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...snapped each week-blogged, harbored in albums or, just as inevitably, consigned to refuse bins at the sight of an unflattering haircut. It is these rustling forests of lost and discarded images that concern photo historian Michel Frizot and photography professor Cédric de Veigy. Their Photo Trouvée, recently published by Phaidon, brings together 285 anonymous, amateur snapshots, salvaged from flea markets and antique shops over the past 20 years. Behind every one is a delicious enigma: Who captured...
Such shopworn conceits abound in Sabbatical, plus stories within stories, objets trouvés (newspaper clippings) and many, many footnotes. In other words, Earth is up to a lot of his old tricks. His performance this time begins with the end of a nine-month Caribbean sea journey by Susan and Fenwick. They have steered their cruising sailboat back to its starting point in Chesapeake Bay. thus describing "the closing of the circle." Now what? They have failed to make certain decisions while at sea. Should Susan have a baby or accept a tenured position at Swarthmore? Fenwick...
Some pieces are so lightly touched that they are almost objets trouvés. But in all of them, the same intense sensibility is at work, making a mere saw cut register as drawing against the dull cortex of the rock, hollowing out a shadow, drawing a surface tight, making the eye aware of what mass and density lie beneath the surface. It is not a spectacular performance, but its mastery in playful thought, and collaboration with material, is close to absolute...
...Georgian silver. A vast subculture of acquisition is feeding on scarce objects of every conceivable description. Britons are busily unearthing-and auctioneers as busily selling-such objects of dubious virtue as antique typewriters, gramophones and biscuit tins. Americans, with more catholic taste for trivia, have enshrined such unlovely objets trouvés as old flyswatters, orange reamers, apple parers, Kraft cheese jars (a.k.a. "swanky swigs"), Mickey Mousiana, player pianos, Coke bottle tops, beer cans, Barbie dolls, barbed wire and tractor seats-to name only a smattering. Gypsy Rose Lee's mink G string sold...
...Schwitters was also possessed by that Faustian drive that today can be seen in Claes Oldenburg: the ambition to turn the whole world, bit by bit, into an immense objet trouvé. Thus his radical invention of environmental art. Schwitters' Merzbau (or Merz-house) in Hannover was the first great work of its kind, integrating assemblage, painting and architecture. Its convolutions reached through two floors and four rooms of Schwitters' home, with a separate offshoot in the attic. It was as if he had deposited the cells and memories of his own brain, wrought out in a coral...