Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (728 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374175306 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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We meet Lenore and Hal after their relationship has ended; that the relics of their life--spent in fits and starts of togetherness--are presented in a Valentine's Day auction catalog has the potential to strike a bitter chord. Best Books of the Month, February 2009: What is love? Artist Leanne Shapton may be the first person to answer this age-old question so persuasively, if not damn-near definitively. Her vision of love--that famously immaterial virtue--finds its best expression in the stuff of our daily lives. What comes across instead is that these items, ranging widely from gifts, postcards, and photos to conspiratorial notes and precious evidence of daily rituals, deserve to be cherished for the love they still so clearly honour. --Anne Bartholomew. Which, of course, may not be as
Sarah E Perrich said This book is a clever conceit, and that's about. This book is a clever conceit, and that's about it. It scratched very few of my itches, as a reader. For bang for your buck, get yourself a few back issues of Found Magazine.. Five Stars dave cummings It arrived as advertised. "Material culture anthropology as romance" according to Alexandra Henshel. I love this so much. Yes, it is a novel written in the form of an auction catalog.She did something so amazing here, and did it so exquisitely well.It might seem like a gimmick, but it is so well done, it's past gimmick and into art.It's material culture as all, it's the objects of life showing the feelings, it's the culmination of our consumer society that a love story, with tingles and kisses and tears can be told, perfectly, thr
In Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morrisa very different yet equally original bookshe invites us to contemplate what is truly valuable, and to consider the art we make of our private lives.. Think of the collections of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Truman Capote, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Through photographs of the couple's personal effects -- the usual auction items (jewelry, fine art, and rare furniture) and the seemingly worthless (pajamas, Post-it notes, worn paperbacks) -- the story of a failed love affair vividly (and cleverly) emerges. A love story told in the form of an auction catalog. And a love story, in all its tenderness and struggle, emerges from the evidence that has been left behind, laid out for us to appraise and appreciate. In an earlier work, Was She Pretty?, Shapton, a talented artist and illustrator, subtly explored the seemingly simple yet powerfully
She is the art director of the New York Times op-ed page and cofounder of J&L Books, a nonprofit Publishing company specializing in new photography, art, and fiction. Leanne Shapton is an illustrator, writer, and publisher who was born in Toronto and now lives in New York. She is the author of Was She Pretty?