Life and Limbs
$62.95
Unit price
per
Author: Coplan, Alison
Anna-Sophie Berger assembled a group of works that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed. Each work in this volume was chosen for its ability to trouble the limits of what a body can become: from the metamorphosis that comes from wearing a garment to complete transfigurations into surreal, new beings. This volume includes works by Arakawa and Madeline Gins, CoBrA, Sarah Charlesworth and more.The starting point for Berger were two designs for necklaces by the Surrealist Meret Oppenheim – one resembling a baby’s legs wrapped around a neck, and the other featuring a pendant with a grinning toothy mouth smoking a cigarette, designed to hang at the softest part of the throat.
ISBN 9791280579096. Swiss Institute/Lenz Press. hb. 180 pages. 145 colour, 25 b/w ills. 28 x 22 cm.
available
Anna-Sophie Berger assembled a group of works that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed. Each work in this volume was chosen for its ability to trouble the limits of what a body can become: from the metamorphosis that comes from wearing a garment to complete transfigurations into surreal, new beings. This volume includes works by Arakawa and Madeline Gins, CoBrA, Sarah Charlesworth and more.The starting point for Berger were two designs for necklaces by the Surrealist Meret Oppenheim – one resembling a baby’s legs wrapped around a neck, and the other featuring a pendant with a grinning toothy mouth smoking a cigarette, designed to hang at the softest part of the throat.
ISBN 9791280579096. Swiss Institute/Lenz Press. hb. 180 pages. 145 colour, 25 b/w ills. 28 x 22 cm.
available