| Titre : | Paperwork and the will of capital |
| Auteurs : | Taryn Simon, Auteur ; Kate Fowle, Auteur ; Nicholas Kulish, Auteur ; Hanan Al-Shaykh, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2015 |
| Autre Editeur : | New York : Gagosian Gallery |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-3-7757-4157-6 |
| Format : | 1 vol. (198 p.) / relié, ill. coul. / 34 cm |
| Note générale : | biogr. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | B (Monographies) |
| Catégories : | FLEUR ; INVENTAIRE ; POLITIQUE ; SIMON Taryn |
| Résumé : |
La galerie Gagosian expose une série d'oeuvres de Taryn Simon, présentées à la Biennale de Venise de 2015, pour lesquelles elle s'est intéressée aux compositions florales servant de décorum à la signature d'accords et traités politiques ou économiques.
In Paperwork and the Will of Capital, Simon examines accords, treaties, and decrees drafted to influence systems of governance and economics, from nuclear armament to oil deals and diamond trading. All involve the countries present at the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, which addressed the globalization of economics after World War II, leading to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. In images of the signings of these documents, powerful men flank floral centerpieces designed to underscore the importance of the parties present. Simon’s photographs of the recreated centerpieces from these signings, together with their stories, underscore how the stagecraft of political and economic power is created, performed, marketed, and maintained. Each of Simon’s recreations of these floral arrangements represents an “impossible bouquet”—a concept that emerged in Dutch still-life painting parallel to the country’s seventeenth-century economic boom, which ushered in the development of modern capitalism. Then, the impossible bouquet was an artificial fantasy of flowers that could never bloom naturally in the same season and geographic location. Now the fantasy is made possible—both in the original signings and in Simon’s photographs—by the global consumer market. |
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| Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21361 | B / SIM | Livre | Centre de documentation | Monographies | Exclu du prêt |