ARTIST MONOGRAPHS

Vanessa Beecroft

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGS

Vanessa Beecroft: VB53
CHARTA/FONDAZIONE PITTI IMMAGINE DISCOVERY

Paperback, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 84 pgs / 40 color / 10 bw. | 2/15/2005 | Not available
$27.95



Vanessa Beecroft: Photographs, Films, Drawings
HATJE CANTZ

Hardcover, 7 x 9.75 in. / 224 pgs / 117 color. | 6/15/2004 | Not available
$40.00



Vanessa Beecroft: Performances
HATJE CANTZ

Hardcover, 7 x 10 in. / 152 pgs / 200 color | 10/2/2000 | Not available
$39.95



Vanessa Beecroft: VB53Vanessa Beecroft: VB53

Published by Charta/Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery.
Edited by Maria Luisa Frisa. Essay by Francesco Bonami.

VB 53 provides documentation of Vanessa Beecroft's most recent performance at Pitti Immagine Uomo 66 in Florence's Horticultural Garden. 21 models of varying appearance and race were planted in a mass of earth in the tepidarium. All were nude except for a single accessory: Helmut Lang shoes that wrapped around their ankles, separating their bare legs from the bare, rough earth. According to Beecroft, “The sole is reference to land art. Very dark and humid, like the rich foam of cultivated fields... The performance juxtaposes the purity of the female body, their nudity, with the dirty color of the soil and its material. Some models look like lillies, others like potatoes. Lilies and potatoes can also grow in filth.” The 50 images in this book illuminate Beecroft's signature issues: the body, beauty and identity.

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Charta/Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery

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Paperback, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 84 pgs / 40 color / 10 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 118   

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Vanessa Beecroft: Photographs, Films, DrawingsVanessa Beecroft: Photographs, Films, Drawings

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Essay by Thomas Kellein.

Vanessa Beecroft's performances have been described as art, fashion, brilliant, terrible, evocative, provocative, disturbing, sexist and empowering. The primary material in her work is the live female figure, which remains ephemeral and separate. These women, mainly unclothed, similar, unified through details like hair color, or identical shoes, stand motionless, unapproachable and regimented in the space while viewers watch them. Neither performance nor documentary, Beecroft's live events are recorded through photography and film, but her conceptual approach is actually closer to painting: she makes contemporary versions of the complex figurative compositions that have challenged painters from the Renaissance onwards. Beecroft's more recent work has a slightly more theatrical approach--the uniforms are period clothing, not nudity, and some of her performances include food, while others have featured men in military attire. The artist's provocative tabeaux are accompanied here by the drawings and backstage Polaroids she uses in planning her often-disturbing performances. Includes an extensive interview with Beecroft, which touches on topics informing her work, including men, anorexia, exercise, family, film and beauty.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 7 x 9.75 in. / 224 pgs / 117 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 146   

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STATUS: Out of print | 11/28/2010

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Vanessa Beecroft: PerformancesVanessa Beecroft: Performances

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Artwork by Vanessa Beecroft.



PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7 x 10 in. / 152 pgs / 200 color

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Out of print

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Catalog: SPRING 1999

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ISBN 9783893229642 TRADE
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STATUS: Out of print | 6/1/2005

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