Wim Delvoye: Cloaca - New & Improved
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Essays by Georges Bataille, Dan Cameron, Salvador Dalí, Milan Kundera, Domique Laporte, Gerardo Mosquera, Dieter Roelstraete, Peter Sloterdijk and Peter Bexte.
Named for the ancient sewer in Rome, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye's new and improved "Cloaca" is a room-sized shit-making machine whose bowels process two meals a day as well as a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy, hi-lo culture, the aesthetics of the ugly and disgusting, man as machine and vice-versa. Many of these same concerns are processed in Delvoye's other work, including a life-sized carved walnut replica of a cement truck, a wood cabinet stocked with 32 circular saw blades painted with scenes in Delft China blue, and a herd of pigs tatooed by Antwerp's finest needle-men. Feces and other anal subjects are parsed in accompanying essays by such luminaries as Milan Kundera, Gerardo Mosquera, Dan Cameron, Georges Bataille, and Salvador Dali.
PUBLISHED BY: Rectapublishers
FORMAT: Hardcover, 9.25 x 12 in. / 152 pgs / 143 color.
ISBN: 9789090153872 ISBN10: 909015387X
PUBLICATION DATE: 02/02/2002
AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies.
Bookseller Price Code: TRADE
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