Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews

by Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko, an avante-garde artist, is perhaps best known for the politically charged images he has projected onto buildings and monuments from New York to Warsaw - images of rockets projected onto triumphal arches, the image of handcuffed wrists projected onto a courthouse facade, images of homeless people in bandages and wheelchairs projected onto statues in a park from which they had been evicted. In projects such as the Homeless Vehicle, which he designed through discussions with homeless people, Wodiczko has helped to make public space a place where marginalized people can speak, establish their presence and assert their rights.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262731223
• ISBN13: 9780262731225
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

An excellent book on the art of Wodiczko!

"Crititical Vehicles" by Wodiczko is an excellent book to become familiar with this very exciting polish artist, now living in New York. Wodiczko is an interesting artist that crosses several catagories; sculpture, multimedia, industrial design, video, projection, performance art, and funtional devices. This book covers Wodiczko's work from the early start of his career and up to late nineties. It explaines in depht what the artist are trying to achieve, why he his doing it, and with which methodes. Wodiczko is a thinker and a well-reflected man. In this book not just will the reader have the pleasure of seeing Wodiczko's art, and the details of each project, but most of all, the reader gets to know Wodiczko's reflections and critical thoughts of our soceity today. I found his arguments refreshing, thought provoking and pleasurably challenging.