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#11229

The Sacrifice of Abraham

Price
$17.00
Date
1996
Publisher
Bookieman
Format
Artists' Books
Size
11 × 16.5 × 0.4 cm
Length
90 pages
Genre
Literary
Description

Artist book, softcover, perfect bound, English text.

The Sacrifice of Abrahamcontains fifty short pieces composed in poetic prose, centering on the Biblical story of Isaac and Abraham: a father commanded by God to sacrifice his only son. As the orbit of the sequence circles around the sun of Isaac and Abraham, the book reveals its deeper themes: what is our relation to the past, history, and culture, whose force reaches us so much in the form of trash, hearsay, and gorgeous, illusory misinformation? How does culture live in our mind, and what shape does it take, particularly now that all of our knowledge exists in the abundant, eerie contiguity of the Internet? The book’s answer is something like an enormous apartment complex where Zeus, Athena, Jonah, Abraham, Isaac, and Sarah live simultaneously beside refugees, insurgents, scholars, drug addicts and poets. It is the Renaissance School of Athens in Grand Central Station. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER Bookieman is an independent publishing platform that focuses on limited editions of artists’ books, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaborations between artists and writers. So far, Bookieman has released six books: Acting Souls, Childhood Memories, The Museum to Come, Habitat, Journal of Absence: New York City, February–June, 2013 and The Pool. For each book launch, Bookieman organizes a unique event, such as: the seminar The Museum to Come at the MFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design; and, the Habitat exhibition at the Noga Contemporary Art Gallery Tel Aviv and Kunst und Kulturverein 2025 E.V Hamburg. Bookieman was founded by Nino Biniashvili and Omri Grinberg in Stockholm in 2009, and is currently based in Toronto. With the book The Sacrifice of Abraham Bookieman is collaborating with the local press: The Swimmers Group.

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