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XXL Art By Elea Baucheron

XXL Art by Elea Baucheron


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From countryside to desert, city streets to museum and gallery spaces, the sixty oversize artworks featured in this volume present the dazzling variety of large-scale art throughout the world.

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XXL Art: When Artists Think Big by Elea Baucheron

When artists think big, big things happen. In Chicago's Millennium Park, thousands of visitors flock daily to Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate to see their wondrously distorted reflections. Christo's The Gates mesmerized the citizens of New York City with its bright orange fabric draped throughout Central Park. In Prague, artist David Cerny's Gesture either infuriated or delighted its many viewers during the city's recent elections, while Stuart Murdoch's Pimms Deckchair brilliantly celebrated the traditional English seaside. Political or whimsical, permanent or fleeting, magical or disturbing - each of these monumental works surprises the viewer by its sheer scale. Captured in double-page spreads with brief introductions, these works are organized by location: outdoors, in the streets, indoor, and museum installations. From Niki de Saint-Phalle's magical Tarot Garden to Robert Smithson's intermittently visible Spiral Jetty; from Daniel Firman's enormous stuffed elephant displayed at the Fontainebleau Palace to Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth, an enormous fissure she built in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall - each of the works featured in this unique book reminds viewers of the immense power of art.

XXL Art Reviews

""XXL Art: When Artists Think Big" shares stunning visuals and texts on almost 50 artists whose work embraces the adage 'Go big or go home'. . . All tackle size and scale across countrysides and cityscapes with spectacular, boundary pushing results."

"Public Art Review""


-XXL Art: When Artists Think Big shares stunning visuals and texts on almost 50 artists whose work embraces the adage 'Go big or go home'. . . All tackle size and scale across countrysides and cityscapes with spectacular, boundary pushing results.-

--Public Art Review


"XXL Art: When Artists Think Big shares stunning visuals and texts on almost 50 artists whose work embraces the adage 'Go big or go home'. . . All tackle size and scale across countrysides and cityscapes with spectacular, boundary pushing results."

--Public Art Review

About Elea Baucheron

Elea Baucheron is an art historian who works as a researcher and writer in Paris. Her books include The Museum of Mysteries and The Museum of Scandals (both by Prestel). Celine Delavaux is the author of The Impossible Museum: The Best Art You'll Never See and The Museum of Illusions (both by Prestel). She lives in Paris.

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GOR013884293
9783791349824
3791349821
XXL Art: When Artists Think Big by Elea Baucheron
Used - Good
Hardback
Prestel
2014-08-12
176
N/A
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