Franz West: White Elephant

by Michel BlancsubE, Patrick Charpenel, Franz West, et al.

Since the mid-1960s, Franz West (born 1947) has been finding new ways to balance his art on the line between beauty and ugliness. At the age of 14, West--living in bombed-out, post-Nazi Vienna--attended an event organized by the Viennese Actionists, at which Hermann Nitsch smashed a lamb cadaver against the wall of a basement room in a tenement building: "it was incredibly shocking and really depressing," West said. His own art over the past four...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8492480807
• ISBN13: 9788492480807
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Rm
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 11.6"