Forth book in Afterall Books' "Exhibition Histories" series focusing on ‘Magiciens de la Terre,’ an exhibition held in Paris in 1989 featuring over a hundred artists. Introduction by Pablo Lafuente. Text by Lucy Steeds, Jean-Marc Poinsot, Rasheed Araeen, Jean Fisher, Thomas McEvilley, Jean-Hubert Martin, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Barbara Kruger. Interview with Jean-Hubert Martin, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Alfredo Jaar, and Francisco Godoy Vega. Artists included Marina Abramovic, John Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Hans Haacke, Alfredo Jaar, On Kawara, Anselm Kiefer, Barbara Kruger, Richard Long, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Nam June Paik, Sigmar Polke, Nancy Spero, Lawrence Weiner, and many others. Includes author's biographies, selected bibliography, and index.
