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Published by Art Resources Transfer, 2011
Sewn-bound hardcover
First printing
175 pages
10.25×8.5 inches
Book interior is in Near Fine condition with a tight binding and no marks. Cover is Very Good with some light scuffing and a ding to the bottom right corner.
Very rare art book by filmmaker James Benning. Edited by Julie Ault, the book documents and analyzes a body of work by Benning, run which he reconstructed Henry David Thoreau’s and Ted Kaczynski’s iconic cabins, using the structures to reflect on utopian and dystopian versions of social isolation. Mounted on the walls of each cabin are copies of paintings by so-called outsider artists, also made by Benning. On the surface Benning’s two cabins are night and day, invoking contradictory sets of reclusive intentions and divergent paths leading back out. Deeper inquiry reveals the Thoreau/Kaczynski equation to be inspired. Benning's engagement makes discernable a multitude of contacts between their motivations, beliefs, and experiences of seclusion. Benning's armature artfully unfolds a complex articulation of practices of dissent, nonprescriptive ways of living, and the politics of solitude.The book includes photography by Benning, essays by Julie Ault, Benning, and Dick Hebdige, and extracts from Thoreau’s and Kaczynski’s writings.
Published by Art Resources Transfer, 2011
Sewn-bound hardcover
First printing
175 pages
10.25×8.5 inches
Book interior is in Near Fine condition with a tight binding and no marks. Cover is Very Good with some light scuffing and a ding to the bottom right corner.
Very rare art book by filmmaker James Benning. Edited by Julie Ault, the book documents and analyzes a body of work by Benning, run which he reconstructed Henry David Thoreau’s and Ted Kaczynski’s iconic cabins, using the structures to reflect on utopian and dystopian versions of social isolation. Mounted on the walls of each cabin are copies of paintings by so-called outsider artists, also made by Benning. On the surface Benning’s two cabins are night and day, invoking contradictory sets of reclusive intentions and divergent paths leading back out. Deeper inquiry reveals the Thoreau/Kaczynski equation to be inspired. Benning's engagement makes discernable a multitude of contacts between their motivations, beliefs, and experiences of seclusion. Benning's armature artfully unfolds a complex articulation of practices of dissent, nonprescriptive ways of living, and the politics of solitude.The book includes photography by Benning, essays by Julie Ault, Benning, and Dick Hebdige, and extracts from Thoreau’s and Kaczynski’s writings.
