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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 1990s, and others including personal diaries, letters, calligraphy, alphabets and primers. She 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 call somewhere between a literature of the news item or photo-essay and poetic maxims for personal use. Messager's frequent recourse to copying down and to repetition then serves as a kind of exorcism: in those cases, writing is something like sewing, with a soothing function. The first section of Word for Word focuses on writing in Annette Messager's artworks. The second includes numerous texts published in magazines or catalogues, as well as unpublished notes on her work and personal reflections on art and life. All of her interviews from 1974 to the present are also included.
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. First Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 10603338-6
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Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.8. Nº de ref. del artículo: G1933045353I2N00
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Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. 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 1990s, and others including personal diaries, letters, calligraphy, alphabets and primers. She 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 call somewhere between a literature of the news item or photo-essay and poetic maxims for personal use. Messager's frequent recourse to copying down and to repetition then serves as a kind of exorcism: in those cases, writing is something like sewing, with a soothing function. The first section of Word for Word focuses on writing in Annette Messager's artworks. The second includes numerous texts published in magazines or catalogues, as well as unpublished notes on her work and personal reflections on art and life. All of her interviews from 1974 to the present are also included. Nº de ref. del artículo: SONG1933045353
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Librería: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing). Nº de ref. del artículo: 001976
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Librería: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Nº de ref. del artículo: Holz_New_1933045353
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Librería: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. Bound in red boards. stamped in black with illustrated dust jacket. Tight, clean copy of this 460 pp. book of art. Hundreds of illustrations (color and black and white). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Nº de ref. del artículo: 5000738
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Librería: Campbell Bookstore, Austin, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new. Nº de ref. del artículo: NewCamp1933045353
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Librería: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First Edition. This is a New and Unead copy of the first editio and is still sealed in the original publisher's unopened shrink wrap. Nº de ref. del artículo: 001231
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Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Nº de ref. del artículo: think1933045353
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Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase. Nº de ref. del artículo: oldport1933045353
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