Title & Author:

Allan Sekula : ship of fools / the dockers' museum / edited by Hilde Van Gelder.

Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

239 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Lieven Gevaert Series ; 19

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Allan Sekula's Chronotopes: Uneven et Combined Capitalism / Steve Edwards -- Photography Against the Flow: Abstraction and Logistics in Allan Sekula's Writings / Alberto Toscano -- Allan Sekula's Transitive Poetics: Metonymy and Metaphor in Lottery of the Sea, Ship of Fools and The Dockers' Museum / Gail Day -- Allan Sekula's Labor of Giants / Hilde Van Gelder -- Collection and Recollection: Allan Sekula's Nutcracker Suite / Sally Stein -- Selected Texts by and Excerpts from Discussions with Allan Sekula.

Summary:

This is the project on which the North American artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life (2010-2013). The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints which the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers' Museum). Sekula dedicated this work to both historical and contemporary labor solidarity in and around the docks. At the time of his sad passing in the Summer of 2013, Allan Sekula was in the midst of collaborating on this publication with all four contributing authors: Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Alberto Toscano, and Hilde Van Gelder, each of whom he had asked to write essays. This volume, which includes a representative ensemble of images and objects that are part of Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum, follows as closely as possible the instructions given by the artist and is the first substantial scholarly analysis of this impressive project. It contains a preface by Jürgen Bock and Bart De Baere, who both curated exhibited installations of the work during the artist's lifetime. The volume also includes draft text materials written by the artist himself, as well as selections from the multitude of unpublished interviews, public debates, and lectures that Allan Sekula delivered between 2010 and 2012. Finally, this publication includes a moving essay on the project by the artist's widow, Sally Stein.

ISBN:

9789462700055 (paperback)
9462700052

Subject:

Sekula, Allan.
Sekula, Allan, 1951-2013.
Sekula, Allan 1951-2013
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Fotografie
Hafenarbeit
Project-art

Added entries:

Sekula, Allan, photographer.
Gelder, Hilde van, editor.
Lieven Gevaert series ; v. 19.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293210
Call No.: BIB 237968
Status: Available