DAVID CAMPANY a Handful of Dust

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DAVID CAMPANY a Handful of Dust is his speculative history of the last century, and a visual journey through some of its unlikeliest imagery. Let’s suppose the modern era begins in October of 1922. A little French avant-garde journal publishes a photograph of a sheet of glass covered in dust. The photographer is Man Ray, the glass is by Marcel Duchamp. At first they called it a view from an aeroplane. Then they called it Dust Breeding. It’s abstract, it’s realist. It’s an artwork, it’s a document. It’s revolting and compelling. Cameras must be kept away from dust but they find it highly photogenic. At the same time, a little English journal publishes TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

And what if dust is really the key to the intervening years? Why do we dislike it? Is it cosmic? We are stardust, after all. Is it domestic? Inevitable and unruly, dust is the enemy of the modern order, its repressed other, its nemesis. But it has a story to tell from the other side.

232 pages
180 colour plates
20 cm x 24 cm
Paperback
2 books
Second Edition
ISBN 9781910164969

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Pages

232 pages

Publication Date

May 2017

Publication Size

20 x 24 cm

Publication Type

Books

Publisher

Mack Books

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