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Richard Artschwager: Book

1987

Book
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Photo: Jesse Untracht-Oakner

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Richard Artschwager’s Book is the latest in a series of specially commissioned limited-edition sculptures by prominent American artists produced by Brooke Alexander to benefit the New Museum. Produced in an edition of forty, this new work is typical of Artschwager’s oeuvre, which seeks to transform everyday objects into ambivalent structures involving the interrelationship of illusion and reality. Book is made of Formica on wood and is ideally suited to display on a tabletop, pedestal, or lectern.

Details

Book, 1987
Formica on wood
5 × 20 × 12 in (12.7 × 50.8 × 30.5 cm)

Edition of 40
Produced by Brooke Alexander for the New Museum
Courtesy the artist and Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Richard Artschwager’s Book is the latest in a series of specially commissioned limited-edition sculptures by prominent American artists produced by Brooke Alexander to benefit the New Museum. Produced in an edition of forty, this new work is typical of Artschwager’s oeuvre, which seeks to transform everyday objects into ambivalent structures involving the interrelationship of illusion and reality. Book is made of Formica on wood and is ideally suited to display on a tabletop, pedestal, or lectern.

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