Michael Landy H2NY Author:Barry Schwabsky, Calvin Tomkins In 1960, Dadaist artist Jean Tinguely took three weeks to build a self-destroying — machine, Homage to New York, and it combusted in 27 — minutes in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art as a star-studded — audience looked on. Forty-seven years later, British artist Michael Landy — has created an homage to Tinguely's Homage. Using photos, films and... more »
remains of Tinguely's original work, Landy produced these 40 whimsical,
detailed studies on paper for the re-enactment of the self-destructing
machine's performance, reproduced in this crisp, black-and-white book,
which also includes press accounts of the 1960 event. Art that selfdestructs
for a throw-away age. Produced by Alexander and Bonin
gallery in New York and Thomas Dane gallery in London.« less