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Michael Archer Book order






- 2023
- 2022
Keith Tyson: Iterations and Variations
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
This comprehensive survey delves into the extensive thirty-year career of artist Keith Tyson, showcasing his innovative works and artistic evolution. It highlights his unique approach to art, blending science, philosophy, and personal experience. The book features a rich collection of images and critical essays that explore the themes and concepts central to Tyson's practice, providing insight into his impact on contemporary art.
- 2015
Pavel Buchler
- 126 pages
- 5 hours of reading
"Büchler's exhibition at Ikon involves a wide range of media including text, found objects, obsolete technologies and appropriated digital material, characteristically combining philosophical scepticism with a smart sense of humour that draws attention to the fundamentally strange nature of everyday life."--Ikon Gallery website (viewed November 2015).
- 2011
Jeff Koons
- 105 pages
- 4 hours of reading
"In Jeff Koons's One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985), a Spalding basketball floats in the centre of a glass tank that rests on a simple black metal stand. The work presents what Koons called 'the penultimate state of being' - neither death nor life, but a suspended state of rest. It has been called one of the defining works of the 1980s, but was also described as 'an endgame', 'misleading' and part of a 'repulsive' practice"--Jacket
- 2010
A Patch of Ground
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
A poignant, often humorous, recollection of the siege of Khe Sanh--a pivotal turning point in the American war in Vietnam. Under constant bombardment from the enemy, Michael Archer and his cadre of young Marines--Orr, Pig, Old Woman and Savage, just to name a few--managed to survive and, in the process, learn about manhood, sacrifice and the darkest recesses of fear and loneliness.
- 2008
Published to accompany the exhibition held at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 24 September-16 November 2008; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, 23 May-20 July 2009; Artsonje, Seoul, South Korea, 12 November 2009-12 February 2010.
- 2008
Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Miroslaw nothere' at White Cube, London, 9 Dec. 2008-7 Feb. 2009.
- 2007
Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies
- 190 pages
- 7 hours of reading
A Highly Visual Guide To Developing A Personal Forex Trading Strategy Getting Started In Forex Trading Strategies A great next step to read for the beginning trader. It contains practical advice and resources on trading FOREX that only come with experience.
- 2005
Bethan Huws
- 80 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Documents Huws' seminal performance of "Singing to the Sea", which took place in 1993 on a beach near Alnwick in Northumberland. This work includes an interview with the artist.
- 1997
An exploration of the artist's powerful evocations of statelessness, otherness and denial.