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Synopsis
The NATO Codification System (NCS) is a military inventory which is both complex and comprehensive, using at its base a four-digit coding system to identify, classify and number items of supply. From books, to animals, to furniture, every item used by the military has a corresponding number categorising and articulating them for use within a military syntax. Since discovering a file on the NATO Codification System in the offices of a defence spares company in London, Suzanne Treister became fascinated by the nature of the codification, using it to develop an encyclopaedic series of watercolours. The book contains 186 of these intricate still-life renditions of diverse objects, including: machinery, radios, nuclear bombs, musical instruments, toiletries, leather shoes, combat ships, games, camouflage equipment, clothing, laundry equipment and pyrotechnics among others. These beautifully crafted illustrations not only showcase Treister's vivid imagination but ultimately investigate the idea that there is an underlying scientific and philosophical teleology at work within such an act of representation, leading to the increase of our wisdom and understanding.
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Review
''As Marek Kohn explains in an excellent introduction to Treister's book, there are 56 NSC codification bureaus around the world and the Nato system is the envy of taxonomists everywhere.'' --London Review of Books
''Treister makes canny use of the classification system for her watercolours.'' --Bookforum
''Treister makes canny use of the classification system for her watercolours.'' --Bookforum
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- PublisherBlack Dog Publishing
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1906155615
- ISBN 13 9781906155612
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
- EditorDuncan McCorquodale
- IllustratorSuzanne Treister
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