Commonsenual
Commonsenual: The Works of Rut Blees Luxemburg Blanche Craig (Editor)
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
ISBN: 1906155577
DDC: 770
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-06-16
Summary:
Rut Blees Luxemburg's photographic work explores the public spaces of
cities, where the ambitions and unexpected sensual elaborations of
the `modern project' are revealed. In so doing she brings to light
the overlooked, the dismissed and the unforeseen and creates uncanny
and vertiginous compositions whose constituent parts suggest
different ways of experiencing our shared common spaces.
Commonsensual: The Works of Rut Blees Luxemburg is the most
authoritative survey of the photographer's work to date. Drawing on
such influences as Giambattista Vico's notion of Sensus Communis (or
collective sense), Luxemburg's projects include A Modern Project
(used on the CD cover for The Streets' Original Pirate Material) and
the opera Liebeslied/My Suicides, based on the photographic series
Liebeslied, as well as To Delphi, Faust 2, pied-à-terre lumière,
Phantom, ffolly, and Piccadilly's Peccadilloes. With an introduction
by Regis Durand, former director of the Jeu de Paume and the Centre
National de la Photographie in Paris, and texts by poet Douglas Park,
and philosopher Alexander Garcia Duttmann, Commonsensual deftly
summarises the many nuances of Blees Luxemburg's work.
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