Title: Francesc Torres
Description: "Barcelona-born, New York-based artist Francesc Torres (born 1948), a pioneer of installation art, is one of the most important European artists of his generation. In What Does History Know of Nail-Biting, which borrows its subtitle from Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the artist explores a body of work made by Harry Randall, a photographer and filmmaker who was one of 3,500 Americans who joined the International Brigades to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Many of the so-called Abraham Lincoln Brigade did not make it home, but Randall did. Forty-five minutes of 16mm film, shot by Randall between 1937 and 1938, becomes the material for Torres' new limited-edition artist's book, which explores what history looks like outside of concrete historical events, trying to capture the fragmentation and confusion that silently seeps through the official narratives of history"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Installations (art), Art, spanish, Exhibitions, History in art, History, Art and the war, Artists' books, Art and war, Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) fast (OCoLC)fst01352321 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01352321