Front pockets / Jonathan Bonner ; [afterword, Judith Tannenbaum ; object photographs, Ric Murray ; demonstration photographs, Bill Gallery ; video, Geoff Adams].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonner, Jonathan, 1947-

Contributor:

Tannenbaum, Judith, 1944-

Murray, Ric.

Gallery, Bill.

Adams, Geoff.

Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bonner, Jonathan, 1947---Exhibitions.

Bonner, Jonathan.

Bonner, Jonathan, 1947-.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 x 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Providence : Rhode Island School of Design, 2001.

Summary:

Masterfully conceived and crafted, the eleven pairs of objects designed by Jonathan Bonner to fit into an individual's trouser pockets are also completely preposterous in their functionality. Graphite and glass pocket balls pop out awkwardly from the leg, circular pocket magnets provide a novel way of carrying scissors, wrenches, and screwdrivers. Ice pocket mounds melt, pointy pocket weasels create holes, and pocket air bags bulge. In deadpan images that mock product photography and industrial publications, Bonner plays mischievously with the relationship of function to design, advertising to reality, sobriety of approach to hilarity of conception, proving himself much more interested in the long-standing relationship of hands to pockets and genitals than in the idea of usefulness.

Notes:

"3000 copies for the Musuem of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence on the occasion of the exhibition Jonathan Bonner: Front Pockets, November 9, 2001-January 27, 2002."--Colophon.

ISBN:

0911517731

OCLC:

48981499