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Steve Heller
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| 06/01/2007 7:58 AM |
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Its a shame that The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America (A Guide to Field Identification) by Julian Montague was as hidden in the bookstores as the shopping carts he documents are buried under brush, weeds, and thrown in dumpsters. The book is a brilliant survey of a little known, if arcane, pastime conceived and rendered with the passion only an obsessed artist/designer/author can accomplish. But sadly the book, published in February 2006, and only now brought to my attention (which, incidentally is beautifully designed) is still available on Amazon. Barnes and Noble decided to put it in its humor section, when in fact, it is both anthropological and sociological, not to mention archeological and its author believes it should have been appreciated as a serious work of research.
Disappointment aside, Mr. Montague reports "I am currently working on a new project that is going to deal largely with spiders. It will be a lot less wordy than the shopping cart project but I want to take some of those same methodologies and use them to
explore the peripheral spaces in architectural interiors." Also he will have a show of this new work at Black & White Gallery (in Chelsea, New York), next spring.
In the meantime, if the shopping cart infestation has been of concern to you, get a copy (or see the larger images on Amazon).
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