The first publication by the artist Damien Hirst, who is considered by some to be a successor to Duchamp, Warhol, and Koons. One of the most controversial artists of his time, Hirst was fundamental in reviving the art scene in London in the 1980s. The book includes paintings, sculptures, and installations of the artist's entire body of work, ...
Immediately recognised for his brilliant, sordid and uncompromising imagination, Damien Hirst is the most celebrated artist Britain has produced for generations. The undisputed leader and originator of the dominant movement in contemporary art on both sides of the Atlantic, he is now so ingrained in the public consciousness that even people with ...
Reputed to have initiated the young British art movement, Hirst is considered the pre-eminent artist of his generation. This project brings together for the first time all his works in the collection of Charles Saatchi, his most prolific and proactive patron.
"Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings "was published to coincide with the exhibition of the same title at Gagosian Gallery, New York. All works contained in the exhibition are illustrated and accompanied by excerpts from the Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, a text by novelist Gordon Burn, and an essay by ...
Published in 2006 following Damien Hirst's first major print exhibition at the Paul Stolper Gallery in London in 2005, New Religion explores Hirst's central themes: "I was thinking that there are four important things in life: religion, love, art and science... Of them all, science seems to be the right one now. Like religion, it provides the ...
This book is a creative guide to the making of arguably the most extraordinary art object to be made in the 21st century. Published to accompany the 2007 exhibition "Damien Hirst: Beyond Belief" at White Cube, it gives a fascinating pictorial insight into how Hirst's diamond skull piece "For the Love of God" was conceived and produced. ...
This comprehensive monograph was produced to accompany the drawings retrospective 'Damien Hirst: Corpus: Drawings 1981-2006' held at Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York in 2006. It features more than two hundred drawings which offer a historical insight into rarely seen aspects of the artist's work and process. Included are early drawings ...
"Not so much poems, more titles gone mad." "The Cancer Chronicles" is a collection of thirteen poems by the artist Damien Hirst. Hirst wrote the book to accompany his work "Romance in the Age of Uncertainty - Jesus & His Disciples (Death, Martyrdom, Suicide & Ascension)," (not illustrated). Each poem shares a title with the installed elements of ...
This catalogue was produced to accompany Damien Hirst's 2003 exhibition at White Cube, London. The show dissected and recast the story of Jesus and his disciples through paintings and sculptural work while revealing the uncertainty at the heart of human experience. The exhibited works included The Apostles, a series of 13 clinical steel and glass ...
This is a signed limited edition of 450. It is leather bound and comes in a specially made steel box with a biohazard symbol etched on the cover. This large-format book illustrates the complete paintings featured in Damien Hirst's recent New York exhibition 'The Elusive Truth'. The book includes full-colour reproductions on hand-tipped in plates, ...
Other Criteria presents the book produced for Damien Hirst's first show in Mexico, 'The Death of God - Towards a Better Understanding of a Life Without God Aboard the Ship of Fools'. Containing 69 full colour reproductions of all the works in the show, the catalogue also includes an interview with the gallery owner, Hilario Galguera, on the nature ...
Published to accompany Damien Hirst's exhibition of butterfly paintings at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles in February 2007, "Superstition" is a visually stunning book that confirms Hirst's reputation as one of the most significant visual thinkers of his generation. Using 'High Windows', the last published volume of poems by Philip Larkin, as a ...
"Beyond Belief" includes over 70 exquisite full colour plates and an essay by novelist and writer Will Self that discusses hallmark works such as 'A Thousand Years' (1990), and Hirst's practice and ascendance to international fame through the late 1990s. Accompanying Self 's insightful and engaging text is an in-depth interview between Hirst and ...
This catalogue illustrates the complete paintings featured in Damien Hirst's recent New York exhibition 'The Elusive Truth'. Extended captions written by the artist accompany many of the paintings. Damien Hirst's art takes on numerous forms. He tackles the big subjects of love, desire, life and death, and creates unavoidable sculptures and ...
Sex today seems too much like hard work. Magazines tell us we have to put more effort in and learn new tips. So how can we bring the playfulness back? This issue of the "Idler" features an exclusive cover from Damien Hirst and an interview with Esther Perel, author of the best-seller "Mating in Captivity". Michael Bywater condemns the rise of ...
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London in November 2006, " In the darkest hour there may be light" provides a revealing and concise overview of Damien Hirst's murderme collection to date. As Julia Peyton-Jones puts it in the Director's Foreword to this beautifully produced catalogue, "Damien Hirst's groundbreaking ...
The first publication by the artist Damien Hirst, who is considered by some to be a successor to Duchamp, Warhol, and Koons. One of the most controversial artists of his time, Hirst was fundamental in reviving the art scene in London in the 1980s. The book includes paintings, sculptures, and installations of the artist's entire body of work, ...
This comprehensive monograph was produced to accompany the drawings retrospective 'Damien Hirst: Corpus: Drawings 1981-2006' held at Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York in 2006. It features more than two hundred drawings which offer a historical insight into rarely seen aspects of the artist's work and process. Included are early drawings ...
"From the Cradle to the Grave" presents a key selection of drawings and sketches produced by the famed English artist and provocateur Damien Hirst over the past 15 years. For Hirst, drawing is a way of maintaining the flow of imagination, and he does it constantly. Ranging from raw, impulsive sketches to detailed and well-thought-out drawings, ...
This details all the previously unseen skull paintings in the Requiem exhibition at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, in April 2009. The book features a series of over 40 works, created between 2006 and 2008. Painting is a totally different way of working, but Hirst as an artist always remains himself. We are witnesses of an artistic balancing act ...
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