Various Fires and Four Running Boys
  • artists' book
  • wrappers with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • color
  • 17.8 x 14 cm.
  • [28] pp.
  • edition size 500
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9783037461426

Various Fires and Four Running Boys

Thomas Galler

Various Fires and Four Running Boys

description

Artists' book parody of Edward Ruscha's "Various Small Fires and Milk," refreshed with appropriated images, in color, of natural disasters, man-made disasters, and riots each containing fires.

"Thomas Galler work revolves around issues of media representation, the importance of authorship and transfer of found materials and reflects an critical social attitude of products and phenomena of mass culture. An important group of paintings collected by the artist in the collection of newspaper since 1999, pictures and images from magazines are the "Fires" by firing shots from the political reporting. These represent trouble spots and conflicts, which happened the global, societal patterns have changed. With 'Various Fires' Thomas Galler presents an artist's publication with a selection of 21 images from this collection, show the fires around the globe. Both tracks, as well as size and shape of the ligament relate to the legendary book 'Various Small Fires' by Ed Rucha from 1964." -- translated publisher's statement.

references

"Various Small Books : Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha" by Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton, Hermann Zschiegner, Phil Taylor, Mark Rawlinson. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2013, pp. 198 - 199.
Zürich, Switzerland: Edition Fink,
Permalink
out of stock
Let us know if you’d like to be notified if this item becomes available: send us an email.