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Fischli and Weiss – The Way Things Go

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The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) is a thirty-minute film by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss featuring a series of chain reactions involving ordinary objects. It is also one of the truly amazing works of art produced in the late twentieth century. Millar tells us why this extraordinary film speaks to us at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Artist / Author Jeremy Millar
Publisher Afterall
ISBN 978-1846380358
Reference P2882
Date 2007
Type Publication

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