Andrea Büttner

The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition *Andrea Büttner. Beggars and iPhones* at the Kunsthalle Wien (8 July–18 September 2016), as well as two other exhibitions by the artist at the Kunst Halle St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Bergen Kunsthall, Norway. German artist Andrea Büttner, nominated for the Turner Prize in 2017, presents an artist's book on poverty, art history, theology and the politics of social welfare, examining representations of beggars in visual culture. Büttner, whose works deal with concepts such as shame, vulnerability and dignity, presents a current series of woodcuts alongside research undertaken at the Warburg Institute in London on 16th-century vignettes from the Liber Vagatorum on the iconography of shepherds and kings in Christmas nativity scenes. With contributions by Andrea Büttner, Anne Carson, Christopher P. Heuer & Linda Nochlin