Francis Alÿs | Phaidon designers Meet MoMA From the Museum

Meet MoMA From the Museum of Modern Art's design store

Calle's often controversial works fuses conceptual art and self-imposed constraints

686 x 508 mm

all united by a poetic quality and an enduring preoccupation with such universal themes as time and cosmic cycles

his buzzing scenes alive with religious symbolism

Francis Alÿs | Phaidon designers Meet MoMA From the MuseumA fully updated and expanded edition of the artist's first comprehensive monograph, more than a decade since its original publication. Francis Als examines the patterns of various urban sites before weaving his own fables into their tangled social fabric with wit, sensitivity, and an acutely personal connection to his subject matter. A scene such as a Volkswagen Beetle struggling up a hill or a man pushing a block of ice can carry a message that