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Bruce Conner brass handles

Title
Bruce Conner brass handles / by Will Brown ; photographs by Jason Fulford ; text by Jean Conner from an interview with Will Brown.
Author
Will Brown (Group of artists), artist.
Publication
  • [Atlanta, Ga.] ; [New York, N.Y.] : J&L Books Inc [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Fulford, Jason
  • Conner, Jean
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 17 x 24 cm
Summary
"Artist and filmmaker Bruce Conner's (1933-2008) mobility was severely limited for the last five years of his life, when he rarely left the San Francisco home he shared with his wife, Jean. To aid in his physical navigation of its spaces, he worked with assistants to install a succession of solid brass handles in each and every room--surrounding the stove, down the boat-like stairwell, inside the recesses of the bedroom closet. At last count, the handles, a labyrinth of critical support, numbered 163. Still in place after his death in 2008, the handles are arguably Conner's last great work--at once physical and metaphysical, fragmentary and elusive, elegant and anonymous. Together, they draft the ghost architecture of Conner's final years, transforming the pedestrian into something altogether different"--
Subject
  • Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008 > Homes and haunts > Pictorial works
  • Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008
  • Brasswork > Pictorial works
  • Handles > Pictorial works
  • Brasswork
  • Handles
  • Homes
Genre/Form
  • Artists' books – 2016.
  • Pictorial works.
Note
  • "Will Brown is a collaborative project based in San Francisco, CA."--Colophon.
Call Number
JQE 17-18
ISBN
  • 9780989531184
  • 098953118X
OCLC
951509486
Author
Will Brown (Group of artists), artist.
Title
Bruce Conner brass handles / by Will Brown ; photographs by Jason Fulford ; text by Jean Conner from an interview with Will Brown.
Publisher
[Atlanta, Ga.] ; [New York, N.Y.] : J&L Books Inc [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Place of Publication
North America
United States Georgia Atlanta.
United States New York New York.
Added Author
Fulford, Jason, photographer.
Conner, Jean, writer of added text.
Research Call Number
JQE 17-18
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