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PUBLISHER
Deitch Projects

BOOK FORMAT
Hardback, 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 50 color.

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Pub Date
Out of print

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 128   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780977868605 TRADE
List Price: $30.00 CDN $35.00

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Tauba Auerbach: How To Spell the Alphabet

Text by Tauba Auerbach.

How arbitrary are the marks, analog and digital, used to express language, and where do they begin to muck it all up? This first book from Tauba Auerbach, Yes and Not Yes features over 20 new paintings and drawings that spring from those questions. They offer an excellent if roundabout answer: while letters are largely arbitrary, they are rich with abstract beauty and conceptual depth. In razor-sharp execution--which reveals their training as a sign painter--Auerbach's works on panel and paper update the abstract conceptual tradition, while retaining its intellectual rigor. Uppercase Insides and Numeral Insides recall Russian Suprematism, and, upon further contemplation, turn out to be just what their titles call them. Works based on signal flags and the Ugaritic Alphabet--an extinct language from Syria, 1300 B.C.--confirm that puzzlement is part of the desired effect here. Where direct exchange between sign and meaning is impossible, the beauty of the symbol comes to the fore.
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Pub Date: 4/21/2020
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