Manual: Errant Arcadia

HILL, Ed and Suzanne Bloom, Lucy R. Lippard

ISBN 10: 0967439515 / ISBN 13: 9780967439518

Published by International Center of Photography and Houston Artists Fund, New York and Houston, TX, 2003

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First edition. Oblong softcover. 79 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran June 28 through September 1, 2002 at International Center of Photography and then February 8 through May 2, 2004 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Preface by Willis E. Hartshorn. Introduction by Edward W. Earle. Essay by Lucy R. Lippard. A look at the collaboration between Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom that includes numerous illustrations. A fine copy in wrappers. An as new copy and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Seller Inventory # 159992

Bibliographic Details

Title: Manual: Errant Arcadia

Publisher: International Center of Photography and Houston Artists Fund, New York and Houston, TX

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

This book presents the most recent body of work by artists Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom, the collaborative team known as MANUAL. Masters of digital media, the artists’ photo-constructions and time-based works play extensively with the subject of Arcadia, a mythic, poetic space based on an actual geographical place.

This publication focuses on a body of work, broadly titled Arcadia Project, created between 1996 and 2002, which deals with the concept and mythology of Arcadia. Seventeen black and white and 32 color reproductions are accompanied by three essays. Edward W. Earle, curator of Digital Media at the International Center of Photography, considers the artists’ content in view of technological developments and their complex relation to nature. In her essay "The Trees for the Forest," writer-critic Lucy Lippard, an outsider to digital technologies but someone deeply invested in the issues of artistic identity and geographic place, characterizes MANUAL’s approach as "not just a visual pun on history and spectacle . . . but a new kind of allegory." The third essay, by the artists themselves, traces the evolutionary concept of Arcadia and brings it full circle to their specific geographic focus, rural Vermont.