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First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Little Island Press / Carcanet Alliance House, 30 Cross Street Manchester m2 7aq www.carcanet.co.uk Text copyright © Rod Mengham 2021 The right of Rod Mengham to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988; all rights reserved. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. isbn 978 1 80017 147 3 Book design by Andrew Latimer Printed in Great Britain by SRP Ltd, Exeter, Devon Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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Contents Preface 5 1. Inner visions: contemporary art and domestic space 11 2. The atrocity exhibition 20 3. The refugee aesthetic 27 4. The art of taking hostages 36 5. Film of folly 45 6. Art & Language 54 7. Implicated in history 67 8. Marc Atkins: fleeing the light 74 9. True longitude: Atkins’s Interstices 78 10. Cul-de-sac cinema 81 11. Stephen Chambers: spinning the compass 84 12. An island romance: The Court of Redonda 91 13. Jake and Dinos Chapman: the surplus value of Hell 99 14. Lessness 107 15. The inscapes of Tony Cragg 113 16. Feeling for tremors: the drawings of John Gibbons 121 17. Like a hinge 123 18. Maintaining transmission 128 19. Antony Gormley: body count 133 20. Visible entropy 143 21. Damien Hirst: butterfly affect 152 22. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: agents and patients 162 23. Frostworks 170 24. The flight of the artist: wings of desire 183 25. Angelology: holding patterns 192 26. Anselm Kiefer: waterworld 200 27. Inside the white crypt 207 28. Albert Oehlen: storm damage 217

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First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Little Island Press / Carcanet Alliance House, 30 Cross Street Manchester m2 7aq www.carcanet.co.uk Text copyright © Rod Mengham 2021 The right of Rod Mengham to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988; all rights reserved. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. isbn 978 1 80017 147 3 Book design by Andrew Latimer Printed in Great Britain by SRP Ltd, Exeter, Devon

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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