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TITLE: GAIL HASTINGS
AUTHOR: RENATE WIEHAGER (TEXT IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN)
DESCRIPTION: YELLOW CARD COVER, 96 PAGES, COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
THE TEXT BY RENATE WIEHAGER ENTITLED ‘CLOSE YOUR EYES, LET YOUR HAND FALL AND SELECT AN OBJECT’ DISCUSSES GAIL HASTINGS’ ART UNDER HEADINGS THAT INCLUDE: ‘TO MAKE A WORK OF THOUGHTFUL ART’; ‘ENCYCLOPAEDIAS, INSTRUCTIONS FOR ACTION AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE’; ‘DIFFICULT ART DECISIONS’; ‘CONFORMITY TO RULES AND CLARITY VERSUS EMOTIONALLY HOVERING MEANING’; ‘TIME AS PLASTIC MATERIAL IN THE SCULPTURAL SITUATIONS AND THE UNDOING OF GENRE BOUNDARIES’; AND ‘FREEDOM FROM DOGMA AND THE ONE-SIDEDNESS OF MODERNISM'.
ILLUSTRATED WORKS INCLUDE:
‘TO MAKE A WORK OF THOUGHTFUL ART’ (1995); ‘A SILENT CORNER’ (1997); ‘TWO CORNERS AND A CUBE’ (1997) EXHIBITION VIEW; ‘DIFFICULT ART DECISIONS’ (1997); ‘TO COMPLETE A WORK OF CONTEMPORARY ART’ (1997); ‘ROOM FOR LOVE’ (1990); ‘TO MAKE A WORK OF TIMELESS ART’ (1996); ‘FLOOR PLAN: EMPTY, EXCEPT’ (1990); ‘DIVISIONS BETWEEN FRIENDS’ (1991); ‘A SCULPTURE BY GAIL HASTINGS: A PAGE TORN FROM A SECRET’ (1993); ‘COINCIDENCE AT 5:51PM (1997); ‘TWO AND THREE STARES’ (1997); ‘STARE THREE’ (1997); ‘UNTITLED DISCUSSION NO. 2’ (1998); AND ‘ART OPINION NO. 636 (1998).