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The Museum of Drawers 1970-1977. Five Hundred Works of Modern Art.
Distel, Herbert. Ed(S): Kramer, Thomas
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Hardback. The Museum of Drawers is the world's smallest museum of twentieth-century art. Includes original art works by 508 artists, including Beuys, Duchamp, Picasso and Warhol Editor(s): Kramer, Thomas. Num Pages: 184 pages, 533 col., 17 b&w. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 200 x 18. Weight in Grams: 907.
The Museum of Drawers is the world's smallest museum of twentieth-century art. This unique piece has been conceived and put together by the Swiss-born artist Herbert Distel in 1970-77. It consists of an old cabinet made to hold reels of sewing silk whose twenty drawers each contain twenty-five compartments. Each of the 500 compartments houses an original miniature work of art, many of which were made especially for the Museum of Drawers. The list of artists represented includes such influential pioneers as Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Following a first presentation as ... Read more
The Museum of Drawers is the world's smallest museum of twentieth-century art. This unique piece has been conceived and put together by the Swiss-born artist Herbert Distel in 1970-77. It consists of an old cabinet made to hold reels of sewing silk whose twenty drawers each contain twenty-five compartments. Each of the 500 compartments houses an original miniature work of art, many of which were made especially for the Museum of Drawers. The list of artists represented includes such influential pioneers as Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Following a first presentation as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Switzerland
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783858813336
SKU
V9783858813336
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About Distel, Herbert. Ed(S): Kramer, Thomas
Herbert Distel, born 1942 in Bern, Switzerland, is an artist and the curator of the Museum of Drawers. His work includes painting, sculpture, conceptual art, film, video and audio art. He lives and works in Austria. Thomas Kramer has been managing director and chief editor of Scheidegger & Spiess Publishers since 2006.
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