All together now: crowd scenes in contemporary art
Discusses representations of crowds in contemporary art. The author notes that crowds in art often signify political turbulence, comments on the representation of the crowd in works by artists such as Andreas Gursky, Glenn Ligon, Vanessa Beecroft, and Paul Pfeiffer, and traces a recent exhibition hi...
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| Published in: | Artforum international 2005-01, Vol.43 (5), p.166-171 |
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| Format: | Magazinearticle |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Discusses representations of crowds in contemporary art. The author notes that crowds in art often signify political turbulence, comments on the representation of the crowd in works by artists such as Andreas Gursky, Glenn Ligon, Vanessa Beecroft, and Paul Pfeiffer, and traces a recent exhibition history of the crowd in art including exhibitions such as Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Monet to Today at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. She considers the representation of the crowd in works by Stephen Dean, Julie Henry, Jeremy Deller, Fabian Maraccio, Andrea Bowers, Karen Kilimnik, Elizabeth Peyton, Jonathan Horowitz, Banks Violette, Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe, Liam Gillick, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Aeronaut Mik, Gleen Ligon, Sam Durant, Leah Elsey, Sonia Uddin, Olaf Breuning, Thomas Struth, and Alfred Leslie, and situates these works in the context of theories of the crowd by writers such as Guy Debord. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-7058 |