Publisher's Synopsis
"Text Book: Tamy Ben-Tor & Miki Carmi intersects art historical analyses, artists' interpretations, the reaction of a playwright, and a work of experimental fiction in order to upend the usual ways painting and performance art are described. Highly regarded experimental graphic designer Joshua Gamma interprets their practice liberally-never simply reproducing images of works, but instead distilling Ben-Tor & Carmi's visual language into core elements that operate as a language alongside the work of the commissioned authors' texts.The book attends to the realities of this collaboration. The contributors include celebrated film maker Martin Brest's mapping of his experience of Ben Tor and Carmi's work. Internationally acclaimed artist, author, and theorist, Coco Fusco contributes an analysis of Carmi's innovations in painting, bringing attention to histories of eugenics and the grotesque as pertain to his contemporary art practice. Our in
