Editore: D.A.P./Les Presses du Reel, 2006
ISBN 10: 1933045353 ISBN 13: 9781933045351
Da: West Cove UK, Wellington, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Texts and words are of crucial importance to Annette Messager's work for her, "words are images". And so words at once autonomous from, parallel to, and the sources of her visual creativity are woven throughout her production. She has looked directly at our diverse relationships to language in forms ranging from the early scrapbooks of the 1970s to the large sculpted words of the late 19gos, and other including personal diaries, letters, calligraphy, alphabets, and primers. Messager works with the repeated, drawn, framed, and sculpted word; newsprint, collage, and montage of texts and photographs; and handwritten texts. Plays on words and palindromes turn up in her exhibition titles and, more recently, in her children's books. All of these uses of language stem as much from Dada and Surrealism as from the aesthetics of the banal and the everyday, and they give rise to unclassifiable texts, which fall somewhere between a literature of the news item of photo- essay and p.