Private Sammler zeigen, wo es lang geht.
Behind the Personal Library: Collectors Creating the Canon
im Center for Book Arts, New York vom 11. Oktober bis 20. Dezember 2014
Eine Ausstellung von Alexander Campos, zusammen mit Johanna Drucker (UCLA), Jae Jennifer Rossman (Yale) und Tony White (MICA) über folgende Sammlungen:
Philip E. Aarons & Shelley Fox Aarons (NY)
Mary Austin (CA)
Duke Collier (MA)
Jack Ginsberg (SüdAfrica)
Arthur Jaffe (FL)
Monica Oppen (Australien)
Barbara Pascal (CA)
Robert Ruben (NY)
Marvin & Ruth Sackner (FL)
Julia Vermes (Schweiz)
Francis H. William (MA/NY)
Martha Wilson (NY)
Estate of Tony Zwicker (CT)
Behind the Personal Library: Collectors Creating the Canon considers the influence of private collectors on the critical dialogue in the field of book arts. Rather than curating the works around a central theme, the goal of this exhibition is to examine works in these collections that have become seminal artworks in the field at large, thus becoming influential to establishing a canon. The exhibition also analyzes the collectors themselves: how they came to collect books, what drove them to continue collecting, whether they consciously built and curated their collections, and how these factors influenced and informed artist bookmaking practices. On top of continuing the conversation of the book arts canon, Behind the Personal Library is a walk down memory lane with the Center for Book Arts. Many of the works and artists in this show are coming full circle, having exhibited at the Center previously.
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