Sophie Calle

 

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SOPHIE CALLE: BLIND
ACTES SUD
U.S. $130.00 | CAN $130
ISBN: 9782330000585 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 4/30/2012 | In stock

  

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SOPHIE CALLE: THE ADDRESS BOOK
SIGLIO
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ISBN: 9780979956294 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 10/31/2012 | Awaiting stock

   

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SOPHIE CALLE: TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
DIS VOIR/ACTES SUD
U.S. $125.00 | CAN $125
ISBN: 9782742768936 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 12/15/2007 | In stock

SOPHIE CALLE: DOUBLE GAME
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ISBN: 9781933045696 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 9/1/2007 | Not available

    

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SOPHIE CALLE
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
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ISBN: 9783883755922 | SDNR30
PUB DATE: 2/2/2003 | Not available

SOPHIE CALLE: DOUBLE GAME AND THE GOTHAM HANDBOOK
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ISBN: 9781900828062 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 1/2/2000 | Not available

Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle: Blind

Published by Actes Sud

With Blind, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle (born 1953) revisits three earlier works constructed around the idea of blindness. In “Les Aveugles” (“The Blind”), created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty; in 1991, in “La Couleur Aveugle” (“Blind Color”), she asked blind people about their imagination of perception and compared their descriptions to artists’ musings on the monochrome; “La Derničre Image” (“The Last Image”), produced in 2010 in Istanbul, involved questioning people who had lost their sight on the last image they could remember. By establishing a dialectic between the testimonies of several generations of blind people and Calle’s photographs based on these accounts, the artist offers readers a reflection on absence, on the loss of one sense and the compensation of another and on the notion of the visible and the invisible.

SOPHIE CALLE: BLIND
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Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself

Text by Sophie Calle.
Published by Dis Voir/Actes Sud

In this remarkable artist's book, French conceptual artist/provocateur Sophie Calle presents 107 outside interpretations of a "breakup" e-mail she received from her lover the day he ended their affair. Featuring a stamped pink metallic cover, multiple paper changes, special bound-in booklets, bright green envelopes containing DVDs and even Braille endpapers, it is a deeply poignant investigation of love and loss, published to coincide with the 2007 Venice Biennale--where Calle served as that fair's French representative. All of the interpreters of Calle's breakup letter were women, and each was asked to analyze the document according to her profession--so that a writer comments on its style, a justice issues judgment, a lawyer defends Calle's ex-lover, a psychoanalyst studies his psychology, a mediator tries to find a path towards reconciliation, a proofreader provides a literal edit of the text, etc. In addition, Calle asked a variety of performers, including Nathalie Dessay, Laurie Anderson and Carla Bruni, among others, to act the letter out. She filmed the singers and actresses and photographed the other contributors, so that each printed interpretation stands alongside at least one riveting image of its author, and some are also accompanied by digital documentation. The result is a fascinating study and a deeply moving experience--as well as an artwork in its own right. Already a collector's item, this is a universal document of how it feels to grieve for love.

SOPHIE CALLE: TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
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