Eldorado : Ruth van Beek / Ruth van Beek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beek, Ruth van, 1977- artist.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beek, Ruth van, 1977-.

Beek, Ruth van.

Physical Description:

78 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Ruth van Beek

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Van Zoetendaal, [2020]

Summary:

Ruth van Beek uses the established visual codes of photography to guide viewers into a belief in the incredible rarity or importance of the depicted object, even when that object is unidentifiable. From a growing archive of found photographic material, she arranges images in constantly changing ways. Specialist books and magazines from the 1950s, ?60s, and ?70s are the primary source for her odd and playful collages, with subjects such as tending bonsai trees, caring for cacti, and the Japanese art of flower arranging. Van Beek cuts and folds, adding paper shapes painted with watercolours and forging often unsettling or comical visual connections between the images.

Notes:

Chiefly illustrated.

ISBN:

9789072532480

9072532481

OCLC:

1205591944