Burhan Dogançay : fifty years of urban walls
2012, First Edition. Munich stanbul : Prestel Verlag ; stanbul Museum of Modern Art. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new, still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. Item #274016
ISBN: 3791352199
Physical description; 311, [2] p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm. walls.
Summary
"Since the early 1960s, Burhan Do ançay examines the social, cultural and political transformation of modern and contemporary urban culture through the use of walls. As an urban traveller, he has been tracking walls in various cities across the world for almost half a century. With the guise of an anthropologist, Do ançay examines these surfaces that are open to all manners of contemporary interventions ranging from posters to slogans, and messages with sexual content to newspaper clippings. Do ançay's works with different techniques and styles, are positioned in both a historical and contemporary ground through their incorporation of the icons of popular culture and political symbols. Fifty Years of Urban Walls: A Burhan Do ançay Retrospective stands as an anthology for Do ançay's last 50 years of work. With works that range from small sized pieces to big canvases, and installations that run beyond the walls, to various materials and pursuits, this exhibition unrolls the background to Do ançay's ways of working. The exhibition gathers together 14 distinct series and periods of time with works coming from different collections all over the world. The accompanying catalogue presents images of works along with explanatory texts, which provide different perspectives to his ouevre while documents and photographs on Do ançay's life alludes to his urban traveller identity." Subjects; Dogançay, Burhan 1929-2013 — Exhibitions. Painting, Modern — Exhibitions.
Price: €25.00