An atlas of commonplace. a notebook for artists

You’ll find all sorts of things in Helguera’s Manual that aren’t in any other book: the difference between an A-level artist and a B-level artist, how to cure the dreaded “festivalist syndrome, ” how to keep your conviction that you’re the greatest artist in history, and whether it is ethical for a critic to sleep with an artist whose work she doesn’t like. This is a very funny book. It masquerade...

Drawing on the rich literary tradition of the aphorism, Pablo Helguera uses an anthropologists lens to comment on contemporary art its practice. While this is a book directed to visual artists, the reflections of An Atlas of Commonplaces provide a window to current issue around art making for art professionals and the general public alike.Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist livin...

Drawing on the rich literary tradition of the aphorism, Pablo Helguera uses an anthropologists lens to comment on contemporary art its practice. While this is a book directed to visual artists, the reflections of An Atlas of Commonplaces provide a window to current issue around art making for art professionals and the general public alike.Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist livin...

Drawing on the rich literary tradition of the aphorism, Pablo Helguera uses an anthropologists lens to comment on contemporary art its practice. While this is a book directed to visual artists, the reflections of An Atlas of Commonplaces provide a window to current issue around art making for art professionals and the general public alike.Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist livin...

Drawing on the rich literary tradition of the aphorism, Pablo Helguera uses an anthropologists lens to comment on contemporary art its practice. While this is a book directed to visual artists, the reflections of An Atlas of Commonplaces provide a window to current issue around art making for art professionals and the general public alike.Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist livin...

Drawing on the rich literary tradition of the aphorism, Pablo Helguera uses an anthropologists lens to comment on contemporary art its practice. While this is a book directed to visual artists, the reflections of An Atlas of Commonplaces provide a window to current issue around art making for art professionals and the general public alike.Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist livin...

Drawing on the rich literary tradition of the aphorism, Pablo Helguera uses an anthropologists lens to comment on contemporary art its practice. While this is a book directed to visual artists, the reflections of An Atlas of Commonplaces provide a window to current issue around art making for art professionals and the general public alike.Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist livin...

Drawing on the rich literary tradition of the aphorism, Pablo Helguera uses an anthropologists lens to comment on contemporary art its practice. While this is a book directed to visual artists, the reflections of An Atlas of Commonplaces provide a window to current issue around art making for art professionals and the general public alike.Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist livin...

For too long Social Practice has been the notoriously flimsy flipside of market-based contemporary art: a world of hand-wringing practitioners easily satisfied with the feeling of doing good in a community, and unaware that their quasi-activist, anti-formalist positions in fact have a long artistic heritage and can be critically dissected using the tools of art and theatre history. Helgueras spunk...