Frida Escobedo: The Book of Hours

Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Lars Muller Publishers December 2023, 2023

3037787376 / 9783037787373

Librería: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, Estados Unidos de AmericaHennessey + Ingalls

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Celebrated architect Frida Escobedo's meditation on how light transforms and shapes the built environmentPerhaps as ubiquitous as smartphones today, the books of hours were a private necessity in Europe during the Middle Ages. These manuscripts contained collections of texts that were meaningful to each owner, as well as an organized method of structuring the day around prayer by marking the passing of the canonical hours. Although highly personalized, with intricate miniatures and illuminations, all books of hours contained sections to be recited at regular intervals throughout the twenty-four hours of the day. In them, the public and the private timescales converged, crystallized into a material, perdurable form not devoid of beauty. The Book of Hours by Frida Escobedo is a modern exegesis of this extinct devotional practice: a project in which twenty-four objects were photographed at different intervals of time to capture their evolution, making a new calendar of matter and light. As humanity has transitioned to a secular understanding of time in which hours are organized and conceived in terms of productivity, The Book of Hours interrogates the place of contemplation in our era, its possibility and necessity. Through this book--a public display of a private collection of objects--readers are invited to contemplate these arrays of matter and experience the ways in which they once interacted with light, that burning needle in time's template. …

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Título
Frida Escobedo: The Book of Hours
Autor
Frida Escobedo
Editorial
Lars Muller Publishers December 2023
Año de publicación
2023
Estado
New
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
3037787376
ISBN 13
9783037787373
Catálogos de vendedores
Art - Artists, A-Z

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