Sol LeWitt: 100 Views

Sol LeWitt: 100 Views
ISBN-10
0300152825
ISBN-13
9780300152821
Series
Sol LeWitt
Category
Art / Individual Artists / General
Pages
271
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
MASS MoCA
Authors
Sol LeWitt, Simon Starling

Description

"2005 Turner Prize winner Simon Starling is known for his investigations into the hidden lives of objects and images, and his catalogues are an integral part of his production. The Nanjing Particles, published for an exhibition at MASS MoCA, is a unique object that takes as its departure a historical stereograph of Chinese laborers brought to Massachusetts in 1870 to break a strike. Starling literally mined the photographs for their history, extracting from their emulsion two silver particles. Enlarged one million times, the microscopic grains were translated into stainless steel sculptures fabricated by workers in Nanjing. Taking viewers through the installation and the work's fabrication process, the book reiterates the visual and conceptual play of the exhibition. The cover, which features die-cut peepholes, mimics the form of a structure in the exhibition. Readers can use the book itself as a low-tech stereoscope to view the photographs - printed on the inside covers - as a single three-dimensional image." --Book Jacket.

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