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Elmgreen and Dragset

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Elmgreen & Dragset's constructed environments have been celebrated all over the world for their mischievous, cerebral, and accessible nature. This is the first comprehensive presentation of the duo's work, from their early performative pieces in the late 1990s to their most recent public projects.

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Drawing from disciplines as divergent as institutional critique, social politics, performance, design, and architecture, Elmgreen & Dragset's work reconfigures the familiar with characteristic and subversive wit. Their sculptures and installations, also known as 'Powerless Structures', have redefined what it means to experience art - the cover features their work Van Gogh's Ear, a sculpture in the form of a swimming pool, which is located on Fifth Avenue in New York at the entrance to the Rockefeller Center.

This book includes all of their most significant projects, from the transformation of New York's Bohen Foundation into a subway station in 2004, to the siting of a fake Prada boutique in the Texan desert in 2005, and the installation of the statue of a child on a rocking horse on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2012.

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Contributors: Martin Herbert, Linda Yablonsky, Cornelia H. Butler
Publisher: Phaidon
Publication date: 2019
Softcover
160 pages
10 x 11.45 inches
ISBN: 9780714875712

Elmgreen & Dragset, Martin Herbert, Kate Sutton, and Another Name. The cover has an Elmgreen & Dragset work in Rockefeller Plaza on the cover.
The book is open to two pages and has a photograph of the artists creating a work across both pages.
The book is open to two pages with images of an indoor pool on both pages. There is black text underneath both.
The book is open to two pages and has installation photos of Elmgreen & Dragset works in public spaces on both.
Elmgreen & Dragset, Martin Herbert, Kate Sutton, and Another Name. The cover has an Elmgreen & Dragset work in Rockefeller Plaza on the cover.

Elmgreen & Dragset

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are based in Berlin and have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Elmgreen & Dragset pursue questions of identity and belonging and investigate social, cultural, and political structures in their artistic practice.

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