& Milk : Today is Just a Copy of Yesterday
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • color
  • 15 x 22.7 cm.
  • [64] pp.
  • edition size 800
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3851600363

& Milk : Today is Just a Copy of Yesterday

Jonathan Monk

& Milk : Today is Just a Copy of Yesterday

description

In a play on the classic artist's book by Edward Ruscha, Various Small Fires and Milk, a glass of milk is the demonstrative subject of this little book. An initial slide of the glass was duplicated, a duplicate was made of that duplicate, and so on, until there were 51 generations of the original. Matters become complicated when one slide is made from another; new conditions and patterns emerge that can hardly be anticipated. With each generation, the reproduction loses some information, the colors change, definition and resolution suffer, and even the image area itself begins to change. & Milk is a fascinating piece, as well as a fun flip book that appeals to anyone interested in matters of regeneration, duplication, temporality or enjoys plays on Ruscha's work. Essay by Fotolabor Kadmon in German and English.

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. 88 - 91.
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