Return to Function surveys contemporary artists who make functional objects that verge on "the designed"--from vehicles to clothes to mobile studio units--which happily confirm that the once-firm line between fine art and the applied arts is indeed dissolving. These artists--Jules De Balincourt, Claire Fontaine, François Curlet, Fabrice Hyber, J. Morgan Puett, Michael Rakowitz, Joe Scanlan, Franck Scurti, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga and others--make objects that are simultaneously critical and practical. By choosing to create objects that meet utilitarian criteria, they show that artworks can be a part of the larger social, political and economic fabric. This volume features an in-depth discussion of seminal artists working in this vein, including Lucy Orta, Andrea Zittel and Jorge Pardo.

Return to Function

Arts & Photography

Fleischman, Stephen

Simon, Jane

BARAK, AMI

Schwendener, Martha

History & Criticism

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

THE SOOTHSAYER BY / LE DEVIN PAR MOUNA REBEIZ

Boyer, Guy

Godart, Elsa

DE LOISY, JEAN

IN FINE

<p>Along with Heimo Zobernig and Erwin Wurm, Austrian artist Peter Kogler refreshed conceptual and media-based art in the mid-1980s. He has had a huge influence on the international art scene. This comprehensive monograph presents previously unpublished early works alongside installation shots of recent exhibitions.</p>

Peter Kogler

Fuchs, Rainer

Individual Artists

Walther König, Köln

<p>Arantxa Etcheverria's (b. 1975, France; lives and works in Bucharest) creative practice encompasses painting, sculpture, performance, photography, and film. Since 2006, she has been especially interested in modernist architecture, a ubiquitous sight in her adopted country, Romania. Blending rationalism with speculation, the artist draws on historical references including post-Communist turbo architecture, Op art, and minimalism for works that balance between figuration and abstraction, construction and deconstruction. This book documents Etcheverria's more recent panel paintings and installations, seen in interaction with actors in monochrome costumes. With essays by the Paris-based Romanian curator and critic Ami Barak and the art historian and curator Alina Serban.</p>

Arantxa Etcheverria: Doors

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