Tony Tasset: Better Me

Normal, IL: University Galleries, Illinois State University; Abbeville Press Publishers, 2003. 79 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Catalogue of installation held at University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Ill., January 14 to February 23, 2003 and at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, March 12 to April 19, 2003. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. "Bound by an overarching sincerity and yearning for the ideal, Tony Tasset's wry work has confronted the confluence of art, contemporary culture, and the everyday since the mid-1980s. Recently, Tasset has turned his investigations inward, using his personal life as a self-effacing foil to address social stereotypes, conflicts of the ego, and how we see ourselves through media influenced perspectives." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Tony Tasset: the amazing technicolor conceptualist, by Martin Patrick; Interview with Tony Tasset, by Stuart Horodner; Wet/dry: the Tasset dimension, by Barry Blinderman; Only an eye but what an eye, by Michelle Grabner; Still life with blue jay: endgame in Tony Tasset's art, by Bill Conger.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.