Title: Gavin Turk (b1967) By Gavin Turk, Oversize Edition of Works, 400 Pages, 1st Edition, 2013, SOLD OUT.
Description: Gavin Turk (b1967) By Gavin Turk, Oversize Edition of Works, 400 pages, 1st Edition, 2013, SOLD OUT.
Assembled under the artist’s direction, this first major book on the work of Gavin Turk showcases more than two decades of extraordinary sculptures, paintings, prints, and installation pieces with over two hundred colour photos
Turk, a British concept artist considered to be one of the Young British Artists, his work examines issues of authenticity and identity within modernist and avant-garde contexts.
The Brit artists Gavin Turk, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sara Lucas, David Shrigley and Jake and Dino Chapman break through the traditional confines and aged perceptions of one dimensional art with their Brit brand of conceptual 3D dimensional sculpture, diorama, life, concept, visual and confessional art.
Gavin Turk has created pioneering works of contemporary art using materials such as painted bronze, wax, and garbage. This extensive body of work, which purports to question the value and integrity of a hermetic artistic identity.
His installations, sculptures, and images refer to issues of authorship, authenticity, and identity and toy with the art-historical establishment. 
DESCRIPTION – Hardback Edition. Unknown Limited edition run of copies. Size 350 x 260 x 40 mm. Black and gold foiled hardback cover in a black, gold foiled slipcase. Thread Sewn, 256 pp text and photo images. Numbered and stamped from a run of 1000 books. Hard board Black Outer Sleeve.
Featuring numerous and over 150 colour illustrations, the volume includes Turk’s major projects since the early 1990s as well as three texts. One of these, an original essay by Iain Sinclair, contextualizes the artist’s work under the umbrella of psychogeography, including the impact of London on Turk’s persona.
Book Title: By Gavin Turk
Type: Hardback with dustcover, Thread Sewn with white Edge and binding. Hardback Book in Black and white text, photos throughout in Colour and black and white (in original polythene wrap).
Special Attributes: 1st Edition first pressing unopened
Limited Edition: From an unknown Number 
Binding: Hard Cover with Solid Back, thread bound
Date of Publication: 2013
Artist: Gavin Turk
Size: Item Size 350 x 260 x 40 mm.
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Author: Judith Collins
Publisher: Prestel
Condition: Both Book and sale Sleeve, Book and Book Cover In Excellent as New condition, Stored in original shipping crate and in the original transparent sale sleeve, never opened, never read.      
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Condition: New
Delivery option: Delivery
Location: NG3
Category: Art