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In the satirical tradition of Jonathan Swift, Yto Barrada's artist book is a guide humbly submitted by an anonymous bureaucrat, zealously advising his readers on how to prepare their city for a visit by a high-ranking official. Seemingly reasonable at first, these directives gradually begin to suggest something amiss behind the patriotic Potemkin facades. Millions of years ago, today's Sahara desert was a tropical paradise. Today, the arid space between Morocco's Atlas Mountains and the desert are home to a hardscrabble cottage industry of excavating, preparing, forging, and selling fossils. Yto Barrada has explored this unique landscape though years of research, photographs, films and objects.
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A guide to trees for governors and gardeners, Yto Barrada
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- A guide to trees for governors and gardeners
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Yto Barrada
- Publisher
- Buchhandlung Walther König
- Released
- 2016
- ISBN10
- 3960980299
- ISBN13
- 9783960980292
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- In the satirical tradition of Jonathan Swift, Yto Barrada's artist book is a guide humbly submitted by an anonymous bureaucrat, zealously advising his readers on how to prepare their city for a visit by a high-ranking official. Seemingly reasonable at first, these directives gradually begin to suggest something amiss behind the patriotic Potemkin facades. Millions of years ago, today's Sahara desert was a tropical paradise. Today, the arid space between Morocco's Atlas Mountains and the desert are home to a hardscrabble cottage industry of excavating, preparing, forging, and selling fossils. Yto Barrada has explored this unique landscape though years of research, photographs, films and objects.