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Badlands Unlimited/Neon

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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 168 pgs / 50 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 142   

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Paul Chan: Odysseus and The Bathers

Foreword by Dimitris Daskalopoulos. Text by Sam Thorne, Paul Chan. Interview with Nikolaos Stampolidis, Elina Kountouri. Translation by Alexandra Pappas.

Paul Chan: Odysseus and The Bathers

What makes Odysseus such a contemporary character even after 2,000 years? Why is the quality that Homer attributes to him (polytropos, which loosely translates as “cunning” or “many-sided”) so evocative of questions that bind art and reason, creativity and ethics, freedom and conformity?

Odysseus and the Bathers documents the 2018 eponymous exhibition by the internationally acclaimed artist Paul Chan (born 1973) at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece. Inspired by the “polytropic” nature of Odysseus, Chan has created a body of work he calls “breathers”: kinetic sculptures that are unlike anything else in contemporary art. An essay by Chan explores the concept and history of polytropos and its relationship to what Marcel Duchamp called “the creative act.” This book also features an essay by curator Sam Thorne, a conversation between Nikolaos Stampolidis, Director of the Museum of Cycladic Art, and Elina Kountouri, Director of NEON, on the notion of “polytropism,” and fragments by the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides, newly translated by classicist Alexandra Pappas, which illuminate how Odysseus’ “cunning” echoes traditions of thinking in ancient philosophy.


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Paul Chan: Breathers

PAUL CHAN: BREATHERS

Walker Art Center

ISBN: 9781935963240
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Pub Date: 6/28/2022
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Paul Chan: Odysseus and The Bathers

PAUL CHAN: ODYSSEUS AND THE BATHERS

Badlands Unlimited/Neon

ISBN: 9781943263219
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Pub Date: 2/19/2019
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Paul Chan: Selected Works

PAUL CHAN: SELECTED WORKS

Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager

ISBN: 9783952397176
USD $35.00
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Pub Date: 7/31/2014
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Paul Chan: 2000 Words

PAUL CHAN: 2000 WORDS

DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art

ISBN: 9786185039080
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Pub Date: 11/30/2014
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Paul Chan: Selected Writings 2000-2014

PAUL CHAN: SELECTED WRITINGS 2000-2014

Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation/Badlands Unlimited

ISBN: 9783952397145
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Pub Date: 4/30/2014
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Paul Chan: New New Testament

PAUL CHAN: NEW NEW TESTAMENT

Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation/Badlands Unlimited

ISBN: 9783952397152
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Pub Date: 7/31/2014
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Paul Chan: The Essential and Incomplete Sade for Sade's Sake

PAUL CHAN: THE ESSENTIAL AND INCOMPLETE SADE FOR SADE'S SAKE

Badlands Unlimited

ISBN: 9781936440009
USD $39.95
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Pub Date: 11/30/2010
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Paul Chan: Sade for Fonts Sake

PAUL CHAN: SADE FOR FONTS SAKE

Badlands Unlimited/National Philistine

ISBN: 9781936440054
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Pub Date: 1/31/2011
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