A playful yet informative exploration of the Labyrinth from the hiding place of the minotaur to the floorplans of IKEA stores
ABOUT THE BOOK: A charming and erudite meander through the history of the Labyrinth from Renaissance gardens to the Las Vegas strip, video games to the structure of the inner ear
Formatted as a paperback reader with illustrations and pithy text on each page – you can enter the book at any point. Only $19.95!
Originally published in 2010, this is a BACKLIST BESTSELLER from Spector Books .
By Olaf Nicolai, Jan Wenzel. Translation by Sadie Plant.
“This book on labyrinths is wonderful! It enlarges the traditional catalog of labyrinths so much and so well, being itself labyrinthine,” remarked Jean-Luc Nancy, the French philosopher. Sadie Plant, author of Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture, has now translated Labyrinth into English. The starting point for this transcript of four lectures is a public art work that Olaf Nicolai installed in Paris in 1998. By exploring and combining a broad spectrum of topics that relate to the theme of the labyrinth, this book serves as both, a reference system to Nicolai’s work as well as an independent source book dealing with labyrinthian matter ranging from the minotaur to the floorplans of IKEA. Published in collaboration with Rollo Press.
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FORMAT: Hbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 320 pgs / 200 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $19.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $26.95 ISBN: 9783944669038 PUBLISHER: Spector Books/Rollo Press AVAILABLE: 12/1/2013 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA AFR ME
Published by Spector Books/Rollo Press. By Olaf Nicolai, Jan Wenzel. Translation by Sadie Plant.
“This book on labyrinths is wonderful! It enlarges the traditional catalog of labyrinths so much and so well, being itself labyrinthine,” remarked Jean-Luc Nancy, the French philosopher. Sadie Plant, author of Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture, has now translated Labyrinth into English. The starting point for this transcript of four lectures is a public art work that Olaf Nicolai installed in Paris in 1998. By exploring and combining a broad spectrum of topics that relate to the theme of the labyrinth, this book serves as both, a reference system to Nicolai’s work as well as an independent source book dealing with labyrinthian matter ranging from the minotaur to the floorplans of IKEA. Published in collaboration with Rollo Press.
