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In the satirical tradition of Jonathan Swift, Yto Barrada's artist book is a guide humbly submitted by an anonymous bureaucrat, zealously advising his readers on how to prepare their city for a visit by a high-ranking official. Seemingly reasonable at first, these directives gradually begin to suggest something amiss behind the patriotic Potemkin facades. Millions of years ago, today's Sahara desert was a tropical paradise. Today, the arid space between Morocco's Atlas Mountains and the desert are home to a hardscrabble cottage industry of excavating, preparing, forging, and selling fossils. Yto Barrada has explored this unique landscape though years of research, photographs, films and objects.
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A guide to trees for governors and gardeners, Yto Barrada
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2016,
- État du livre
- Abîmé
- Prix
- 4,99 €
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- Titre
- A guide to trees for governors and gardeners
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Yto Barrada
- Éditeur
- Buchhandlung Walther König
- Publié
- 2016
- ISBN10
- 3960980299
- ISBN13
- 9783960980292
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Art / Culture
- Évaluation
- 3,5 sur 5
- Description
- In the satirical tradition of Jonathan Swift, Yto Barrada's artist book is a guide humbly submitted by an anonymous bureaucrat, zealously advising his readers on how to prepare their city for a visit by a high-ranking official. Seemingly reasonable at first, these directives gradually begin to suggest something amiss behind the patriotic Potemkin facades. Millions of years ago, today's Sahara desert was a tropical paradise. Today, the arid space between Morocco's Atlas Mountains and the desert are home to a hardscrabble cottage industry of excavating, preparing, forging, and selling fossils. Yto Barrada has explored this unique landscape though years of research, photographs, films and objects.