The Blind Merchant
Language: English
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2016
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Daedalus Books
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US$ 28.50
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Small remainder mark on bottom edge. A nice crisp copy.; Sternberg Press; B&W reproductions; 11.2 X 8.7 X 1.0 inches; 312 pages Near Fine No dust jacket as issued.
Seller Inventory # 339820
- Title
- The Blind Merchant
- Author
- Rosen, Roee
- Publisher
- Sternberg Press, Berlin
- Publication year
- 2016
- Dust jacket
- No Dust Jacket As Issued
- Binding
- Flexicover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 395679186X
- ISBN 13
- 9783956791864
- Seller catalogs
- Art/Art Theory/Art History/Decorative Arts
An artist book juxtaposing text and image, history and its revision, The Blind Merchant was produced from 1989 to 1991. The work is composed of three elements: the complete text of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice; a parasitical text written by Roee Rosen that runs alongside the play, adopting the perspective of the principal antagonist Shylock, the Jewish moneylender; and 145 drawings that present an alternative approach to the drama's staging and casting of charactersShylock is depicted as the blind merchant with drawings made by the artist while blindfolded.
The book is also telling of its time, produced at the moment when the idea of originality was up for question, the subaltern was asked to speak, and just before Silicon Valley took over our imaginations. A compelling superimposition of Shakespeare, The Blind Merchant shows that classic stories are still open for new angles of approach that reflect the times of its reading.
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