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Tacita Dean / edited by George Baker and Annie Rana ; essays and interviews by Peter Wollen [and thirteen others].

By: Baker, George.
Contributor(s): Baker, George (George Thomas), 1970- [editor.] | Rana, Annie [editor.] | Wollen, Peter [interviewer.] | Warner, Marina, 1946- [interviewer.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: October files: 30.Copyright date: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, ©2025Description: xxvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262552387 (paperback); 0262552388.Subject(s): Dean, Tacita, 1965-DDC classification: 709.2 DEA
Contents:
Foreword: Trips and accidents / Annie Rana -- Tacita Dean (1999) / Peter Wollen -- Artist questionnaire response (2002) / Tacita Dean -- The taciturn eternal return (2003) / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Photography found and lost : on Tacita Dean's FLOH (2005) / Mark Godfrey -- Marina Warner in conversation with Tacita Dean (2006) / Marina Warner -- The ABC of TCD (2007) / Mark Godfrey -- Golden hours (2007) / Brian Dillon -- Lateness and longing (2008) / George Baker -- Slow (e)motion : Tacita Dean's Art of reflection (2010) / Elisabeth Lebovici -- TACET (2011) / Douglas Crimp -- Frame by frame (2012) / Rosalind Krauss -- A conversation with Tacita Dean (2014) / George Baker -- Tacita Dean in conversation with Hal Foster (2017) / Hal Foster -- Tacita Dean : world-making (2020) / Tamara Trodd -- The Dante project (2022) / Briony Fer -- The air outside (2023) / Louise Hornby -- Swollen footage (2023) / George Baker.
Summary: "The volume traces Dean's early breakthrough works, registers the shift in her films in the mid-2000s, and confronts her recent endeavors up through the present day"- publisher's description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A highly anticipated and richly illustrated anthology of essays on the work of artist Tacita Dean.

This volume explores the deeply-influential work of Tacita Dean, recognized increasingly as one of the key artists of our times. Emerging initially as part of the generation of the so-called Young British Artists in the 1990s, Dean has reinvented the manner in which artists use analogue mediums such as drawing, photography, and film, prompting major questions in her work around the issues of time, memory, and history.

Dean's films embrace long takes that achieve a near-photographic stillness; they have been dedicated to obsolescent objects or stranded buildings, failed quests, and extraordinary figures-usually other artists and writers-nearing the end of their lives. But Dean's contemplative films have been rigorously reinvented as a form over the course of her career and linked to a widening series of projects involving writing, chalk drawings, found photographs, dance, and theater. This anthology explores the artist's expansive practice, gathering essays and interviews by authors from an array of disciplines including art criticism, philosophy, literature, and film. Spanning twenty-five years of the artist's career, the volume includes writings by George Baker, Douglas Crimp, Brian Dillon, Briony Fer, Hal Foster, Mark Godfrey, Louise Hornby, Rosalind Krauss, Elisabeth Lebovici, Jean-Luc Nancy, Tamara Trodd, Marina Warner, Peter Wollen, and the artist herself.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Trips and accidents / Annie Rana -- Tacita Dean (1999) / Peter Wollen -- Artist questionnaire response (2002) / Tacita Dean -- The taciturn eternal return (2003) / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Photography found and lost : on Tacita Dean's FLOH (2005) / Mark Godfrey -- Marina Warner in conversation with Tacita Dean (2006) / Marina Warner -- The ABC of TCD (2007) / Mark Godfrey -- Golden hours (2007) / Brian Dillon -- Lateness and longing (2008) / George Baker -- Slow (e)motion : Tacita Dean's Art of reflection (2010) / Elisabeth Lebovici -- TACET (2011) / Douglas Crimp -- Frame by frame (2012) / Rosalind Krauss -- A conversation with Tacita Dean (2014) / George Baker -- Tacita Dean in conversation with Hal Foster (2017) / Hal Foster -- Tacita Dean : world-making (2020) / Tamara Trodd -- The Dante project (2022) / Briony Fer -- The air outside (2023) / Louise Hornby -- Swollen footage (2023) / George Baker.

"The volume traces Dean's early breakthrough works, registers the shift in her films in the mid-2000s, and confronts her recent endeavors up through the present day"- publisher's description.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Series Preface (vii)
  • Acknowledgments (ix)
  • List of Contributors (xiii)
  • Foreword: Trips and Accidents (xix)
  • Tacita Dean (1999) (1)
  • Artist Questionnaire Response (2002) (11)
  • The Taciturn Eternal Return (2003) (13)
  • Photography Found and Lost: On Tacita Dean's FLOH (2005) (25)
  • Marina Warner in Conversation with Tacita Dean (2006) (57)
  • The ABC of TCD (2007) (85)
  • Golden Hours (2007) (101)
  • Lateness and Longing (excerpt) (2008) (113)
  • Slow (E)motion: Tacita Dean's Art of Reflection (2010) (137)
  • TACET (2011) (149)
  • Frame by Frame (2012) (161)
  • A Conversation with Tacita Dean (2014) (171)
  • Tacita Dean in Conversation with Hal Foster (2017) (199)
  • Tacita Dean: World-Making (2020) (211)
  • The Dante Project (2022) (239)
  • The Air Outside (2023) (257)
  • Swollen Footage (2023) (277)
  • Index of Names (293)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Annie Rana is an independent researcher based in Los Angeles. She was previously Senior Project Manager at the Getty Research Institute, where she oversaw the Getty Research Portal. She worked with Tacita Dean on the artist's edition Monet Hates Me and on a related book of the same name.