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Bookworm: The Art of Rosamond Purcell | 
 enlarge | Author: Rosamond Purcell
Creator: Sven Birkerts
Publisher: Quantuck Lane
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 480373
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 1593720238
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.092
EAN: 9781593720230
ASIN: 1593720238
Publication Date: October 30, 2006
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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Product Description
Books are man-made artifacts designed to convey information. When they are inevitably invaded by forces of nature and decay, they become suggestive of an alternative literary universe. Noted photographer and collage artist Rosamond Purcell has been exploring this universe for the past thirty years, and in this extraordinarily beautiful collection, the first retrospective of her work, her images teach us to read in a new way. Here are two conjoined volumes transformed by a nesting mouse into a heap of disrupted plot and straw; a 19th century French economics text re-interpreted by foraging termites, and many other oddities from a fertile imagination. Bookworm's 125 color reproductions are imaginative evidence of those processes that render literal meaning irrelevant.
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rosamond Purcell January 9, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
The beauty of decay is sometimes surreal and mysterious. A musthave for booklovers and photographers.
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