Inspired by the Brooklyn Museum’s current exhibition Who Shot Sports we went into the stacks o
Inspired by the Brooklyn Museum’s current exhibition Who Shot Sports we went into the stacks of the Libraries and Archives to see what sports-related Artists’ Books we have in our collection.ARTBALL PLAYING CARDS by Don Celender is a unique and witty deck of playing cards featuring composite photographs depicting artists, art critics, and gallery owners as football players. In this deck are such art world luminaries as: Paula Cooper (4 of clubs) Quarterback, Minnesota Vikings. Red Grooms (3 of spades) Linebacker, New York Giants. Louise Nevelson (Queen of spades) Linebacker, Oakland Raiders. Clement Greenberg (Joker) Substitute, New York Jets.TEAM SET by Noah Breuer is a Risograph-printed book featuring a dream-team lineup of 36 baseball players. Topps brand trading cards from 1989 and 1990 were collaged and reproduced in this book at an enlarged scale of 10 x 7”. This large format emphasizes the often overlooked elemental halftone dots used in the 4-color offset lithography printing method of the original set of baseball cards.LEONARDO KNOWS BASEBALL features words by Leonardo da Vinci and monotypes by Charles Hobson. In this handsome accordion style book pastel-on-monotype images of baseball players are paired with Leonardo da Vinci’s observations and writings about the human figure.RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA’S SOCCER HALF-TIME COOKERY BOOK = KOCHBUCH FÜR DIE HALBZEIT PAUSE by artist/chef Rirkrit Tiravanija contains 16 “high energy” recipes for half-time that can all be prepared in 15 minutes. The book is supplemented with photographs of friends watching the 2006 World Cup.Posted by Keith DuQuette -- source link
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