Main entry:

Umbrico, Penelope, book artist.

Title & Author:

Out of order : used office desks and used office plants for sale / Penelope Umbrico.

Publication:

Paris : RVB Books, 2014

Description:

80, 8 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Issued in a portfolio.
"Edition 500 numbered copies"--Colophon.
Library has copy 30/500.
NBB
Found images of used office desks -- Repurposed offset zine pages -- Digital images of used office plants -- One 4 x 6" glossy machine c-print -- List of bank failures in the United States from 2008-2013 -- The Visible Crisis / Clément Chéroux -- Artist's statement.
Artists' statement in English with parallel French translation; essay by Clément Chérous in French with paralle English translation.

Summary:

"Out of Order is a collection of images I found between 2008 and 2013 on office liquidations websites that buy the entire stock of furniture from offices going out of business. Among the offerings of used office desks for sale are the office plants whose job it was to make office employees feel more human - to give them something to care for in these synthetic modular spaces. The objects pictured in these images are the aftermath and by-products of a Modernism infused with a disparity between free market optimism and its dystopic result."--Artist's statement.

ISBN:

9791090306288

Subject:

Umbrico, Penelope.
Appropriation (Art)
Artists' books.
Furniture in art.
Plants in art.
Livres d'artistes.
Meubles dans l'art.
artists' books (books)
appropriation (imagery)
bookworks.

Form/genre:

artists' books (books)
Artists' books
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Chéroux, Clément, 1970- writer of supplementary textual content.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319256
Call No.: 319256
Copy: 1
Status: Available