Research Catalog

Title

Foucault in : (205 words from Simeon Wade's manuscript 'Foucault in California') / by Olaf Nicolai.

Author

Nicolai, Olaf, 1962-

Publication

Amsterdam : Roma Publications ; [St. Gallen, Switzerland] : Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Benedetti, Lorenzo.
• Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, host institution, issuing body.
• Roma Publications (Firm), issuing body.

Description

121 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Michel Foucault was invited to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975. During his visit, Simeon Wade, who assisted and accompanied Foucault, persuaded him to join him and his partner, Michael Stoneman, on a trip to Death Valley and Zabriskie Point, where Foucault took LSD for the first time. Wade wrote about this experience in his unpublished manuscript Foucault in California. When Olaf Nicolai asked to use excerpts from the text for an artist's publication, he was permitted a maximum of 250 words. He selected 205 words from throughout the manuscript. Although the broader contents can only be guessed at, this abbreviated text is itself a trip."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Roma publication ; #332

Uniform Title

ROMA publication ; 332.

Alternative Title

That's a God-forsaken place; but it's beautiful, isn't it?

Subjects

• Nicolai, Olaf, 1962- > Exhibitions
• 20.54
• Artists' books (books)
• Wade, Simeon, 1940- > Foucault in California
• Words in art

Genre/Form

Artists' books (books).

Note

• Published on the occasion of Olaf Nicolai's exhibition "That's a God-forsaken place; but it's beautiful, isn't it?" held at Lokremise/Kunstmuseum St. Gallen from July 7-November 11, 2018, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti.
• Cover title.

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries