Monk:The Billboard Book Project (Paris)



2010
MONK, JONATHAN.

The Billboard Book Project (Paris). Paris 2010. Format 30 x 40 cm. 210 S., Hln. - Mit einer montierten Farbphotographie - Auflage: 40 numerierte und signierte Exemplare und 20 Exemplare a.p.

Bestell-Nr: 1445492

EUR 648,00  in den Warenkorb

The Billboard Book book of Jonathan Monk is fabricated from the billboard project announcing its publication, is a great piece of conceptual wizardry. It refers to itself in the natty text that Monk devised, invoking every last piece of technical detail constituting its manufacture. And then, the object slices up, and becomes a volume, showing, in one neat gesture, how irrelevant taxonomies such as sculpture/painting/book, really are. Daniel Buren and others have chewed on these problems. But what is so really neat, and now, about Mr. Monks piece for Three Star Books, is the human dimension. In the age of the social network, where you and me can really log right on to anyone elses site, why should the printer of this billboard book book be left out? And isnt it nice that the photographer is mentioned too? Not to speak of the dear lady crating the book in its cartons and that the design is by Vier5. Here, the humility and humor of Monk come brilliantly to the fore. Every last soul involved in the manufacture of this book object has been duly mentioned. Gone is the age when art authorship and art assistants were two separate matters. Monk acts more like a producer in this case, and shows the artistic process for the collaborative endeavor it really is. Now, for all those old-time Marxists, with their very good intentions, and sometimes lesser capacity to enact them, here is a beautiful lesson in how to be both procreative, and democratic, both deferential to ones mentors, and yet, generative, all at the same time, and in 1.8 kilograms of highly meaningful paper pulp.

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