GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD: 7-9/72

by Alan Sondheim

$75 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

np: np, 1972. Artist's book by Sondheim. Very good. Item #42448 Discusses the process of working on the piece General Description of the World, which involved collecting images of a beach in Nova Scotia at both micro- and macroscopic levels from a plane and under an actual microscope . Explains the theoretical basis of the project, derived from the work of Merleau-Ponty, Piaget, Levi-Strauss, and Chomsky, among other

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