Keith Tyson: Iterations and Variations

About this book

This definitive volume on artist Keith Tysons thirty- year career examines all aspects of his artistic endeavors. British Turner Prizewinning artist Keith Tyson is known for a distinctive and diverse body of work including drawing painting installation and sculpture. Showing a wide range of influences extending from mathematics and science through to poetry and mythology he has an interest in how art emerges from the combination of information systems and physical processes that surround us every day. For over thirty years Tyson has probed dissected explored and questioned reality. Not fixed to one artistic style Tysons mission is to challenge himself and the audience while working with diverse materialspaint clay metal resinto question our knowledge of the world we perceive as real and arts role in representing it. Iterations and Variations offers an overview of the artists work in many media with gallery installation views. Featuring 400 illustrations and contributions by a number of leading critics this is an edifying look at the acclaimed artist. 429 color illustrations