{"product_id":"9783777420622","title":"Verena Landau: Passages, Passengers, Places","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis lavishly illustrated book presents a comprehensive overview of the career thus far of German artist Verena Landau, documenting her projects from 1999 through 2013. Landau is particularly interested in the tense relationship between art and commerce, a theme that runs through several of her works. The sale of her painted film stills \u003ci\u003ePasolini-Stills\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePassing Pasolini\u003c\/i\u003e, for example, led her to create portraits of collectors engaged in mundane activities in the spaces in front of the paintings, while \u003ci\u003eZone of Discretion\u003c\/i\u003e traces the story of a painting that was sold to a bank. Another project involved staging a fictional theft of her own painting through a series of photomontages. In more recent years, Landau has been interested in entrances to banks and shareholder meetings, public passages, and, most recently, spaces of public transit and the waiting and movement that occur there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA retrospective that reveals an artist changing and evolving, \u003ci\u003eVerena Landau: Passages\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePassengers, Places\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating, revealing document of a cutting-edge artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hirmer Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060525023472,"sku":"9783777420622","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783777420622_p0.jpg?v=1763683223","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783777420622","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}