Sophie Calle

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-02-01
Publisher(s): Prestel Pub
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Summary

This comprehensive retrospective of Sophie Calle not only celebrates the breadth of her iconoclastic work but also leads to a deeper understanding of her unique artistic vision. The work of conceptual artist Sophie Calle embraces numerous media: photography, storytelling, film, and memoir, to name a few. Often controversial, Calle's projects explore issues of voyeurism, intimacy, and identity as she secretly investigates, reconstructs and documents the lives of strangers - whether she is inviting them to sleep in her bed, trailing them through a hotel, or following them through the city. Taking on multiple roles - detective, documentarian, behavioral scientist and diarist - Calle turns the interplay between life and art on its head. The book presents Calle's best-known works, including "The Blind", "No Sex Last Night", "The Hotel", "The Address Book" and "A Woman Vanishes", as well as lesser known and earlier projects that have largely escaped the public eye. The book also includes diary excerpts and video stills, along with three critical essays, a revealing interview with the artist and a dialogue with fellow artist Damien Hirst.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. 13
Prefacep. 15
"The author issue in the work of Sophie Calle : Unfinished"p. 17
"The paper tigress"p. 29
Diaries, 1978-1992p. 41
Shadows, investigations, vanishings
Paris shadows, 1978-1979p. 61
"Biographical interview with Sophie Calle"p. 73
Suite venitienne, 1980p. 85
The address book, 1983p. 97
The shadow, 1981p. 101
Twenty years later, 2001p. 113
A woman vanishes, 2003p. 125
"Beet, alfalfa, etc."p. 137
Hotel rooms, sleepless nights and other true stories
The sleepers, 1979p. 145
The hotel, 1981p. 157
Bedroom, 2003p. 169
True stories, 1988-2003p. 173
Appointment with Sigmund Freud, 1998p. 185
Journey to California, 2003p. 197
Room with a view, 2002p. 209
"Psychological assessment", 2003p. 217
Games and ceremonies
The graves, 1990p. 245
The striptease, 1979p. 253
The birthday ceremony, 1980-1993p. 261
Gotham handbook, 1994p. 273
The chromatic diet, 1997p. 281
Days under the sign of B, C & W, 1998p. 289
Journeys
The Bronx, 1980p. 305
Anatoli, 1984p. 309
Los Angeles, 1984p. 317
No sex last night, 1992p. 325
The Eruv of Jerusalem, 1996p. 337
The detachment, 1996p. 345
Exquisite pain, 1984-2003p. 353
Absence
The blind, 1986p. 377
Color blind, 1991p. 385
Ghosts, 1989-1991p. 393
Last seen, 1991p. 401
Unfinished, 2003p. 415
Appendices
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