Parallel Presents: The Art of Pierre Huyghe

by Amelia Barikin

Book Overview

The first book-length art historical examination of a major contemporary French artist.

Over the past two decades, French artist Pierre Huyghe has produced an extraordinary body of work in constant dialogue with temporality. Investigating the possibility of a hypothetical mode of timekeeping--"parallel presents"--Huyghe has researched the architecture of the incomplete, directed a puppet opera, founded a temporary school, established...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026252838X
• ISBN13: 9780262528382
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher