For Tropos , Ann Hamilton spread a sea of horsehair across the 5000 square feet of a factory building. Varying in color and sewn together in bundles, this hair was navigated by visitors, while in the middle of the room sat a lone figure at a desk, whose task was to read and burn each line of a text in a book; from somewhere outside the building came the strangulated garble of a man attempting speech. This surreal environment, with its attendant sense of dream landscape and half-formed associations, is classic Hamilton, at ...
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For Tropos , Ann Hamilton spread a sea of horsehair across the 5000 square feet of a factory building. Varying in color and sewn together in bundles, this hair was navigated by visitors, while in the middle of the room sat a lone figure at a desk, whose task was to read and burn each line of a text in a book; from somewhere outside the building came the strangulated garble of a man attempting speech. This surreal environment, with its attendant sense of dream landscape and half-formed associations, is classic Hamilton, at once seductive and disorienting. This book records the project.
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Near Fine. No dust jacket as issued. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine rust, red, and magenta cloth-covered boards with title stamped in blue on both covers and spine, no dust jacket as issued. Installation by Ann Hamilton. Preface by Michael Govan. Essays by Lynne Cooke, Marina Warner, Bruce Ferguson, and Dave Hickey. Includes exhibition history. Designed by Lisa Naftolin, Alison Hahn, and Nigel Smith Design. 152 pp., with 20 four-color plates (12 of which are printed as two-page spreads, plus 6 two-page facing gatefolds printed full-bleed across four pages) and 17 black and white plates; beautifully printed by the Stinehour Press on Mohawk Superfine matte art paper. 10-1/4 x 7-1/4 inches. Near Fine (slight foxing to the endpapers, else Fine). This book documents Hamilton's installation "tropos" at The Dia Center for the Arts (Chelsea), October 7, 1993 to June 19, 1994. From the essay by Lynne Cooke: "Entering 'tropos, ' the viewer traverses a floor covered with a vast pelt of animal hair. Stitched together in slowly undulating, often interrupted, swirls this epic 'hide' starts to resemble an endlessly surging ground, an oceanic topography. Floating on its swelling eddies is a small metal table and stool where a seated figure meticulously erases the text of an old book. In singeing the printed letters, he or she causes coils of smoke, languorous silhouettes in the muted light, to waft upwards then slowly dissolve."
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New. No dust jacket as issued. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine rust, red, and magenta cloth-covered boards with title stamped in blue on both covers and spine, no dust jacket as issued. Installation by Ann Hamilton. Preface by Michael Govan. Essays by Lynne Cooke, Marina Warner, Bruce Ferguson, and Dave Hickey. Includes exhibition history. Designed by Lisa Naftolin, Alison Hahn, and Nigel Smith Design. 152 pp., with 20 four-color plates (12 of which are printed as two-page spreads, plus 6 two-page facing gatefolds printed full-bleed across four pages) and 17 black and white plates; beautifully printed by the Stinehour Press on Mohawk Superfine matte art paper. 10-1/4 x 7-1/4 inches. New. This book documents Hamilton's installation "tropos" at The Dia Center for the Arts (Chelsea), October 7, 1993 to June 19, 1994. From the essay by Lynne Cooke: "Entering 'tropos, ' the viewer traverses a floor covered with a vast pelt of animal hair. Stitched together in slowly undulating, often interrupted, swirls this epic 'hide' starts to resemble an endlessly surging ground, an oceanic topography. Floating on its swelling eddies is a small metal table and stool where a seated figure meticulously erases the text of an old book. In singeing the printed letters, he or she causes coils of smoke, languorous silhouettes in the muted light, to waft upwards then slowly dissolve."
