Werner Büttner: My Looting Eye

Book Overview

While the artist uses collages as the starting point for his paintings, the former are not only preparatory studies but a strategy that enables juxtaposing realities and unexpected associations, which are major characteristics of his extensive oeuvre. In this combination of the everyday and the commonplace, a sceptical perspective becomes manifest as a critical method. With cutting wit, B ttner breaks the spell of daily social events and renders their values relative and benign.

This lavishly-produced book presents newly commissioned texts as well as key essays relating to B ttner's practice, and--taken with its sister volume concerning his painting, Coincidence in Splendour, are the first substantial books on B ttner in English.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910433837
• ISBN13: 9781910433836
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Black Dog Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.5" x 12.8"