Marianne Vitale: Train Wreck
Marianne Vitale: Train Wreck
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Marianne Vitale: Train Wreck is the artist's wry look at the infancy of the American railroad, an age mythologized even in its own time as a period of industrial progress and the heroic conquest of the American frontier. But this progress was fitfully achieved, punctuated by incredible, shocking disasters. In a new artist's book, New York-based artist Marianne Vitale (born 1973) reproduces black-and-white archival photographs of train wreckage on soft, plastic pages, creating an incongruous merger of content and container in a sculptural, compulsively tactile object. Each of the waterproof, pliable plastic pages of this book features a different locomotive carcass or caboose skeleton for readers to re-contort at their leisure. The contrast between the indestructibility of this playtime "bath" book and its imagery depicting the tragic frailty of industrial America's iron workhorses is at once striking and amusing.
Author: Marianne Vitale
Publisher: Kiito-San
Published: 01/26/2016
Pages: 10
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 10.70h x 10.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780984721061
Author: Marianne Vitale
Publisher: Kiito-San
Published: 01/26/2016
Pages: 10
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 10.70h x 10.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780984721061