Hyperart: Thomasson



Genpei Akasegawa

2009
HYPERART: THOMASSON. By Genpei Akasegawa. New York 2009. 401 S. mit 50 Abb., brosch.

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EUR 19,90  in den Warenkorb

Have you ever seen a Thomasson? That doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete & thing sprouting out of your sidewalk with no discernable purpose. Have you ever puzzled over its strangeness, or stopped to marvel at its useless beauty? In the 1970s Tokyo, artist Akasegawa Genpei and his friends began noticing what they termed "hyperart", aesthetic objects created by removing a structure's function, while carefully maintaining the structure itself. They called these objects "Thomassons," after an American pinch-hitter recruited by a Japanese baseball team, whose bat never connected with a ball.

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