Francis Alÿs: Revised & Expanded Edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

by Cuauhtémoc Medina (Author), Cuauhtémoc Medina (Author), Russell Ferguson (Author), Jean Fisher (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2019

  $42.13

  A fully updated edition of the artist's first comprehensive monograph, more than a decade since its original publication

  Francis Alys examines the patterns of various urban sites before weaving his own fables into their tangled social fabric with wit, sensitivity, and an acutely personal connection to his subject matter. A scene as such as a Volkswagen Beetle struggling up a hill or a man pushing a block of ice can carry a message that resonates far beyond the work's simple parameters. As Alys puts it, 'Sometimes doing something poetic can become political, and sometimes doing something political can become poetic.'