one or other of the artists, either as the butt of an extended sight-gag or as the trigger for a spiralling, visually surprising conceit.
Minigraphs is a series of publications developed by Film and Video Umbrella devoted to contemporary artists working with film and video. Fully illustrated, and with specially commissioned essays and an extensive lists of works, this series provides an attractive and indispensable introduction to some of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists.
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Bernadette Buckley, Doreen Massey and Steven Bode
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ISBN 1 90427 010 7
PRICE £10.00
An English Journey is a combined book and DVD project by the artist Andrew Cross. Published to coincide with his new video and photographic exhibition 3 hours from here it casts a typically adroit and observant eye over the changing face of the English landscape and road transport network. Following the route (from Southampton to the North West of England) followed by J.B. Priestley in his original 1930s English Journey, it closes in on that increasingly ubiquitous mainstay of the contemporary English road, the long-distance container lorry.
Featuring essays by the renowned social historian and geographer Doreen Massey, and by project curators Steven Bode and Bernadette Buckley, this beautifully designed small-format publication also incorporates extracts from Priestley's original text. The accompanying DVD includes a special interactive and extended version of Cross's video record of the journey, 3 hours from here.
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Sally O'Reilly, Vincent Deary and Marion Coutts in conversation with Katherine Wood. Introduced by Steven Bode
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ISBN 1 90427 006 9
PRICE £9.95
Over the last few years, Marion Coutts has emerged as one of the most engaging and inventive voices on the British contemporary art scene, attracting increasing attention for a highly original body of work whose subtle use of the moving image is allied to a wider object-based aesthetic. Produced to accompany a recent survey exhibition of her work, and pivoting around a new video installation, 'Everglade', this substantial monographic publication captures the distinctiveness, and the diversity, of Coutts' practice.
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Will Bradley, Polly Staple, Chris Darke and Jeremy Millar. Introduced by Steven Bode
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ISBN 0 95386 347 6
PRICE £9.95
'Plans and Spells' places this recent work within the context of Adam Chodzko's highly individual artistic oeuvre. Richly illustrated with colour plates throughout, and featuring four newly commissioned texts which range widely across Chodzko's career, this publication presents an illuminating portrait of one of the most singular and distinctive bodies of work in contemporary British art.
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Steven Bode and Michael Glasmeier. Interview by Ele Carpenter
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ISBN 0 9538634 5 x
PRICE £11.95
'It Could Happen to You' is the first English-language publication dedicated to the work of Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Dolven and catalogues five film and video 'portraits' produced between 2000 and 2001. While alluding to paintings by the Norwegian master Edvard Munch, Dolven also adds recognisably contemporary elements to her treatment of landscape and still life. This compact and elegant hardback publication is illustrated in colour throughout with a selection of documentation shots, details from the works and production stills. It was produced to accompany the staging of Dolven's film 'It Could Happen to You' at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in June and July 2001.
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