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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Michael Craig–Martin – Signs of Life
| Editor | Eckhard Schneider |
| Publisher | Kunsthaus Bregenz |
| Year | 2006 |
| Cover | Hardcover with dust jacket |
| Language | German, English |
| ISBN | 978-3-86560-085-1 |
| Pages | 128 |
| Weight | 1294 g |
| Illustrations | with 50 col. ills |
| More | |
| Contributors | Liam Gillick, Edgar Schmitz |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Kunsthaus Bregenz |
| Article ID | art-10578 |
The series "Signs of Life" concentrates on the idea of a universally comprehensive picture language made up of mundane objects like the paintbrushes, flashlights and folding chairs Craig-Martin has made into a screensaver and objects from the art world, of which he says, "To draw Piero [della Francesca] is the same thing to me as drawing a shoe." Or, as he demonstrates, as drawing a Seurat. Canvases and wall-filling paintings conjoin here into a total artwork with a strong personality.
Michael Craig-Martin, whom the BBC has called "the father of Britart" has taught at Goldsmiths College, London, since 1974. His work has been shown in the UK at the Hayward Gallery, the Whitechapel Gallery and the Tate Modern, and in the U.S. at Gagosian Gallery and The Museum of Modern Art.
