When Joep van Lieshout (b. 1963) founded the art and architecture studio that bears his name, he set in motion what has been described as -a new Dutch architectural style... dirty, delicious and direct.- Now Atelier Van Lieshout is 10, and the first major monograph devoted to it, A Manual (1997), has been sold out for years. This new overview brings readers into AVL's contrarian applied art via luxuriously appointed -mobile homes, - autonomous communes and surreal art projects, with equal time given to AVL-Ville (2001), a -free state- in Rotterdam's port, complete with its own...
When Joep van Lieshout (b. 1963) founded the art and architecture studio that bears his name, he set in motion what has been described as -a new Dutch...