Mona Hatoum
By: edited by Christine van Assche with Clarrie Wallis
Contributors: Centre Georges Pompidou; Tate Modern (Gallery); Nykytaiteen museo (Helsinki, Finland)
Edition: English edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781849763608
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions
Description: Born in Beirut to a Palestinian family, artist Mona Hatoum came to Britain as a student in the mid-1970s, settling in London in 1975. Her art - whether video, performance, sculpture or installation - is concerned with confrontational themes including violence, oppression and voyeurism, often in reference to the human body; and with the juxtaposition of opposites such as beauty and horror, desire and revulsion. With 250 colour images covering the whole of Hatoum's ouevre, this is the essential book on a distinctly powerful voice in contemporary art.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Mona Hatoum organised by the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, in collaboration with Tate Modern and the Finnish National Gallery / Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 24 June-28 September 2015; Tate Modern, London, 4 May-21 August 2016; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 7 October 2016-26 February 2017.

"First published in French by Editions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2015"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: Forewords / -- Frances Morris, -- Serge Lasvignes and Bernard Blistène, -- Leevi Haapala -- Introduction / -- Clarrie Wallis; title: 'Mapping' an oeuvre  -- Christine Van Assche; title: Between spectator and artist: modes of interaction  -- Guy Brett; title: Disbelongings  -- Patricia Falguières; title: The art of displacement of Mona Hatoum's logic of irreconcilables  -- Edward W. Said; title: Mona Hatoum and the paradoxical map of the Mediterranean myth  -- Bertrand Westphal; title: Materials and making  -- Clarrie Wallis; title: Touching the other: a story of corpo-electronic surfaces  -- Christine Ross; title: Boundary crossings: the political postminimalism of Mona Hatoum -- Marja Sakari.