In this remarkable artists book, french conceptual artistprovocateur sophie calle presents 107. Sophie calle has 50 books on goodreads with 8121 ratings. Sophie calle e artista plastica e fotografa francesa nascida em paris, 1953. Calles first artistic work was the sleepers les dormeurs, a project in which she invited passersby to occupy her bed. Published in 2007 a smaller hardback format, reprising all the qualities of the first edition, to coincide. Book depository books with free delivery worldwide. Calle invited 107 women from a ballerina to a lawyer to use their professional skills to interpret an email in which her partner breaks up with her. Calle s surveillance of the man, who she identifies only as henri b.
Browse upcoming and past auction lots by sophie calle. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Features a stamped pink metallic cover, multiple paper changes, special boundin booklets, bright green envelopes containing dvds and even braille endpapers. Calle s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the french literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo. Hardback, 424 pages with 4 cds and two small booklets, 5 illustrations 29. Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist.
Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. Sophie calle, louise lawler, richard misrach, diane neumaier, richard ross, thomas struth. Les dormeurs the sleepers in 1979, in which she invited twentyfour. Isbn 9782742768356 9782742768356 hardcover, actes sud, 2007. Mar 07, 2009 sophie calles art mixes image and text to provoke the kind of intense emotional response usually inspired by epic literature or film. Sophie calle i received an email telling me it was over. In this remarkable artists book, french conceptual artistprovocateur sophie calle presents 107 outside interpretations of a breakup email she received from her lover the day he ended their affair. Sophie calle e nata a parigi il 9 ottobre 1953 dal cardiologo robert calle e da rachel sindler. Rather than answer, file, or simply delete the message, calle gave a copy of it to 107 women and asked them each to respond to it from the perspective of their. Sophie calle s art mixes image and text to provoke the kind of intense emotional response usually inspired by epic literature or film. Her most extraordinary works address rather ordinary human tendencies, from the morbid curiosity informing lhomme au carnet the address book, 1983 to the amorous betrayal of douleur exquise exquisite pain, 19842003, but calle knows how to up the. Trouver tous les livres, en savoir plus sur lauteur. With editorial assistance by robert violette for the englishlanguage edition published in 2007 by actes sud.
The title comes from the last line of an email received by calle in which a lover ends their relationship. Apr 10, 2017 over the course of her 38yearlong career, sophie calle has established herself as one of frances most celebrated conceptual artists. In the exhibition, which extended through several rooms, not only photographs and texts but also videos. She often employs selfestablished guidelines, questions or rituals to transform her life into image and textbased works. Actes sud 2007 215 x 305 mm 420 pages, livrets, 3 dvds, couverture rigide ajouter au panier. Sophie calle is a french artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. It takes the form of a double jeu, a double game, between the work of sophie calle and the fiction of paul auster. In this remarkable artists book, french conceptual artistprovocateur sophie calle presents 107 outside interpretations of a breakup email she received from her. Some were friends, or friends of friends, and some were strangers to her. Featuring a stamped pink metallic cover, multiple paper changes, special boundin booklets, bright green envelopes containing dvds and even braille endpapers, it is a deeply poignant. In her work, she has attempted to metaphorically seduce her. See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Dz bank kunstsammlung, frankfurt am main gruppenausstellung. At the heart of this exhibition is a breakup email that the artist received from a lover, which ends with the line take care of yourself.
Take care of yourself complete set sophie calle 2007. Calle constructed her tome by raising an army of women inviting each to respond to the said breakup email in the language of their profession. Double game was the first major publication in english by french artist sophie calle, and her bestselling title to date. Publie dans 1 book 1 day, art contemporain, expos et tague editions actes sud, bnf, christine. In dieser zeit begann sie wahrend eines kalifornienaufenthaltes zu fotografieren. Sophie calle is a preeminent french artist whose conceptual and poetic works obscure the borders between private and public, art and life. French project artist sophie calle has become well known for her iconoclastic performance art that blends the visual and the textual.
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