A guide to trees for governors and gardeners
"In the satirical tradition of Jonathan Swift, and riffing on Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, Yto Barrada's artist book is a guide humbly submitted by an anonymous bureaucrat describing how to prepare an unnamed city for a visit by a high-ranking diplomatic official. The manual consists...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Berlin
Deutsche + Guggenheim
2011
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| Ausgabe: | Limited ed. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Edition
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "In the satirical tradition of Jonathan Swift, and riffing on Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, Yto Barrada's artist book is a guide humbly submitted by an anonymous bureaucrat describing how to prepare an unnamed city for a visit by a high-ranking diplomatic official. The manual consists of illustrated instructions, graphs, charts, collages, and photographs, and promises to 'reveal for the first time ... a radical innovation' in the method of placing palm trees along the visitor's route. Seemingly reasonable at first, these directives - on repainting sidewalks, making cardboard spectators and arranging palm trees to 'induce a state of euphoria' in the visitor - begin to suggest something amiss behind the patriotic Potemkin facades."--Publisher's website |
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| Beschreibung: | Issued in slipcase. - Limited, numbered, and signed ed. of 350 copies. - "Preparing the city for an official visit ranks among a governor's most important and imposing duties. This guide is humbly submitted by a concerned citizen to help governors and their gardeners create a spectacular welcome, and is illustrated with collages, charts, and photographs. It also proposes a radical innovation regarding the placement and spacing of trees along the route."--P. [4] of cover. - Signed print loosely inserted. - Includes index Timeline -- Painting & cleaning -- Fruits, flowers & weeds -- Flags & music -- Charts & graphs -- The spectator -- Traffic islands -- Palm trees -- Index -- List of works |
| Beschreibung: | 122 S. Ill. 23 cm 1 farbige signierte Graphik (41 x 30 cm, folded to 21 x 15 cm) |