By repeatedly re-photographing her images, transferring them from video to film and back again, and manipulating them digitally, Michal Rovner creates photographic and video imagery that abstract familiar subjects like houses, animals, and people into ambiguous and iconic forms. Working with representation but against the traditions of narrative and documentary purpose, her artworks imply a tentative universe, one that is paradoxically peaceful and unsettled, vivid and shrouded, and completely counter-factual. If the ...
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By repeatedly re-photographing her images, transferring them from video to film and back again, and manipulating them digitally, Michal Rovner creates photographic and video imagery that abstract familiar subjects like houses, animals, and people into ambiguous and iconic forms. Working with representation but against the traditions of narrative and documentary purpose, her artworks imply a tentative universe, one that is paradoxically peaceful and unsettled, vivid and shrouded, and completely counter-factual. If the changing nature of art has resulted in a general blurring of boundaries--between painting and photography, reality and memory, presence and absence--Rovner mines this haziness, refuses to respect borders, and exists completely in The Space Between .
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Add this copy of Michal Rovner: the Space Between to cart. $31.50, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Steidl Publishers / Whitney Museum Of American Art.
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VG-(scattered instances of light white & black speckled staining to front board edge. indentation to upper board edge near spine. upper corner bumped w/ rubbing & curling to corners. spine lightly sunned. curl front board. textblock edges foxed w/... Red cloth printed flex-binding. 288 pp., profusely illustrated. The Israeli-born visual artist's compelling image studies-by turns abstract, calligraphic, painterly, and filmic-confront nature, armed conflict, and the solitary individual. Her point of departure is never obvious, which places the viewer's arrival at a space of destination into more or less the same problematic. In addition to all the visual material, the book hosts thetranscript of a remarkable conversation between Rovner and artist Leon Golub. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 11-October 13, 2002.
Add this copy of Michal Rovner: the Space Between to cart. $35.00, like new condition, Sold by Design Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Steidl/Whitney Museum of American Art/Steidl.
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Fine. This is a fine hardcover copy of the first, and probably only printing, with virtually no wear. Completely clean, no marks to red flexible covers or text. No dust jacket as issued. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Whitney Museum from July 11 to October 13, 2002. Edited by Sylvia Wolf. Essay by Michael Rush. Conversation between Michal Rovner and Leon Golub. Illustrated in black & white and color. 11" high X 10" wide, 256 pages. A beautiful copy. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Add this copy of Michal Rovner: the Space Between to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Black Cat Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sag Harbor, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Steidl/Whitney Museum of American Art.
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First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 256 pages. Monograph on Israeli artist Michal Rovner. Features a foreword by Maxwell L. Anderson, and essays by Sylvia Wolf and Michael Rush, and with a conversation between Rovner and Leon Golub and a chronology by Yukiko Yamagata. Includes numerous illustrations, list of previous exhibitions, selected bibliography, checklist, and acknowledgements by Wolf and Rovner. A clean very near fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued.
Add this copy of The Space Between to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Very good. No jacket. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition "Michal Rovner: The Space Between" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from July 11 to October 13, 2002. Cover corners are lightly worn. Pages are clean and unmarked.
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Very Good+ No Jacket. 2002, First Edition. Hardcover, cloth over flexible boards. Very Good+. Clean contents. Sound binding. Light rubbing and 2 stray ink marks to the covers.
Add this copy of Michal Rovner: the Space Between to cart. $50.00, like new condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Steidl / Whitney.
