Gillian Wearing
By: [text by Doris Krystof ... et al.].
Contributors: Krystof, Doris; Whitechapel Art Gallery; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany); Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, Germany)
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery; Ridinghouse; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Distributed in the US by RAM Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; Düsseldorf, Germany; Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781905464524
Subjects: British Art; Photography; Modern Art; Exhibitions
Description: "British conceptual artist Gillian Wearing won the Turner Prize in 1997 while still in her mid 30. This comprehensive, copiously illustrated exhibition catalog documents the first major retrospective of her video and photography based works. One of the young British artists, Wearing is represented in important collections ranging from the Tate Modern to the Guggenheim and the Hammer Museum. The key to unlocking the work of Gillian Wearing is found not in art history but in reality television, writes Ben Luke in the London Evening Standard. Not so much the tabloid fodder of the 21st century but the tough stuff from the Sixties and Seventies. Always at the grittier end of the Young British Artists spectrum, she is in essence a documentary film maker and photographer, her work weaving around the line that documentary treads between fact and fiction." --Publisher description.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 28th Mar.-17th June 2012, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dèusseldorf, 8th Sept. 2012-6th Jan. 2013, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 1st Mar.-9th June 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-227).
Table of contents: title: Foreward; title: Call Gillian : masks, identity and performativity / Doris Krystof; title: Frontstage/backstage : dramaturrgic dissonance in the work of Gillian Wearing / Daniel F. Herrmann; title: Invasive liberation : Gillian Wearings's photographic work / Bernhart Schwenk; title: Now you see me ... : Gillian Wearing's Self made / David Deamer; title: Frontstage : works 1992-2012; title: Backstage : archival images; title: List of works; title: Biography.