Franz West, to Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work 1972-2008

by Darsie Alexander and Franz West

There is no easy way to define Franz West's art: it is fundamentally sculptural in its construction, veers frequently toward the biomorphic and prosthetic, mines the intellectualism of Freud and Wittgenstein, and possesses an awkward beauty that speaks with equal fluency to the tradition of painterly abstraction and the aesthetics of trash art. West's distinctive vision has resulted in one of the most remarkable bodies of work produced since the 1960s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012502
• ISBN13: 9780262012508
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.6" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher