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Paul Thek: Tales the Tortoise Taught Us by Paul Thek (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Paul Thek: Tales the Tortoise Taught Us (Future of the Past) by Brehm, Margrit, Ohrt, Roberto, Heil, Axel [Paperback]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherVerlag Der Buchhandlung Walther König

ISBN-103865606172

ISBN-139783865606174

eBay Product ID (ePID)73338015

Product Key Features

Book TitlePaul Thek: Tales the Tortoise Taught Us

Number of Pages156 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicIndividual Artists / Monographs, American / General

Publication Year2009

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorPaul Thek

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight18.4 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

SynopsisThere are some artists who are never forgotten simply because other artists will constantly cite them as examples. Paul Thek (1933-1988) is one such artist. Revered for his disarming humor and irreverent handling of artworld proprieties, and much lamented for his premature death from AIDS at the age of 55, the likes of Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Paul McCarthy, Kim Gordon and Matthew Barney have all sung his praises. Tales the Tortoise Told Us is a three-part Thek compendium, composed of writing by Margit Brehm, Axel Heil and Roberto Ort (who discuss the artist's ambivalent relationship with his homeland, and Thek's odd place in the Beat and Hippie generation), a large spread of reproductions of Thek works and a chronologically-arranged survey of works from 1963 up to the artist's death in 1988., Fin Finnegan, a San Diego police detective and wannabe actor heading straight for a midlife meltdown, is assigned a routine truck theft that turns into a toxic chemical spill, setting off a bizarre chain reaction of death and murder on both sides of the Mexican border. Fin is forced to team up with Nell Salter, a sexy female investigator, as well as an equally fetching US Navy investigator who wants to learn all that Fin can teach her--and that's saying a lot. The New York Times Book Review called it "a frolic, a joy, a hoot, a riot of a book." And Entertainment Weekly said, "superbly crafted and paced, deliciously funny, but fundamentally, as always, deadly serious."

Text byOhrt, Roberto, Brehm, Margrit, Heil, Axel