The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition
Mark Menjivar
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Description for The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
Artist Mark Menjivar was in an antique bookshop in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he found 4 four-leaf clovers pressed between the yellowed pages of an aged copy of 1000 Facts Worth Knowing. Their discovery beguiled Menjivar so much that he began a multiyear exploration into the concept of luck and its intersections with belief, culture, superstition, and tradition in people's lives. Menjivar has spent hours and days engaging people in airplanes, tattoo shops, bingo halls, international grocery stores, public parks, baseball stadiums, and voodoo shops--and out on the streets and in their homes. Along the way he documented his ... Read more
Artist Mark Menjivar was in an antique bookshop in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he found 4 four-leaf clovers pressed between the yellowed pages of an aged copy of 1000 Facts Worth Knowing. Their discovery beguiled Menjivar so much that he began a multiyear exploration into the concept of luck and its intersections with belief, culture, superstition, and tradition in people's lives. Menjivar has spent hours and days engaging people in airplanes, tattoo shops, bingo halls, international grocery stores, public parks, baseball stadiums, and voodoo shops--and out on the streets and in their homes. Along the way he documented his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Trinity University Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
540g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
San Antonio, United States
ISBN
9781595342492
SKU
V9781595342492
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Mark Menjivar
Mark Menjivar is an artist whose work explores diverse subjects through photography, stories, and found objects while emphasizing dialogue and collaboration. His work has been shown at venues across the country, including the Houston Center for Photography, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Wignall Museum of Art, the University of Wisconsin---Milwaukee, Baylor University, the Southwest School of Art, and ... Read more
Reviews for The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition
"Menjivar's project opens up the possibility, if only for a moment, to reflect on our own beliefs and traditions. And more importantly, it opens the potential to connect, through a tangible object, to the ethereal ideas that tie us and these symbols together."
Glasstire "In the few years since he started talking to people about their lucky objects and superstitious beliefs, ... Read more
Glasstire "In the few years since he started talking to people about their lucky objects and superstitious beliefs, ... Read more