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Wouldn't it be nice-- : --wishful thinking in art and design : [exhibition

Title
Wouldn't it be nice-- : --wishful thinking in art and design : [exhibition / curated by Emily King and Katya García-Antón, in collaboration with Christian Brändle].
Publication
Geneva : Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève ; Zurich : [Distributed by] JRP Ringier, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • King, Emily.
  • García-Antón, Katya.
  • Brändle, Christian, 1969-
  • Centre d'art contemporain (Geneva, Switzerland)
Description
299 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm
Summary
Writing about the New York-based design/publishing collective Dexter Sinister, Anthony Huberman once contextualized their practice as part of a "...contemporary condition of multiplicity, for a present moment that finds itself overcrowded with so many identities, markets, information and tasks that the only solution is to juggle many of them at once and slash them together." Wouldn't It Be Nice presents a series of specially commissioned projects between contemporary artists and designers who are thriving in the "slashed together" world Huberman describes. A well-considered limited edition volume, it includes interviews with such prescient practitioners as Dexter Sinister, Bless, Alicia Framis, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Martí Guixé, Tobias Rehberger and Superflex, with an essay by design historian Emily King. This highly collectable Graphic Thought Facility-designed publication includes a self-adhesive purse/multiple by Bless.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern
  • Kunst > Design > Ausstellung > Genf <2008>
  • Design > Kunst > Ausstellung > Genf <2008>
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Appears in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Oct. 26 - Dec. 16, 2007, at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Feb. 8-May 25, 2008, and at Somerset House, London, Sept.-Dec., 2008.
  • Several unpaginated blank white leaves ; cover has a zippered black pouch glued on.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Wouldn't it be nice... -- Performative shifts in art and design -- Jurgen Bey -- Bless -- Dexter Sinister -- Dunne & Raby and Michael Anastassiades -- Alicia Framis -- Martino Gamper -- Ryan Gander -- Ryan Gander -- Martí Guixé -- Tobias Rehberger -- Superflex.
ISBN
  • 9783905829242
  • 390582924X
OCLC
  • ocn251932186
  • 251932186
  • SCSB-1484510
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library