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New New Testament

3.6/5 ( ratings)

"New New Testament" documents Paul Chan's monumental project "Volumes," a series of more than 1,000 paintings made out of dismantled book covers and the texts that complement each painting. "I began destroying books to paint on them, on weekends," Chan says. "Each cover seemed to call for different things; some expressionistic, others naturalistic, still others plainly monochrome. I never read the books I tore apart." A selection of "Volumes" premiered at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, in 2012, but "New New Testament" is the first time all the paintings have been united in a single book. Each painting evokes how books and works of art now exist in our digitally interconnected world chiefly as objects of search. The texts that accompany each painting are composed with bewildering combinations of phrases and lexical marks that reflect how historical distinctions between art, media and celebrity culture are rapidly dissolving.

Language: English

Pages: 1082

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation/Badlands Unlimited

Release: July 31, 2014

ISBN: 3952397156

ISBN 13: 9783952397152

New New Testament

3.6/5 ( ratings)

"New New Testament" documents Paul Chan's monumental project "Volumes," a series of more than 1,000 paintings made out of dismantled book covers and the texts that complement each painting. "I began destroying books to paint on them, on weekends," Chan says. "Each cover seemed to call for different things; some expressionistic, others naturalistic, still others plainly monochrome. I never read the books I tore apart." A selection of "Volumes" premiered at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, in 2012, but "New New Testament" is the first time all the paintings have been united in a single book. Each painting evokes how books and works of art now exist in our digitally interconnected world chiefly as objects of search. The texts that accompany each painting are composed with bewildering combinations of phrases and lexical marks that reflect how historical distinctions between art, media and celebrity culture are rapidly dissolving.

Language: English

Pages: 1082

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation/Badlands Unlimited

Release: July 31, 2014

ISBN: 3952397156

ISBN 13: 9783952397152

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