Softcover
ISBN:
9783907236086
A brick-thick artist's book of some 1,200 pages and 600 black-and-white images, gathering the high-contrast photocopies Marclay produces in the studio as quick sketches. For Marclay the photocopier is simply another tool: a fast way to sample, appropriate and collage found images and try out ideas, with accidents often leading somewhere unexpected. The result is a visual index of the source material behind his work of recent years.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Christian Marclay: Translating" at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (2021-2022).
Index is a key volume in the collection's ongoing thread on printed matter and mechanical reproduction. Like Wade Guyton, who swapped the brush for inkjet printers and flatbed scanners and made their glitches and ink bleeds part of the image, and Christopher Wool, whose raw Xerox books such as Absent Without Leave turned the copier into a medium in its own right, Marclay uses the machine not to duplicate faithfully but to transform: toner, contrast, cropping and enlargement do the work of the hand. It also sits naturally beside Kelley Walker and the Guyton\Walker collaboration, where mass-media imagery is recycled through scanning and reprinting. At 1,200 pages, Index is perhaps the most complete statement in the collection of the copy as a creative act, less a record of finished works than of reproduction as a way of thinking.
is a key volume in the collection's ongoing thread on printed matter and mechanical reproduction. Like Wade Guyton, who swapped the brush for inkjet printers and flatbed scanners and made their glitches and ink bleeds part of the image, and Christopher Wool, whose raw Xerox books such as Absent Without Leave turned the copier into a medium in its own right, Marclay uses the machine not to duplicate faithfully but to transform: toner, contrast, cropping and enlargement do the work of the hand. It also sits naturally beside Kelley Walker and the Guyton\Walker collaboration, where mass-media imagery is recycled through scanning and reprinting. At 1,200 pages, Index is perhaps the most complete statement in the collection of the copy as a creative act, less a record of finished works than of reproduction as a way of thinking.
A brick-thick artist's book of some 1,200 pages and 600 black-and-white images, gathering the high-contrast photocopies Marclay produces in the studio as quick sketches. For Marclay the photocopier is simply another tool: a fast way to sample, appropriate and collage found images and try out ideas, with accidents often leading somewhere unexpected. The result is a visual index of the source material behind his work of recent years.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Christian Marclay: Translating" at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (2021-2022).
Index is a key volume in the collection's ongoing thread on printed matter and mechanical reproduction. Like Wade Guyton, who swapped the brush for inkjet printers and flatbed scanners and made their glitches and ink bleeds part of the image, and Christopher Wool, whose raw Xerox books such as Absent Without Leave turned the copier into a medium in its own right, Marclay uses the machine not to duplicate faithfully but to transform: toner, contrast, cropping and enlargement do the work of the hand. It also sits naturally beside Kelley Walker and the Guyton\Walker collaboration, where mass-media imagery is recycled through scanning and reprinting. At 1,200 pages, Index is perhaps the most complete statement in the collection of the copy as a creative act, less a record of finished works than of reproduction as a way of thinking.
is a key volume in the collection's ongoing thread on printed matter and mechanical reproduction. Like Wade Guyton, who swapped the brush for inkjet printers and flatbed scanners and made their glitches and ink bleeds part of the image, and Christopher Wool, whose raw Xerox books such as Absent Without Leave turned the copier into a medium in its own right, Marclay uses the machine not to duplicate faithfully but to transform: toner, contrast, cropping and enlargement do the work of the hand. It also sits naturally beside Kelley Walker and the Guyton\Walker collaboration, where mass-media imagery is recycled through scanning and reprinting. At 1,200 pages, Index is perhaps the most complete statement in the collection of the copy as a creative act, less a record of finished works than of reproduction as a way of thinking.