Auras
Homage to Marcel Duchamp / Levitations : Homage to Yves Klein
by Susan Hiller

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Editor(s)

Susan Hiller

Publication

London : Bookworks, 2010

Scope

160 Pages, illustrated, 11 cm.

ISBN

9781906012076

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Susan Hiller’s artist’s book which pays homage to two images of aspiration, fantasy and sublimation: Yves Klein’s Leap Into The Void, and Marcel Duchamp’s Portrait of Dr. R. Dumouchel. Both embrace the phantasmagorical legacy of modernist art; in the former, the shaman’s defiance of gravity, in the latter, the clairvoyant’s perception of human auras. In her miniature book, Hiller has assembled images sourced from the internet, all paying indirect homage to these two artists’ gestures.

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Person as subject

Susan Hiller, Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein

Keywords

photography , new media

Location

Cabinet 4 - 1: Kunstenaars

Remarks