Illastrations : 1-135, 394-338 and 300, 323, 293, 234, 275, 306, 239, 196, 252, 158, 172, 170, 195, 138 /
"'Illastrations' is a facsimile sketchbook that serves as a guide to the visionary work of the artist Jason Rhoades (1965-2006). Originally created in the late 1990s, the book's release is occasioned by two concurrent exhibitions of Rhoades' work at Hauser & Wirth in Los...
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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[Zurich, Switzerland?] :
Hauser & Wirth Publishers,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "'Illastrations' is a facsimile sketchbook that serves as a guide to the visionary work of the artist Jason Rhoades (1965-2006). Originally created in the late 1990s, the book's release is occasioned by two concurrent exhibitions of Rhoades' work at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles and New York, 'DRIVE' and 'DRIVE II'. A leading figure in the international art world, Rhoades worked on an architectural scale to create immersive sculptures that were designed as dynamic systems to explore and communicate life's questions. Networked through his epic installations were packets of information--subjects, concepts, works of art by Rhoades and others, personal references--that this book illustrates. Organized by keyword in a rough alphabetical and numerical order, 205 didactic cartoons depict everything from 'abstraction,' 'curator' and 'Marcel Duchamp' to 'donut,' 'asshole' and 'unfair,' revealing the imaginative ways in which Rhoades processed the world ... "--From Art Plugged website. |
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| Item Description: | "Facsimile sketchbook of drawings, undated. Original given as a gift from Rhoades and his wife, artist Rachel Khedoori, to their friend and patron Iwan Wirth"--Colophon. |
| Physical Description: | 120 unnumbered leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm |
| ISBN: | 9783907493014 390749301X |