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About the Book
Christian Marclay uses a range of media?video, sculpture, installation, and performance?to address the ways that music and sound impact our experience of the world. While he frequently uses photograms and found images in his work, what is not widely known is the extent to which photography has become a tool of choice. In Shuffle, he has extensively photographed the appearance of musical notation in the world: on shop awnings, chocolate tins, T-shirts, underwear, and other unexpected places. The work reveals Marclay, a prominent figure in contemporary art, to be an obsessive photographic note-taker with a witty flair for uncovering clue like music hidden in the landscape and adorning our world. All around us, it seems, are musical notes just waiting to be discovered and played. Each of these images is presented on an individual card, and the entire deck is enclosed in a distinctive package. Part Fluxus box, part John Cage-ian "chance operation" or Eames House of Cards, the deck offers a compelling, serendipity-driven visual experience, but is also intended to be used as a spontaneous musical score. Shuffle includes an explanation and instructions by Marclay.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9781597110389
EAN: 9781597110389
Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2007
Binding: PAPERBACK
Continuations: English
Height: 171 mm
No of Pages: 75
Series Title: English
Sub Title: Shuffle
ISBN-10: 1597110388
Publisher: Aperture
Acedemic Level: English
Book Type: English
Depth: 38
Language: English
Returnable: N
Spine Width: 35 mm
Width: 133 mm