Allan Sekula ship of fools; the Dockers museum - Hilde Van Gelder

ship of fools; the Dockers'museum

KORTE INHOUD

Sekula’s final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks. Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life (2010–2013). The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints which the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers’ Museum). Sekula dedicated this work to both historical and contemporary labor solidarity in and around the docks. At the time of his sad passing in the Summer of 2013, Allan Sekula was in the midst of collaborating on this publication with all four contributing authors: Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Alberto Toscano, and Hilde Van Gelder, each of whom he had asked to write essays. This volume, which includes a representative ensemble of images and objects that ...
2014Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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2014Uitgever: Universitaire Pers LeuvenReeks: Lieven Gevaert Series240 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9462700052ISBN-13: 9789462700055

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