Susan Hiller - The Provisional Texture of Reality

Like her art practice, Susan Hiller's talks, texts and interviews delve into the overlooked recesses of the everyday and the familiar. This collection brings together incisive reviews of artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hélio Oiticica, Yves Klein and Pierro Manzoni, and documents her interventions in current debates around the shifting roles of art and theory, shedding new light on the interface between critical writing and visual art practice. Science, magic, cinema, the senses, ethics and the continuing lure of psychoanalysis are among the subjects that Hiller interrogates with her unique combination of insight, erudition and political acumen. Simultaneously wide-ranging, worldly and deeply personal, this book can be read as a portrait of the artist as public intellectual.