Francesc Torres
What Does History Know of Nail-Biting?
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Word Count
22,000 words, Guess
Page Count
88 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139788434313590
- ISBN-108434313596
- OCLC Control Number981220704
- Better World Books9788434313590
- Open LibraryOL34400376M
Classifications
- LCCN6494.V53
- LCCN7113.T64 A4 2016
Description
"Barcelona-born, New York-based artist Francesc Torres (born 1948), a pioneer of installation art, is one of the most important European artists of his generation. In What Does History Know of Nail-Biting, which borrows its subtitle from Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the artist explores a body of work made by Harry Randall, a photographer and filmmaker who was one of 3,500 Americans who joined the International Brigades to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Many of the so-called Abraham Lincoln Brigade did not make it home, but Randall did. Forty-five minutes of 16mm film, shot by Randall between 1937 and 1938, becomes the material for Torres' new limited-edition artist's book, which explores what history looks like outside of concrete historical events, trying to capture the fragmentation and confusion that silently seeps through the official narratives of history"--Amazon.com.
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