Consuming passions: Miranda Sawyer on why we are all shopping for our lives. (Art).("Shopping: a century of art and consumer culture") : An article from: New Statesman (1996) [HTML]

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Title: Consuming passions: Miranda Sawyer on why we are all shopping for our lives. (Art).("Shopping: a century of art and consumer culture")
Author: Miranda Sawyer
Publication: New Statesman (1996) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 20, 2003
Publisher: New Statesman, Ltd.
Volume: 132 Issue: 4621 Page: 38(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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The exhibition "Shopping: a century of art and consumer culture" at Tate Liverpool is a giant. Spread over two floors and 17 rooms, it features bracing work by Duchamp, Christo, Joseph Beuys, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Andreas Gursky, Michael Landy, Damien Hirst, Wolfgang Tillmans and Andy Warhol, who once said, "All department stores will become museums and all museums will become department stores." This exhibition goes further, with an opening installation by Guillaume Bijl that reproduces Tesco's in perfect form: fully stocked, fresh products lined up and ready to go, but with no till assistants, no way to buy. It's a disconcerting experience, walking through a gallery door to find yourself in a mini-mart. "One bloke got very...


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