At the Hour of Tea. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.At the Hour of Tea

Octavo. Softcover. Illustrated cover in belly belt jacket with titling. 160 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations ; 21 cm. Paul Sietsema's work in film and painting addresses the objects and systems of cultural production, tracing the circuits of proliferation and consumption that allow these objects to be taken up into history. 'At the hour of tea' is a collection of stills from his most recent 16 mm film of the same title. A filmic space develops within pages of this unique artist's book, moving through and layering the film's imagery and tableaux of objects, via a system of laser-cut portals and transparent screenlike pages. Sietsema employs a language of clichéd, collectible objects, Roman glass, coins, and minor antiquities to invoke the idea of a salon or space of contemplation as a parallel to the contemporary studio, and the idea of a kind of leisure-based consumptive creativity. Drawing on the design idea of skeuomorphism, common in modern computer interfaces, Sietsema fills his tableaux with now-outmoded items that live on as icons of their former functions. VG. Light wear to the fore edge of belly belt, otherwise clean.…