A ground-breaking global survey of today's most innovative artists working with text The
inclusion of text in works of art was a revolutionary creative advancement of the twentieth
century with artists subverting traditional conceptions of 'art' and 'writing.' Younger
generations of artists have continued to use the inherent readability of words to communicate
ideas to viewers across a diverse array of mediums including painting sculpture installation
and video. Nominated by 66 leading global experts (including curators critics museum
directors and professors) Vitamin Txt showcases 103 living artists from 34 countries
who place the use of text centrally within their artistic practices. With more the 500 artworks
illustrated and an introduction about the history of artists using text from ancient Chinese
calligraphy to contemporary digital art the book's focus allows for a showcase of a range of
different mediums providing a cross-disciplinary view into the art world today.
Advisors include: Negar Azimi Naomi Beckwith Meriem Berrada Isolde Brielmaier Yeon Shim
Chung Tandazani Dhlakama Yilmaz Dziewior Touria El Glaoui Ruth Erickson Alison Gingeras
Krist Gruijthuijsen Jennifer Higgie Mami Kataoka Sunjung Kim Venus Lau Helen Molesworth
Kimberly Moulton Fumio Nanjo Chika Okeke-Agulu Adriano Pedrosa Nada Raza Dieter
Roelstraete Andrew Russeth Nancy Spector Sarah Thornton Marianna Vecellio Gilbert Vicario
Victor Wang Artists featured include: Ghada Amer Hellen Ascoli Kamyar Bineshtarigh
Sophie Calle Alejandro Cesarco Heman Chong Tony Cokes Tracey Emin Jeffrey Gibson Shilpa
Gupta Jenny Holzer Roni Horn Ichihara Hiroko Christine Sun Kim Barbara Kruger Glenn Ligon
Harland Miller Shirin Neshat Adam Pendleton Shubigi Rao Kameelah Janan Rasheed Kay Rosen
Ed Ruscha David Shrigley Studio for Propositional Cinema Hank Willis Thomas Rirkrit
Tiravanija Nora Turato Kaylene Whiskey John Wood and Paul Harrison Xu Bing Young-Hae Chang
Heavy Industries | A ground-breaking global survey of today's most innovative artists
working with text | Phaidon Editors Evan Moffitt is a writer editor and
freelance critic based in New York.
