Mark Dion Book order (chronological)

"Dion’s current project, Concerning Hunting, examines hunting as a traditional, but controversial, cultural practice. One of the fascinating things about hunting is its fundamental contradictoriness: the sensitivity of the hunter and his profound knowledge about what nature requires are also expressed through the act of killing animals. Dion’s artistic examinations do not focus on nature as such, but rather on the hunt as a way culture deals with it"--

Georg Kargl founded the respected Galerie Metropol in Vienna in 1978, and in 1998 he opened Kargl Fine Arts, now called BOX. This history of Kargl's visionary take on contemporary art over the years includes John Baldessari, Dan Flavin, Christopher Williams, Collier Schorr, Raymond Pettibon and John Waters to name just a few.

This unusual book presents the world of excavations as art and theatre. The majority of this slim volume presents images from Mark Dion's Tate Thames Dig on the Thames foreshore in 1999 accompanied by texts by archaeologists and artists, notably Colin Renfrew, Jonathan Cotton and Robert Williams, on the merit of science as art and Thames finds, among other subjects.

The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by the vast uncultivated spaces of the desert and mountain as well as post-industrial wastelands, artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt or Robert Smithson moved earth to create colossal primal symbols. Others punctuated the horizon with man-made signposts, such as Christo's Running Fence or Walter de Maria's Lightning Field. Journeys became works of art for Richard Long whilst Dennis Oppenheim and Ana Mendieta immersed their bodies in the contours of the land.

Die von Reiner Speck und Gerhard Theewen herausgegebene édition séparée bietet ausgewählten Künstlern die Möglichkeit, authentische Beiträge in der Tradition des Künstlerbuches zu realisieren. Die Textbeiträge stammen entweder vom Künstler selbst oder von Autoren, die er selbst bestimmt und die den Künstlerbeitrag begleiten und ergänzen, sich aber nicht interpretierend einmischen. Die bisher entstandenen Ausgaben präsentieren Originalbeiträge aus den Bereichen Fotografie, Zeichnung, Theorie, Typographie und elektronischer Bildbearbeitung.