publication
Seth Price: Social Synthetic
Description
The catalogue is the first comprehensive publication on Price's varied ouevre. It offers an unflinching portrait of contemporary, mediated Western life. A key theme in Price's work is the self under technological pressure. This is often expressed in terms of the "skins" of surface, packaging, and wrapping: a photographic study of a person’s skin obtained through the technologies Google employs for mapping; a vacuum-formed plastic relief presenting a body part stranded in plastic; a large wall sculpture depicting the negative space between two people engaged in intimate action, greatly enlarged from a tiny internet jpeg.
Key data
- Edited byBeatrix Ruf, Achim Hochdörfer
- With contributions fromCory Arcangel, Ed Halter, Achim Hochdörfer, Branden W. Joseph, John Kelsey, Michelle Kuo, Bernhard Maaz, Ariana Reines, Beatrix Ruf
- PublisherVerlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
- Format31 x 23,6 cm
- Book format396 Pages | 392 Illustrations
- DesignEric Wrenn, Seth Price
- LanguageEnglish
- ISBN-No.978-3-96098-112-1 (EN)
- Price54,95 Euro at the museum
