BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 11.25 x 8.75 in. / 88 pgs / 58 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/28/2017
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 137

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788434313590 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CDN $72.50

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In stock

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Francesc Torres: What Does History Know of Nail-Biting?

An artist's book by Francesc Torres.

Barcelona-born, New York–based artist Francesc Torres (born 1948), a pioneer of installation art, is one of the most important European artists of his generation. In What Does History Know of Nail-Biting, which borrows its subtitle from Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, the artist explores a body of work made by Harry Randall, a photographer and filmmaker who was one of 3,500 Americans who joined the International Brigades to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Many of the so-called Abraham Lincoln Brigade did not make it home, but Randall did. Forty-five minutes of 16mm film, shot by Randall between 1937 and 1938, becomes the material for Torres’ new limited-edition artist’s book, which explores what history looks like outside of concrete historical events, trying to capture the fragmentation and confusion that silently seeps through the official narratives of history.