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Art at your feet: Edinburgh art festival – in pictures

Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Martin Creed's Work No 1059 on the Scotsman Steps, a winding stone staircase built in 1899, which Creed has covered with 104 different slabs of marble Photograph: Tom Finnie
Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Creed was commissioned by the Fruitmarket Gallery to transform these formerly dingy stairs into a work of pedestrian art
Photograph: Tom Finnie
Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Robert Rauschenberg's Uptown Pig Pox (1988) in front of Le Coon Glut (1986) at the Botanical Vaudeville exhibition at Inverleith House in Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden Photograph: Tom Finnie
Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Robert Rauschenberg's Untitled (glass jar and lid with magnifying glass and silver chain, 1995) with Treadle/ROCI/USA (Wax Fire Works) (1990)
Photograph: Tom Finnie
Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Robert Rauschenberg's Untitled (tyres made from blown glass, 1997) with, in background, Untitled (1987), a shoeshine stand, and Maybelle Brass (1988) Photograph: Tom Finnie
Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Robert Rauschenberg's Eco-Echo IV (1992-93) Photograph: Tom Finnie
Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Tony Cragg's Red Figure (2009) – the British sculptor has a survey of two decades of work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Photograph: The Artist/Private Collection
Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Tony Cragg's Bent of Mind (2002) at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Photograph: The Artist/Private Collection
Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Thomas Houseago's Lying Figure (Mother Father) (2011) at Inverleith House
Photograph: Michael Wolchover/Royal Botanic Garden
Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Thomas Houseago's Rattlesnake Figure (2011) at Inverleith House Photograph: Michael Wolchover/Royal Botanic Garden
Edinburgh Art Festival: Edinburgh Art Festival
Ingrid Calame's Lup Bup Zhir POW! (1994/1997) at the Fruitmarket Gallery Photograph: Courtesy Kunstmuseum St Gallen. Formal collection Rolf Ricke
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