Double Readings

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Double Readings

Artist Buzz Spector (American, born 1948)

Publisher The Press of Events [Buzz Spector]

Place of OriginChicago

Date1987

DimensionsOverall: 8 x 5 in. (20.3 x 12.7 cm)

MediumOff-set printing

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of the Artist

Object number

2001.8

Not on View

DescriptionAn artists' book published in conjunction with an installation at Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, April 10-May 12, 1987. Offset-printed, single gathering of [32] p. stapled to paper cover. "'Double Readings' was an installation in two parts: a large, free standing construction of books in the form of a stairway, placed in the center of the room, and eight bookshelves in white laminate, holding every book in my personal library, covered with plexiglas, and lining the walls of the space. The stairway form was made up of books rescued-for the purposes of art-from library and used bookstore discards. Headed for the junk heap, these books remain lost as texts, but gain a new identity as elements in a constructed form. My library, on the other hand, is preserved as a personal selection of texts, although rendered in accessible by the intervention of the plexiglas. The eight bookshelves are thus 'framed' for exhibition in the gallery, and the arrays of books on their shelves are turned into pictorial subjects. As I have stated on the back cover of the, "It is an autobiographical work." - Buzz Spector An artists' book published in conjunction with an installation at Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, April 10-May 12, 1987. Offset-printed, single gathering of [32] p. stapled to paper cover. "'Double Readings' was an installation in two parts: a large, free standing construction of books in the form of a stairway, placed in the center of the room, and eight bookshelves in white laminate, holding every book in my personal library, covered with plexiglas, and lining the walls of the space. The stairway form was made up of books rescued-for the purposes of art-from library and used bookstore discards. Headed for the junk heap, these books remain lost as texts, but gain a new identity as elements in a constructed form. My library, on the other hand, is preserved as a personal selection of texts, although rendered in accessible by the intervention of the plexiglas. The eight bookshelves are thus 'framed' for exhibition in the gallery, and the arrays of books on their shelves are turned into pictorial subjects. As I have stated on the back cover of the, "It is an autobiographical work." - Buzz Spector

Published Referencescf. Johanna Drucker, "Trends," Journal of Artists' Books (Fall 1995, no. 4), p. 4-5. cf. Edmund Burke Feldman, "Buzz Spector, Large Drawings and Objects," Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AK, 1996): 50-51. cf. James Yood, "Buzz Spector at Roy Boyd Gallery," Artforum, (v. 34, no. 8, April 1996), p. 106. cf. Mark Swartz, "Independent Labels: Marcel Broodthaers and Buzz Spector," Chicago Reader (January 5), sect. 1, pp. 24-25. cf. Kerry Kugelman, "Buzz Spector at Angles" Art Issues, (no. 41, Jan-Feb 1996), p. 45.