The Collections of Barbara Bloom

Bloom, Barbara; Dave Hickey; Susan Tallman

ISBN 10: 3865216218 / ISBN 13: 9783865216212

Published by Steidl & International Center of Photography, Gottingen & New York, 2008

About this Item

First edition, first printing. AS NEW hardcover in dust jacket in the publisher's shrink wrap. A retrospective monograph published to accompany an exhibition of work by Barbara Bloom, held at the International Center of Photography, NYC, in 2008. "Photographer, designer, and installation artist Barbara Bloom has built her career on questioning appearances, exploring the desire for possessions, and commenting on the act of collecting. The Collections of Barbara Bloom explores all aspects of her oeuvre, including works from past multimedia installations and newly made pieces, as well as objects from her vast personal archive of ephemera and advertisements." Essays by Dave Hickey and Susan Tallman. 272 pages; color illustrations throughout; 9.75 x 11.75 inches. Ships the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping may be more than quoted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collections of Barbara Bloom
• Publisher: Steidl & International Center of Photography, Gottingen & New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3865216218
• ISBN 13: 9783865216212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

This volume assesses a wonderful body of work that encompasses installations, films, artist's books and specimens from the artist's vast archives of ephemera. Like Marcel Broodthaers and Susan Hiller, Bloom has a creative attraction toward taxonomy and museology: the installation "Greed" (1988), for instance, is comprised of a chair, an empty frame and a photograph of a museum gallery with a seated guard. An example of one of her own collections is a complete set of Vladimir Nabokov's writings for which Bloom redesigned all of the book covers, referring both to herself and Nabokov as collectors (he obsessively collected editions of his own books) and in the process interposing herself as artist. In some cases, Bloom revisits previous installations to add new elements, resisting and upsetting the orderliness of a conventional artistic chronology. The Collections of Barbara Bloom includes essays by Dave Hickey and Susan Tallman and expands a project developed as part of Bloom's Wexner Art Center Residency Award in 1998.
Born in Los Angeles in 1951, Barbara Bloom is a renowned conceptual artist whose intricately crafted installations and witty artist's books have been exhibited internationally. She attended Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, and studied with John Baldessari at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. She has had one-person shows at the Serpentine Gallery, London (1990), the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (1996), and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998). She lives in New York City.