Item Number: 132850 Title: JIMMY DURHAM : Waiting to be interrupted : selected writing, 1993-2012 Author: Fisher, Jean (et al) Price: Not Available ISBN: JIMMIE DURHAM Description: Milano: Mousse Publishing, 2014. 21cm., pbk., 368pp. illus. English text. Exhibition held at M HKA, Antwerp. Summary: Durham’s primary format is storytelling, central to which is the ability to communicate experience. Edited by Jean Fisher, Selected Writing is the second, long-awaited collection of the artist’s texts, produced and released in a twenty-year span. If the forms of address in the texts aim for simplicity, the use of language—peppered with puns and neologisms and digressions into multilingual etymologies—demonstrates a complexity that persistently defers our demand for easy interpretation. As Durham frequently implies, his subversion of textual logic is intended to liberate words as material from their entrapment in thoughtless conventions (blind belief), just as his play with found materials is intended to free art from its capture in the deathly inertia of monumentalism—its connection to architexture. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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