John Wood and Paul Harrison : answers to questions.
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| Author / Creator: | Wood, John, 1969- |
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| Imprint: | Houston : Contemporary Art Museum Houston, [2011] |
| Description: | 215 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8393297 |
| Summary: | John Wood (born 1969) and Paul Harrison (born 1966) fuse their aesthetic research with existential slapstick comedy. Working together since 1993, the British duo use a wide variety of props, including furniture, household utensils and their own bodies, setting up comical interactions with objects that they record in austere video works. Describing themselves as performance artists and sculptors whose audience is the video camera, Wood and Harrison are heirs to silent film comics Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and to uniquely British comedy troupes like Monty Python. Through their efforts, no matter how absurd, Sisyphean or masochistic, Wood and Harrison reveal the potential for inventive play in all scenarios. Grounded in the joys and pratfalls of the everyday, Wood and Harrison's blend of high and low, philosophical and funny, captures both a sense of wonder and the thrill of genuine experimentation. |
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| Item Description: | Catalog of an exhibition held Feb., 17-May 16, 2010 at University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Feb. 12-Apr. 24, 2011 at Contemporary Aats Museum Houston; June 10-Sept. 24, 2001 at H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute; Feb. 2-May 6, 2012 at Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. |
| Physical Description: | 215 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781933619316 1933619317 |