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Tell them I said no

by Martin Herbert

This collection of essays examines artists who have withdrawn from the professionalised art world or resisted its mechanisms. It explores retreat as a conceptual or political act through profiles of figures such as Agnes Martin, David Hammons, and Cady Noland.

Accession 16838 ISBN 9783956792007 Publisher Sternberg Press
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