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Featuring works by more than 30 international artists, including Sonia Boyce, Thomas Demand, Robert Gober, Damien Hirst, Abigail Lane, Francesco Simeti, and Niki de Saint Phalle, this collection puts wallpaper in context by showing how historic wallpaper motifs, styles, and methods are used in contemporary art and how existing patterns have been adapted and subverted to telling effect. Inherently ephemeral and often overlooked, wallpaper has hardly been the most obvious medium for a contemporary avant-garde artist; however, during the past two decades, artists exploring themes of home, memory, and identity have created installations with backdrops of specially designed wallpaper which has played a crucial part in the mise en scene. Some of the wallpapers are pictorial polemics that illustrate warfare or racism, and others show obvious conflicts in contemporary Western culture, in particular those associated with gender and sexuality.

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Gill Saunders is an art historian at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where she serves as Senior Curator in the Word & Image Department, and she is an expert on wallpaper, contemporary printmaking, and installation art. She is the author of Picturing Plants, Prints Now: Directions and Definitions, and Sian Bowen: Gaze. Dominique Heyse-Moore is the co-curator of the Wallpapers exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, England. Trevor Keeble is the associate director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University.

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