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Francis Alÿs: The Nature of the Game

by David MacDougall
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783969120729
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: DCV
  • Publisher Imprint: DCV
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: USD 39.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 304 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Artists / Artists' Books

The Belgian artist Francis Alÿs (b. Antwerp, 1959) makes work that is as multifaceted as it is poetically subversive. Straddling the line between performative conceptual art and community intervention, his films and drawings chart the political and social realities of urban spaces. One of his most imposing long-term projects is Children's Games, for which he documents children playing all over the world, from Paris and Mexico City to the Yezidi refugee camp Sharya in Iraq. The richly illustrated book contains ideas and sketches he compiled in preparation for this series. An essay by David MacDougall embeds Alÿs's observations of children's play in the contexts of childhood studies as well as the history of ethnographic documentary film.

David MacDougall (born November 12, 1939) is an American-Australian visual anthropologist, academic, and documentary filmmaker, who is known for his ethnographic film work in Africa, Australia, Europe, and India.

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