art book cologne GmbH & Co. KG
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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
Year | 2014 |
Cover | Hardcover |
Language | English |
ISBN | 978-3-7757-3865-1 |
Pages | 628 |
Weight | 2660 g |
Illustrations | with 345 ills |
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Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | National Gallery of Denmark |
Article ID | art-14190 |
The “family album” of this successful Danish-Norwegian duo, characteristically self-ironic and irreverent.
The artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset have been collecting photos for their ever-expanding image archive, The Incidental Self, throughout their twenty-year collaboration. These intimate photos have previously been shown at galleries, museums, and biennials in Europe and Asia, but are now for the first time compiled in an image-only publication, titled Biography.
The book includes hundreds of private snapshots that span many events and locations, offering a glimpse of the artists’ studio, working processes, exhibitions, travels, parties, friendships, relationships, and inspirations. The contents, ranging from personal photos to those taken by friends, studio assistants, professional photographers, family, and colleagues, give the impression of an oversized and rather absurd family photo album, focussing on a masculine reality.
As a whole, the selection of images creates a fluid perception of what today can be called a “self.”