Art Forms In Mechanism. Examples Of The Mechanical World

Language: English

Published by Turpin Editores, Madrid, 2017

849460919X / 9788494609190

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1/500. Small Folio. x, (6)pp., (1) 18 plates, (8)pp., 11 plates, (1) page, 4 (1) plates, Original gray cloth with red lettering on cover. Beautifully illustrated with thirty-three color plates rendered with fine screen offset lithography. "The work of Linarejos Moreno (Madrid 1974) has developed as an apparatus for interrogating Modernity through the liminal scenarios that the gradual globalization of European industrial capitalism has left in its wake. In 2009 Linarejos came across the 19th-century botanical models held in the scientific cabinets belonging to Madrid's historical institutes. Linajeros embarked upon one of the two projects included in this exhibition: Art Form in Mechanism. This took shape through a series of linked experiments: first, the appropriation of the introductory text to Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature), Karl Blossfeldt's celebrated book of botanical photographs dating from 1928, in which Linarejos replaced the word "nature" with the word "mechanism." Secondly, using the same scientific systematization and uniformity of frames, borders and backgrounds that characterize Blossfeldt's photographs, Linajeros compiled a photographic record of botanical models. (Fabiola López Durán). …

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Title
Art Forms In Mechanism. Examples Of The Mechanical World
Author
Moreno, Linarejos; Fabiola López Durán; Suprik Angelini (Postscripts)
Publisher
Turpin Editores, Madrid
Publication year
2017
Condition
Fine condition
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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849460919X
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9788494609190
Edition
First edition.
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Since 1985 we offer individual books for sale from our inventory of 150,000 rare, out-of-print and antiquarian volumes on many topics, with an emphasis on Judaica, Hebraica, Bibles and rabbinics, the fine and decorative arts, architecture, photography, textile and wallpaper sample books, Bauhaus and the avant garde, expressionist dance, Olympic Games and sport, the ancient near-east and archeology, erotica, illustrated and foreign-language books, especially German, Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew, as well as books from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, plus Russian constructivist materials. We create book collections, both large and small, for individuals, decorators, archives and libraries¿currently available: a 10,000-volume research collection on Judaica in the German language. In addition, we maintain a beguiling selection of original works of art and photography. Eric Chaim Kline provides appraisal services for estate, insurance and tax purposes, often helping to match book donors with libraries and museums. We purchase books of merit and entire collections; we also take books on consignment with favorable terms. We are a rental source for movie and tv production, occasionally providing the prop on which the plot turns. Traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe, Eric Chaim Kline has been buying and selling old and rare books since the 1980¿s, when in graduate school at Brandeis University. Proprietor of bookshops in several Los Angeles locations since 1985, he hosts visitors by appointment in our lively bookstore and ships books to collectors, libraries and museums worldwide. Kline occasionally lectures on topics in book collecting and Jewish studies. He sponsors the annual Bibliography Award granted by the Association of Jewish Libraries and serves on the national board of the Antiquarian Booksellers¿ Association of America. We welcome your inquiries.…

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