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A guide to trees for governors and gardeners / Yto Barrada.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrada, Yto, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists' books.
- Visits of state--Planning--Humor.
- Visits of state.
- City planning--Humor.
- City planning.
- Planning.
- Tangier (Morocco)--Pictorial works.
- Tangier (Morocco).
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 122 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm + 1 sheet (41 x 30 cm folded to 21 x 15 cm)
- Place of Publication:
- [Berlin] : Deutsche+Guggenheim, [2011]
- Summary:
- "In the satirical tradition of Jonathan Swift, and riffing on Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, Yto Barrada's artist book is a guide humbly submitted by an anonymous bureaucrat describing how to prepare an unnamed city for a visit by a high-ranking diplomatic official. The manual consists of illustrated instructions, graphs, charts, collages, and photographs, and promises to 'reveal for the first time ... a radical innovation' in the method of placing palm trees along the visitor's route. Seemingly reasonable at first, these directives - on repainting sidewalks, making cardboard spectators and arranging palm trees to 'induce a state of euphoria' in the visitor - begin to suggest something amiss behind the patriotic Potemkin facades."--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Timeline
- Painting & cleaning
- Fruits, flowers & weeds
- Flags & music
- Charts & graphs
- The spectator
- Traffic islands
- Palm trees
- Index
- List of works.
- Notes:
- Issued in slipcase.
- Limited, numbered, and signed ed. of 350 copies.
- "Preparing the city for an official visit ranks among a governor's most important and imposing duties. This guide is humbly submitted by a concerned citizen to help governors and their gardeners create a spectacular welcome, and is illustrated with collages, charts, and photographs. It also proposes a radical innovation regarding the placement and spacing of trees along the route."--P. [4] of cover.
- Signed print loosely inserted.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Penn Libraries Rare Books has copy 56 of 350..
- OCLC:
- 785809918
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