The Collections of Barbara Bloom

by Susan Tallman

This volume assesses a wonderful body of work that encompasses installations, films, artist's books and specimens from the artist's vast archives of ephemera. Like Marcel Broodthaers and Susan Hiller, Bloom has a creative attraction toward taxonomy and museology: the installation "Greed" (1988), for instance, is comprised of a chair, an empty frame and a photograph of a museum gallery with a seated guard. An example of one of her own collections is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865216218
• ISBN13: 9783865216212
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.5" x 11.5"