Bourgeois scholarship as disguise: Fake books are objects that simulate the most important carriers of knowledge and culture by subverting fundamental functions such as visualisation, information or entertainment.
Most of these book simulators are beautiful containers, which serve for storing - or hiding - approximately everything.
The viewer is always confronted by the discrepancy between appearance and being, between form and function.
Armin M ller has collected book dummies of very differ.
| Disguise | Fake books are objects that simulate the most important carriers of knowledge and culture by subverting fundamental functions such as visualisation information or entertainment |
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Benteli Verlags Fake books: the art of bibliophilic deceit, hardcover/armin müller
