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Michael Landy. Semi-detached

Judith Nesbitt, John Slyce
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Since the early 1990s Michael Landy has built a reputation as one of the most exciting and challenging artists working in Britain. Until Semi-detached, he was best known for Break Down 2001, in which he systematically and publicly destroyed all of his possessions. Created at Tate Britain, Semi-detached is a life-sized replica of Landy’s family home in Essex, inspired by the artist’s father, a former tunnel miner who was injured in an industrial accident in 1977 and has never been able to return to work. Photographs of this piece are complemented by essays written by Judith Nesbitt and John Slyce that examine the relationship between Semi-detached and Landy’s practice to date, particularly his other major site-specific projects.

Michael Landy (b. 1963) is one of the most exciting and challenging artists to have emerged at the beginning of the 1990s. Landy is best known for his work “Break Down (2001), during which he created a meticulous inventory of his possessions before systematically destroying them in the window of an empty London department store. The book records Landy’s first major installation since “Break Down, to be on view at Tate Britain, London. Chronicling the work through descriptive text and installation photography, this is the first publication devoted to the artist and offers new insight into his career.
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AuthorJudith Nesbitt, John Slyce
Number of pages80
PublisherTate Publishing
Year Published2004
Binding Type

French flaps, Softcover
Book Condition

Near Fine

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