Maurizio Cattelan: Is There Life Before Death? Menil Publications Josef Helfenstein is the director

Josef Helfenstein is the director at the Kunstmuseum Basel

Robert Morris

The book foregrounds the relationship between drawing and art made for the “small screen”—the domestic television set and early portable video cameras

and her cut-and-pasted word drawings that combine well-known literary texts by Gertrude Stein and William Shakespeare with colloquial expressions

He has contributed to numerous publications on modern art

Maurizio Cattelan: Is There Life Before Death? Menil Publications Josef Helfenstein is the directorThis publication features new works by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) and several of his large scale pieces dating from 2003 to 2007, all of which are considered in the context of the Menil Collections remarkable holdings, with a focus on contemporary art. Cattelans subversive, often jarringly direct sculptures are acclaimed for their seemingly absurd juxtapositions and uncanny realism. Reflecting deep suspicions of religious and political