Collection 12.16
Portraits
Muntadas
Out of print
Muntadas's proposal is based upon the observation that the microphone is used as a new prosthesis during public appearances. From politician to rocksinger, this object has given rise to a stereotyped gesture, where a closed hand comes nearer an open mouth. The microphone has become an intermediary, a language filter. Mass media produce this irreversible addiction to the prosthesis, while they also are an evidence of it through their daily and permanent broadcasting. Pictures from the written press have been used as raw material for the making of this book. An anthology which also highlights the radical transformation of the portrait as a genre.
size : 120 x 160/ 120 pages / printed in 1 color / isbn : 2-909581-06-3 / Observatory publisher / december 1995 / distributed by LMX
Collection 12.16
In this collection, particular care has been taken to introduce precise points of view on the world as well as on current events. Confronted with a context which might encourage thrift and scarcity, the Observatory takes up the challenge by publishing books in a series of three, which deliberately have no flyleaf, hand or pocket size, light artists' books, yet with sharp content.
In this collection, particular care has been taken to introduce precise points of view on the world as well as on current events. Confronted with a context which might encourage thrift and scarcity, the Observatory takes up the challenge by publishing books in a series of three, which deliberately have no flyleaf, hand or pocket size, light artists' books, yet with sharp content.
