Sorted Books
Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian's playful photographic series proves that books' covers—or more specifically, their spines—can speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting, stacking, and...
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Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian's playful photographic series proves that books' covers—or more specifically, their spines—can speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting, stacking, and photographing groupings of two, three, four, or five books so that their titles can be read as sentences, creating whimsical narratives from the text found there. Thought-provoking, clever, and at times laugh-out-loud funny (one cluster of titles from the Akron Museum of Art's research library consists of: Primitive Art/Just Imagine/Picasso/Raised by Wolves), Sorted Books is an enthralling collection of visual poems full of wry wit and bookish smarts.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781452113296 (1452113297)
Publish date: March 5th 2013
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
You must read this book if:1. You love books2. You admire brilliant humor3. Your response to most contemporary art is, "Oh, come on -- seriously? I mean, *seriously*?"After reading this book, you'll still retain factors 1. and 2., but you'll enjoy some relief from 3. Katchadourian's premise is so da...