Mark Wallinger: The Russian Linesman

Mark Wallinger
228 x 160 mm 144 pp softback
Fully illustrated
978 1 85332 272 3
£16.99 (£14.99 at the exhibition)

Turner Prize-winner Mark Wallinger is one of Britain’s most intellectually curious and unpredictable artists. This book provides a unique insight into his imaginative approach to art and life. Navigating art history, politics, sport, literature and popular culture, Wallinger pursues with vigour in his own words, and through selected quotations, poetry and artworks, subjects that preoccupy him in his own art: ambiguities of perception, the threshold between reality and illusion, and those moments that mark a historical shift in consciousness.

The Russian Linesman takes its title from a famous – or infamous – sporting moment when the linesman awarded the decisive goal to England in the 1966 World Cup Final between England and West Germany. His controversial ruling exemplifies a central concept of this project: disputed boundaries.

Richly illustrated with over 100 plates that bring together historical and contemporary works, that reach from a Roman double portrait of Dionysus and Silenus, through to Dürer woodcuts, early photographic pioneering works, a trompe l’oeil sculpture by Vija Celmins, and a video by Aernout Mik; this is an artist’s exploration of the frontiers and border zones through which, and by which, we come to be defined.

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