{"product_id":"mary-ellen-carroll-how-to-talk-dirty-and-influence-people-hardcover","title":"Mary Ellen Carroll: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Ellen Carroll\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eKaren Kelly\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRebecca Matalon\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Carroll's civic-oriented conceptual art, humor and provocation sit alongside rigorous research and ethical commitment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWorking across performance, publishing, urban intervention and long-term social engagement, New York-based artist Mary Ellen Carroll (born 1961) uses conversation, contracts, zoning codes and bureaucratic processes as the key components of their conceptual language. Their practice unfolds through law, architecture and lived systems rather than discrete objects. The artist often operates in real time and in public view, embracing uncertainty, risk and contradiction as generative conditions. \u003ci\u003eHow To Talk Dirty and Influence People\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive overview of Carroll's work since the 1980s. Bringing together performance documentation, new critical essays, commissioned fiction and poetry and conversations with the artist, this publication presents the oeuvre of an artist whose work insists that speech, negotiation and persistence are powerful tools for reshaping social reality.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 11.8 x 8.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48638619844829,"sku":"9781954947221","price":58.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/Ei8bJRPg6c9781954947221.webp?v=1789804291","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/mary-ellen-carroll-how-to-talk-dirty-and-influence-people-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}