John Sparagana

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Sleeping Beauty: A One-Artist DictionaryHardcover, 1 November 2008

Sleeping Beauty: A One-Artist Dictionary
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Part of Series
Project Tango: Artists and Writers Together
Part of Series
Project Tango
Print Length
136 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
1 Nov 2008
ISBN-10
0226035522
ISBN-13
9780226035529

Description

The dictionary. The ubiquitous high-gloss fashion ad. The fraught relationship between artist and critic. Sleeping Beauty ties these disparate strands of our everyday lives together only to strip away everything we thought we knew about each of them. A collaborative work by the artist John Sparagana and the critic Mieke Bal, this truly cutting-edge work takes the shape of a conversation between his creations--distressed, or "fatigued," magazine pages--and her words, imagining anew the relationships of image to text and of art to those who write about it.
Bal contributes twenty-six essays, one for each letter of the alphabet, which borrow their organizing principle from the dictionary but reach far beyond the utilitarian purpose of a reference volume. Each one enters deeply into Sparagana's work, illuminating concepts from Abstract to Zestful that inform, underlie, and lend meaning to the exquisitely ruined images he creates by crinkling glossy images from fashion magazines until their sheen disappears and they become soft and elastic. Unmooring the magazine page from its familiar context, these beautiful rags are rendered poetic by Sparagana's unique art of subtraction, which physically rubs away not only ink and material, but also transience and commercial usefulness.
Just as Sparagana's work intervenes in existing images, so, too, do Bal's explorations qualify existing concepts. But together, in this inaugural volume in the new series Project Tango: Artists and Writers Together, they have given rise to something wholly new: a prophetic one-artist dictionary that simultaneously reenvisions the untapped interactions of images with words and the potential forms of the book itself.

Product Details

Authors:
John SparaganaMieke Bal
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 November 2008
Dimensions:
23.88 x 29.21 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
0226035522
ISBN-13:
9780226035529
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago, IL
Pages:
136
Weight:
839.15 gm

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