Art Is Magic: a children's book for adults by

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The first monograph in French, Art is Magic explores the cultural references of the celebrated British artist, from Rod Stewart to the Industrial Revolution, linking them to his iconic works.

We will be happy to offer you a full refund, replacement or exchange on any items excluding custom prints, Goldfinger + Tate furniture, face coverings and pierced earrings. Part autobiography, part coffee table tome, part chats-with-friends, it is a delicious hybrid that clearly and enjoyably presents a unique collection of work with a coherent set of concerns and interests.His projects, such as The Battle of Orgreave, 2001, We’re Here Because We’re Here, 2016 and the documentary Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992, 2019, have influenced the conventional map of contemporary art. He decided to be photographed in the place he hated most to show those people what he had made of himself. Just like the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, this book shows the full breadth of Englishness, with all its challenges, and embraces them. All artwork deliveries from The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd require a signature and we accept no responsibility if the signature is not that of the recipient, or nominate recipient, and will consider the package correctly delivered. The elaborate book, conceived by Jeremy Deller himself, is structured into twelve chapters written by the artist and includes five interviews.

I was 12 or 13, when I sat and watched Performance on a big screen with huge speakers in the Great Hall – all this sado-masochistic sex and violence.

While some of his works are very expensive to produce, with epic operational challenges, much of the work is inexpensive and everyday. I only really discovered Deller’s art relatively recently and I have to say I find his work absolutely fascinating. He describes using contrasting elements to create ‘a visual jolt’, a kind of vibrational tension, in his work. Today the notion of the architect as the controlling auteur still dominates both the teaching and practising of architecture. This year's festival is for everyone and we want to make it possible for more people than ever before to be able to come together and enjoy a packed festival.

Curating the festival for the first time, Jen and James have been inspired by Folkestone and how we can all come together through inspired discussion about global ideas, global thinking and possible futures. The work was a response to the Murdoch press amplifying conspiracy theories that arsonists played a major role in the devastating Australian wildfires of 2019 and 2020. The book features work from across Deller’s life and art and includes Sacrilege, the inflatable Stonehenge, the Iggy Pop Life Class, The Battle of Orgreave, a recreation of a confrontation from the Miners’ Strike, bats (a subject in at least three of Deller’s works), Andy Warhol (whom he met in 1986), rave culture, hen harriers pecking out the eyes of a Tory MP, and a giant Chameleon slide. It is subtitled “a children’s book for adults”, which somewhat underplays the provocative political undertow of some of the projects described within, whether it is his epic reenactment of the “Battle of Orgreave” during the miners’ strike or his 2019 film Putin’s Happy, which captures the febrile atmosphere of the Brexit protests in Parliament Square. The book features work from across Deller's life and art and includes Sacrilege, the inflatable Stonehenge, the Iggy Pop Life Class, The Battle of Orgreave, a recreation of a confrontation from the Miners' Strike, bats (a subject in at least three of Deller's works), Andy Warhol (whom he met in 1986), rave culture, hen harriers pecking out the eyes of a Tory MP, and a giant Chameleon slide.Interviews with figures as diverse as Mary Beard and Jonny Banger punctuate Deller’s reflections, as do artworks from numerous contemporaries of Deller’s, including Nick Abrahams, Tasha Amini, Olivier Antoine of Art Concept, Cecilia Bengolea and Sean Bidder. This literary snapshot perhaps captures the myriad interests of Jeremy Deller, the conceptual artist and author of my chosen book. I usually don’t make such blunt statements,” he says, “but, with them, it was about the damage they have done to the world through their media empire. But if you can let go early in the process, have an intelligent conversation with the public and be open to surprises, then the outcomes can be unexpected and better.

Art is Magic is an artist’s monograph, presenting artworks from the last 30 years with a thematic structure. I make work around and about politics,” he elaborates, “so politics is definitely embedded in the art as either a piece of political theatre or political memorial. The book is written in my own words,” he explains, “and the tone I was aiming for is someone sitting in a pub chatting to you about what they’ve been up to. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. As with his famous drawing The History of the World, a flow diagram of how popular culture can sometimes shape the course of history, even predict it, his entire practice sometimes feels like an epic attempt to prove that everything is connected.The great strength of Jeremy Deller's artworks is that they directly raise the question of the sacredness and untouchability of spaces, social codes and emblems of power and even more so of political, economic and religious powers. Look closely and you realise Street is also wearing his middleweight wrestling championship title belt. Art is Magic is artist Jeremy Deller's attempt to tie up the key works of his career alongside the art, pop music, film, politics and history that have inspired his work. This book is an enjoyable look back across 30 years worth of artworks by Jeremy Deller - from his playful inflatable Stonehenge to his poignant intervention where soldiers in World War I uniforms turned up at stations.