The So-Called Utopia of the Centre Beaubourg: An Interpretation

Luca Frei, Albert Meister, "Gustave Affeulpin."

ISBN 10: 1870699998 / ISBN 13: 9781870699990

Published by Book Works and Casco: London, UK, and Utretcht, NL, 2007

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[FICTION]. Luca Frei, Albert Meister, "Gustave Affeulpin." "The So-Called Utopia of the Centre Beaubourg: An Interpretation." London, UK, and Utrecht, NL: Book Works and Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, 2007. Printed by Die Keure in Bruges, BE. English language. Glossy softcover with French flaps. Text with black and white illustrations. 8 x 5 x 1 in. 20 x 12 x 2 cm. 12 oz. 178 pp., [5]. Book block is wavy due to water damage. Sticker residue and wear on covers. Tidelines seen on inside front cover, on several pages, and on bottom of page block. Price in pencil on first page. Text clean. Intact, readable. A reading copy. Acceptable to Fair. ISBN: 9781870699990."Appearing under the pseudonym Gustave Affeulpin in 1976, and coinciding with the inauguration of the Centre Beaubourg in Paris, Albert Meister?s fictional text La soi-disant utopie du centre Beaubourg imagines a radical libertarian space submerged beneath the newly erected center-piece of French Culture. In a world turned upside down, the seventy-six storeys submerged beneath the official centre for culture provide a platform for alternative modes of work and creation. Reporting, in sometimes hysterical, sometimes more poetic language, and with tongue firmly in cheek, the narrator recounts the vacillations of free organisation, in a satire that never takes its eye of the main target: state sponsored culture.This is the first translation and publication of La soi-disant utopie du centre Beaubourg in English, a project undertaken by the artist Luca Frei as an attempt to both revitalise a significant cultural treatise incorporating many elements of Meister?s sociological thinking, and to reflect upon the subjective role of the artist in transferring ideas from one cultural framework and era to another.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The So-Called Utopia of the Centre Beaubourg: An Interpretation
• Publisher: Book Works and Casco: London, UK, and Utretcht, NL
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1870699998
• ISBN 13: 9781870699990
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
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Read once. In very good condition. No marks on pages.