- 176 pages
- English
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Sorted Books
About This Book
A witty and thought-provoking collection of visual poems constructed from stacks of books.
Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian's playful photographic series proves that books' coversâor more specifically, their spinesâcan speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting, stacking, and photographing groupings of two, three, four, or five books so that their titles can be read as sentences, creating whimsical narratives from the text found there. Thought-provoking, clever, and at times laugh-out-loud funny (one cluster of titles from the Akron Museum of Art's research library consists of: Primitive Art /Just Imagine/Picasso/Raised by Wolves), Sorted Books is an enthralling collection of visual poems full of wry wit and bookish smarts.
Praise for Sorted Books
"Katchadourian's project... takes on a weight beyond its initial novelty. It's a love letter to books, book collecting and the act of reading." â San Francisco Chronicle
"As a longtime fan of [Katchadourian's] long-running Sorted Books project I'm thrilled for the release of Sorted Books âa collection spanning nearly two decades of her witty and wise minimalist mediations on life by way of ingeniously arranged book spines.... In an era drowned in periodic death tolls for the future of the physical book, her project stands as a celebration of the spirit embedded in the magnificent materiality of the printed page." âBrain Pickings
"Katchadourian's stacks possess an understated sophistication; they are true to the intimate nature of books and yet reveal their dramatic features and unexpected potential." â Publishers Weekly
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN DELAWARE/IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK 2012
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Open Stacks
- Twenty Years of Sorting Books
- Composition 1993
- Reference 1996
- Special Collections Revisited 1996/2008
- Akron Stacks 2001
- Sorting Shark 2001
- Bookpace 2002
- Sorting Strindberg 2004
- Once Upon a Time in Delaware/in Quest of the Perfect Book 2012
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright