READYMADES GEB: Roadside American Artifacts - Hardcover

Brouws, Jeff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811836770 ISBN 13: 9780811836777

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 1900

Synopsis

Book by Jeff Brouws

About this title

Críticas:

"Readymades: American Roadside Artifacts" is a catalog of ordinary objects found along the roadside that represent everyday America. Those objects are shown in 274 color photos by Jeff Brouws, with essays and commentary by several contributors. The pages of this chunky. little book open, to reveal abandoned gasoline stations and abandoned drive-in movies, some whose silver screens have been worn to their bare bones. Everything in this book appears abandoned, as no people are in sight. However, there are plenty of partially painted pickup trucks, freshly painted houses (in lavender, turquoise, fuchsia, fire-engine red and bubble-gum pink) and railroad freight cars woefully in need of paint. Signs of various types - on poles, individual letters affixed over doorways, and faded paint on walls - document daily life as they identify motels, bowling alleys, coffee shops, bus depots and locksmiths. Signs point the way to "Quality Parts," "Immediate Marriage" and "Useable Materials" - whatever they are - just as "Readymades" leads readers to unusual views of American life found off the interstate and just down the road a piece. - Chicago Tribune

Reseña del editor:

Readymades is a photographic exploration of the structures, signs, and symbols of a rapidly disappearing America. Like the "readymade" art conceived by Marcel Duchamp, the subjects of these photos are objects that might otherwise go unnoticed - partially painted pickup trucks and rusted, faded freight cars that resemble Mark Rothko paintings. The subtle and elegant beauty of abandoned drive in movie screens, white rectangular shapes in various states of decay, isolated and forlorn in neglected landscapes are another example of finding beauty in the derelict and discarded. The book pairs each selection of images with an essay by leading writers and cultural critics including Luc Sante, M. Mark, D.J. Waldie, Mark Frauenfelder, Diana Gaston, and Phil Patton. Packaged in an interesting and handy horizontal format, the images collected here present a new way of looking at vestiges of American culture that are at once familiar and increasingly rare.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0811836770
• ISBN 13: 9780811836777
• Binding: Tapa dura
• Number of pages: 270