Lost volume : a catalogue of disasters
Artist's Book
1993 (published)
1993 (published)
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A number of unlikely objects appear to have been pressed between the pages of this book: a bugle, a starfish, a light bulb, toy soldiers, a paint-tube that oozes a dark stain across the paper. These random items have left their imprints on the book's pages, inviting the reader to touch the apparently embossed paper, but there is nothing to feel: the objects and their imprints are trompe-l’oeil photographs.
Parker crushed each item in a press between sheets of paper and then had the results photographed, inviting the reader to share her fascination with the acts of destruction and transformation. The objects are shown pre-crushed in a table of contents, but confusingly not all of the items in the contents actually appear in the book.
A squashed spoon is attached to the cover by wire, like a bookmark, and has been pressed onto the book's covering boards to create a blind relief print.
NAL copy is no. 10 in a special edition of 30 signed and numbered copies.
Parker crushed each item in a press between sheets of paper and then had the results photographed, inviting the reader to share her fascination with the acts of destruction and transformation. The objects are shown pre-crushed in a table of contents, but confusingly not all of the items in the contents actually appear in the book.
A squashed spoon is attached to the cover by wire, like a bookmark, and has been pressed onto the book's covering boards to create a blind relief print.
NAL copy is no. 10 in a special edition of 30 signed and numbered copies.
Object details
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| Title | Lost volume : a catalogue of disasters |
| Brief description | Artist's book, 'Lost volume: a catalogue of disasters', by Cornelia Parker, Bookworks, London, 1993 |
| Physical description | Artist's book consisting of black and white photographs of crushed objects and the impressions made by them on paper pressed onto them. Crushed silver spoon attached to back cover. The spoon has been pressed onto the covers in order to obtain a blind relief print. Issued in a fold-out box and sealed with a magnetic strip. Illustrated endpapers. Published by Book Works in an edition of 500 copies, with a special edition of 30 signed and numbered copies 36 pages |
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| Summary | A number of unlikely objects appear to have been pressed between the pages of this book: a bugle, a starfish, a light bulb, toy soldiers, a paint-tube that oozes a dark stain across the paper. These random items have left their imprints on the book's pages, inviting the reader to touch the apparently embossed paper, but there is nothing to feel: the objects and their imprints are trompe-l’oeil photographs. Parker crushed each item in a press between sheets of paper and then had the results photographed, inviting the reader to share her fascination with the acts of destruction and transformation. The objects are shown pre-crushed in a table of contents, but confusingly not all of the items in the contents actually appear in the book. A squashed spoon is attached to the cover by wire, like a bookmark, and has been pressed onto the book's covering boards to create a blind relief print. NAL copy is no. 10 in a special edition of 30 signed and numbered copies. |
| Other number | X930121 - NAL Pressmark |
| Collection | |
| Library number | 38041993108117 |
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| Record created | March 4, 2014 |
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