Object Lessons
Language: English
Published by Kunstmuseum an Zee, Ostende, 2012
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- New
Seller: Canal Jones, New York, NY, U.S.A.Canal Jones
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Condition: New
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Two books designed to fit together that but also come apart. The hardcover book has a hole die-cut into its pages with a softcover collection of essays on art and design that fits inside. The hardcover book is foil-stamped cloth, perfect-bound, 28.5 x 22 cm, 112 pages. The softcover book has a 4-color cover, perfect-bound, with four B&W illustrations, 17.5 x 10.8 cm, 96 pages. Joe Scanlan's columns on art and design originally published in frieze and Artforum are gathered here as one long, picaresque narrative in which democracy plays the amiable lead role, only to be undermined by capitalism. From the Lumière Brothers’ use of their employees in the making of the first film to Tino Sehgal’s use of museum visitors in the production of his art, again and again we regress to the familiar, not on the basis of its merits but because it puts the most people at ease. However vexed we were by modernist ideology, the products resulting from the current consensus-based, consumer-driven service economy are really starting to depress me. I miss having to accept something whether I like it or not, if only for the bits of stunning genius that single-mindedness made possible. Consumer culture, where is thy victory? Product, where is thy sting.…
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- Title
- Object Lessons
- Author
- Joe Scanlan
- Publisher
- Kunstmuseum an Zee, Ostende
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9074694063
- ISBN 13
- 9789074694063
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 24 ounces
Part I, Object Lesson, toont 19 Nesting Bookcases (1990-nu) – die door Mu.ZEE werden aangekocht. Tijdens Part II, Truffle finds pig kunnen de inwoners van Oostende de Nesting Bookcases van het museum lenen om ze thuis of in bedrijven over heel de stad een plaatsje te geven.
Esthetisch gezien leunt de Nesting Bookcase sterk aan bij het minimalisme en de arte povera. In praktisch opzicht komt de Nesting Bookcase voort uit de lange traditie van draagbaar Amerikaans design. De Nesting Bookcase is Scanlans stempel op de hedendaagse kunst. Een voorwerp dat zowel interessant is om te aanschouwen als om in de praktijk te gebruiken. Het bestaat uit een rechthoekig vak met vier onafhankelijke schappen, het ene iets kleiner dan het volgende zodat ze zich in elkaar en in het vak “nestelen”. Het vak en de schappen zijn geperforeerd zodat je ze met een riem kan transporteren als ze in elkaar genesteld zijn. Staan ze opgestapeld, dan dient de riem als een structureel treksnoer om het geheel te stabiliseren. Bij Mu.ZEE worden deze twee hoofdfuncties - in rust of beweging - weerspiegeld door de twee instellingen - het museum en de stad - die betrokken zijn bij de tentoonstelling.
Object Lesson wordt begeleid door een prachtige tweedelige publicatie, uitgegeven door Mu.ZEE, ontworpen door DexterSinister uit New York en verdeeld door Walther Koenig Bookhandlers uit Keulen.
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Part I, Object Lesson, toont 19 Nesting Bookcases (1990-nu) – die door Mu.ZEE werden aangekocht. Tijdens Part II, Truffle finds pig kunnen de inwoners van Oostende de Nesting Bookcases van het museum lenen om ze thuis of in bedrijven over heel de stad een plaatsje te geven.
Esthetisch gezien leunt de Nesting Bookcase sterk aan bij het minimalisme en de arte povera. In praktisch opzicht komt de Nesting Bookcase voort uit de lange traditie van draagbaar Amerikaans design. De Nesting Bookcase is Scanlans stempel op de hedendaagse kunst. Een voorwerp dat zowel interessant is om te aanschouwen als om in de praktijk te gebruiken. Het bestaat uit een rechthoekig vak met vier onafhankelijke schappen, het ene iets kleiner dan het volgende zodat ze zich in elkaar en in het vak “nestelen”. Het vak en de schappen zijn geperforeerd zodat je ze met een riem kan transporteren als ze in elkaar genesteld zijn. Staan ze opgestapeld, dan dient de riem als een structureel treksnoer om het geheel te stabiliseren. Bij Mu.ZEE worden deze twee hoofdfuncties - in rust of beweging - weerspiegeld door de twee instellingen - het museum en de stad - die betrokken zijn bij de tentoonstelling.
Object Lesson wordt begeleid door een prachtige tweedelige publicatie, uitgegeven door Mu.ZEE, ontworpen door DexterSinister uit New York en verdeeld door Walther Koenig Bookhandlers uit Keulen.
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Canal Jones has been buying, selling, and publishing rare and limited edition art books, modern firsts, poetry, and related ephemera since 2004. We specialize in post-1960 European and American visual art, literature, poetry, trade, small press, and DIY publications. We are particularly deep in modern American first editions, artists' books, and items related to the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers.
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