Parker, Cornelia, 1956-, Lost volume , 1993
- Title(s):
- Lost volume : a catalogue of disasters / Cornelia Parker ; photography, Edward Woodman.
- Published/Created:
- London : Book Works, 1993.
- Physical Description:
- [30] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm. in folder 28 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsN7433.4 P36 L7 1993+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon FundView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3806944
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Edition limited to 530 copies.
""Lost volume: a catalogue of disasters" continues Cornelia Parker's preoccupation with destruction. Following on from "Cold Dark Matter", where - with the help of the British Army - Parker exploded a garden shed crammed with objects, "Lost volume: a catalogue of disasters" uses the intimate form of the book to present several flattened objects that - through the use of trompe-l'oeil - appear to have been squashed between the pages of the book. Parker crushes these selected objects in a press between sheets of heavy paper, creating embossed indentations and reducing the objects to two-dimensional representations of their former three-dimensional selves. The selected objects are seemingly unconnected ; a contents page that includes objects not flattened in the book confuses matters further. The book is perhaps best read as a way of seeing objects - and the world - in a new light.--Book Works website. - Subject Terms:
- Artists' books -- Great Britain.Photography, Artistic.Sculpture, British.
- Form/Genre:
- Artists' books.
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