Laura Schawelka : double issues /
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| Author / Creator: | Schawelka, Laura, artist. |
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| Imprint: | Esslingen : Edition Cantz, [2018] ©2018 |
| Description: | 119 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Language: | German English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11770611 |
| Summary: | In her often space-consuming installations, Laura Schawelka makes use of photography, video, and sculpture in a multilayered dialog in which traditional definitions such as subject, image content, or image carrier are called into question. Images are shown as larger than life or miniaturized; they become backgrounds or are equipped with props. In her latest work, the artist focuses on the role of photography in the development of modern consumer society--from the first department stores in Paris to the present day. In doing so, she shines a light on online trade, among other things: What does it mean if goods are only communicated through other goods, computers, cell phones, tablets--in short, screens? If feeling something in a store is replaced by swiping on a touchscreen? If this distance, this withholding of the genuine object, is precisely what prompts the desire for it in the first place? |
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| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rheim, Germany, 10 October 2018-6 January 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 119 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783947563241 3947563248 |
