Ben Vautier
Subtitle: is everything art?
By: Museum Tinguely, Basel ; texts: Bernard Blistène [and 16 others] ; translations, Alexandra Cox
Contributors: Blistène, Bernard, contributor; Cox, Alexandra, translator; Museum Jean Tinguely Basel
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9783868286496
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Exhibitions; French Art
Other titles: Is everything art?
Notes: Exhibition catalog.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Museum Tinguely, Basel, October 21, 2015 - January 22, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-313).

In English, includes some text in French with parallel translation in English.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Roland Wetzel; title: Ben's text art in context  -- Margriet Schavemaker; title: Ben : Le magasin  -- Andres Pardey; title: Assessing the situation  -- Ben Vautier -- Pour et contre.; title: Ben Vautier :; title: Spit  -- Jon Hendricks ;; title: The two Ben(s)  -- Michel Onfray ;; title: The great ego game  -- Bernard Blistène ;; title: I assure you that I wanted to laugh  -- Philippe Vergne ;; title: The brave Ben  -- Pierre Restany ;; title: Ben exists :; title: epic poem  -- José Pierre ;; title: Ben and deconstruction :; title: an interview with Ben Vautier  -- Daniela Palazzoli ;; title: Whevever you see art, think of Ben  -- Ad Petersen ;; title: The most unforgettable character I ever met  -- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio ;; title: Ben Vautier  -- Giancarlo Politi ;; title: Ben :; title: truth will change art  -- Catherine Millet ;; title: The cheats of dada and lettrism  -- Isidore Isou; title: Work :; title: Recherche des formes/Bananes ;; title: Vieilles écritures ;; title: Le magasin ;; title: Les gestes ;; title: Art total and fluxus ;; title: Les appropriations ;; title: History and theory of art ;; title: Introspection  -- Alice Wilke; title: Themes :; title: Death, 1956-2015 ;; title: The photos, 1956-2015 ;; title: The writings, 1958-2015 ;; title: The signature, 1958-2015 ;; title: Hanging objects, 1958-2015 ;; title: The crates, 1960-2015 ;; title: Exercises concerning ego, 1960-2015 ;; title: Time, 1961-2015 ;; title: The mirrors, 1962-2015 ;; title: Disguises, 1963-2015 ;; title: Peoples and ethnic groups, 1970-2015 ;; title: Small ideas, 1975 ;; title: Stupid ideas, 1975 ;; title: The house, 1976-2015 ;; title: Sex maniac Ben, 1979-2015 ;; title: The portraits, 1980-2015 ;; title: Free figuration, 1980-2015 ;; title: In art, it is courage that counts, 1987-2015 ;; title: The totems, 1988-2015 ;; title: The poor collector, 1989-2015 ;; title: Another object that fancies itself as art, 1990-2015 ;; title: The details that interest me, 1991-2015 ;; title: The birds, 1991-2015 ;; title: Disinformation and manipulation, 1992-2015 ;; title: Chaos and coincidence, 1994-2015 ;; title: New writings, 1994-2015 ;; title: The ceramics, 1995-2015 ;; title: Matter and transformation, 1983-2015 ;; title: Ben on the Internet, 1996-2015 ;; title: The freedom to..., 2012-2015 ;; title: Mont Chauve, 2013-2015 ;; title: Homage to Tinguely, 2015 ;; title: Global center of questioning, 2015 -- Ben Vautier.