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| Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...on Collecting | | Author: | Ingrid Schaffner | ISBN: | 091636559X | Format: | Handover | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | | | | | | | | Book Review | | |
Book Description Including such artists as Janine Antoni, Willie Coles, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Christian Marclay, Alan Rath, Jason Rhoades, Kay Rosen, Jessica Stockholder, and Lisa Yuskavage, among many others, "Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting" examines the collecting impulse in its various manifestations, raising fundamental questions about why we collect and whether it matters what we collect. Surprising and eccentric, this publication features three utterly different collections: "Pictures"(and other contemporary art objects) from the renowned Robert Shiffler Foundation in Ohio; the stunningly beautiful "Patents",a selection of the Smithsonian's collection of patent models submitted to the US Patent Office in the 19th century; and finally "Monkeys", from a private, New York-based collection of approximately 1,600 sock monkeys toys. Running the gamut from high art to the unmapped inspirations hidden in the dregs of American culture, "Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting" draws on such diverse talents as Ingrid Schaffner--adjunct curator at ICA Philadelphia--and artist Arne Svenson, whose photographs of the sock monkeys combine the haunting and the beautiful.
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...on Collecting FROM THE PUBLISHER "Pictures, Patents, Monkeys and More...On Collecting examines the collecting impulse in three different manifestations. The exhibition includes artworks from the Robert J. Shiffler Foundation's art collection, Greenville, Ohio, by Janine Antoni, Karen Finley, Four Walls, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gregory Green, Perry Hoberman, Charles LeDray, Christian Marclay, Joel Otterson, Paul Ramirez-Jonas, Jason Rhoades, Matthew Ritchie, Kay Rosen, Lorna Simpson, Annie Sprinkle, Jessica Stockholder, Tony Tasset, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Brian Tolle, Carrie Mae Weems, Sue Williams, and Fred Wilson; patent models from the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and one hundred sock monkeys from a private collection. The book features essays by curator Ingrid Schaffner, artist Fred Wilson, and psychoanalyst Werner Muensterberger."--BOOK JACKET.
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