Ellen Harvey
The Disappointed Tourist

This publication accompanies and documents the first Austrian museum exhibition of the British-American artist Ellen Harvey. In addition to dealing with the relationship between tourism and art, the use of landscapes and landscape images as material is a main theme of the works presented.

Harvey is a painter, cartographer, concept and graffiti artist and much more. Her media range from classic oil painting to collage, drawing and mirror engraving to sculptural or architectural installations as well as interventions and works in public space. She often juxtaposes traditional painterly vocabulary, postmodern strategies of appropriation, and methods such as mapping, pastiche, and institutional critique. The artist's works are critical comments on perception, the social space that art occupies, and the role of art as a mirror of society. Harvey often uses humor and spectacle to entice viewers to reexamine their preconceived notions. She repeatedly offers the audience the opportunity to contribute discursively or to participate, since we all form “the inevitable final context of every work of art” (Ellen Harvey).

Edited by Thorsten Sadowsky for the Museum der Moderne Salzburg
With texts by Christian Viveros-Fauné and Tina Teufel and a foreword by Thorsten Sadowsky

Softcover, approx. 192 pages, approx. 220 images.
Snoeck, Cologne, 2021
German-English edition
ISBN 978-3-86442-343-7
Book size: 24.5 x 28.5 cm, portrait format

This publication accompanies and documents the first Austrian museum exhibition of British-American artist Ellen Harvey. In addition to the discussion of the relation between tourism and art it also thematizes the use of landscapes and their respective images as material.
Harvey is a painter, a cartographer, a conceptual, and graffiti artist and much more. Her media range from classic oil painting to collage, drawing, and mirror engraving to sculptural or architectural installations as well as interventions and works in public space. She frequently juxtaposes a traditional painterly vocabulary, post-modern strategies of appropriation, and approaches such as mapping, pastiche, and institutional critique. In her work she provides critical commentary on the perception of art, the social space that art occupies, and the role of art as a mirror of society. She often uses humor and spectacle to beguile viewers into examining their preconceptions. In the process, she provides the public with the possibility to play a part in the discourse or to contribute, because "we are all the inevitable final context of any artwork." (Ellen Harvey)

Ed. by Thorsten Sadowsky for the Museum der Moderne Salzburg
With a preface by Thorsten Sadowsky and texts by Tina Teufel and Christian Viveros-Fauné

Soft cover, 192 pages, aproxx. 220 illustrations.
Snoeck, Cologne, 2021
English-German,
ISBN 978-3-86442-343-7
24.5x28.5cm.