Parallel Encyclopedia 1 (Reprint) — Batia Suter

60 

  • hardcover
  • 220 x 290 mm
  • 592 pages
  • ISBN: 978-94-9281-198-1

Published by Roma Publications

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(From ideabooks.nl)

Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, which she conceived between 2004 and 2007, contains a precise composition of numerous images taken solely from other books. Significant underlying themes expressed in the Amsterdam-based, Swiss artist’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they assume or become charged with new associative values. This is a reprint of Suter’s voluminous book, originally published in 2007 and covering a pictorial plethora of human history, science, philosophy, art, and culture.