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Break Down Inventory

Michael Landy Ram Distribution Ram Distribution
In February, 2001, performance artist Michael Landy spent a couple of weeks in a public place destroying every single one of his possessions. This book is a detailed list - and only a list - of everything he destroyed: 7227 items in all, ranging...
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Michael Landy. Semi-detached

Judith Nesbitt, John Slyce Tate Tate
Michael Landy (b. 1963) is one of the most exciting and challenging artists to have emerged at the beginning of the 1990s. Landy is best known for his work "Break Down (2001), during which he created a meticulous inventory of his possessions before...
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Michael Landy: Everything Must Go

Ridinghouse Ridinghouse
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Michael Landy: H2NY

Barry Schwabsky, Calvin Tomkins Ram Distribution Ram Distribution
In 1960, Dadaist artist Jean Tinguely took three weeks to build a self-destroying machine, Homage to New York, and it combusted in 27 minutes in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art as a star-studded audience looked on. Forty-seven years later,...
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