Research Catalog

Title

From arachnophobia to arachnophilia / Tomás Saraceno.

Author

Saraceno, Tomás, 1973-

Publication

[New York, New York] : Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 2022.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Castleberry, May
• Miller, Leslie, 1957-
• Stonehouse, Mark
• Tamabayashi, Chisato, 1975-
• Tomlinson, Mark, 1955-
• Van der Merwe, Darren
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library Council, publisher.

Description

18 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations; 43 cm

Subject

• Spiders in art
• Spider webs in art
• Artists' books

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
• Toy and movable books.
• Pop-up books.
• Artists' books.

Note

• "Saraceno designed and produced this volume in collaboration with book artist Chisato Tamabayashi, in London; Studio Tomás Saraceno and the Arachnophilia community in Berlin; and May Castleberry, editor of Contemporary Editions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, who organized this publication of MoMA's Library Council. Tamabayashi hand-cut and machine-cut all five scenes in the book, with the help of Hisao Sato, while Hannah Tamabayashi tested each scene. The constellation, museum, and forest pages, as well as the background for the underwater scene, were printed in silk screen by Darren van der Merwe with Chisato Tamabayashi in London. The layers and details for the underwater scene were printed by Mark Stonehouse, artist printmaker, London. The cover and text pages were designed by Studio Tomás Saraceno and Leslie Miller at the Grenfell Press, New York, and Miller also printed the text by letterpress. The book ... was hand-bound and stamped by Mark Tomlinson in Easthampton, Massachusetts."--Colophon.
• The Argentine-born and Berlin-based artist, architect, and theorist Tom̀s Saraceno has designed an artist's book focused on the environmental and perceptual qualities of spiders and their webs. The atlas-sized book contains five artist-designed, hand-cut, hand-printed pop-up scenes creating a small theater of marvels. From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia was designed and created by Tom̀s Saraceno in Berlin. This limited-edition publication appears in a series of artist's books published by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This volume is intended to draw attention to spiders, their webs, and our shared environment through the participatory and sculptural form of the pop-up book. The book features five pop-up scenes including a spider attached by a filament to its web; a spider and its web in a museum building, not far from a human spectator; a constellation connected to web-like threads, as cosmic arachnid architecture; an enchanted cobwebbed forest; and a layered image of diving bell spiders, beings that spend most of their lives underwater. As the planet faces the mass extinction of spiders, insects, and other invertebrates, with enormous environmental consequences, Saraceno's project encourages new threads of connectivity to move us from arachnophobia to arachnophilia. -- Publisher's description.
• Errata slip laid in.
• Issued in a slipcase.
• "Printed in an edition of 165 copies, 125 of which are reserved for the Museum and the members of the Library Council, and 40 for the artist and the collaborators."--Colophon.

Binding (note)

• The book is hand-bound in white cloth with silkscreen printing of title and artist's name in black ink and an insert in the middle of the front cover of a tarot card printed in letterpress.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2022 23-106

OCLC

1345556233

Author

Saraceno, Tomás, 1973- book artist.

Title

From arachnophobia to arachnophilia / Tomás Saraceno.

Publisher

[New York, New York] : Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 2022.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

sheet

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 45, signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.

Binding

The book is hand-bound in white cloth with silkscreen printing of title and artist's name in black ink and an insert in the middle of the front cover of a tarot card printed in letterpress.

Place of Publication

United States New York

Added Author

Castleberry, May, editor.

Miller, Leslie, 1957- printer, book designer.

Stonehouse, Mark, book artist.

Tamabayashi, Chisato, 1975- book artist.

Tomlinson, Mark, 1955- binder.

Van der Merwe, Darren, printer.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library Council, publisher.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2022 23-106