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Björk.

Björk. (Author). Biesenbach, Klaus. (Added Author). Ross, Alex, 1968- (Added Author). Dibben, Nicola. (Added Author). Sjón, 1962- (Added Author). Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (Added Author).

Summary:

"This exhibition is the product of the close collaboration between Björk and Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large and Director of MoMA PS1, to bring together a chronology of music, sounds, videos, objects, instruments, and costumes, which visualize and reflect the characteristics of the artist's main work-- her singing and composing"--Foreword.

Record details

ISBN: 0870709607
ISBN: 9780870709609
Physical Description: 5 volumes : color illustrations, music ; in case 32 x 25 x 4 cm.
Publisher: New York, New York : Museum of Modern Art : [2015]
Copyright: ©2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Catalog of an exhibition held March 8-June 7, 2015.

Includes one poster (folded sheet, 61 x 49 cm folded to 31 x 17 cm) consisting of 86 adhesive squares--each containing an image of a cover of a Björk recording in one of various formats, the whole displayed in chronological order from 1993 to 2014.

Cover of each volume contains musical notation of a Björk composition.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Introduction / Klaus Biesenbach -- II. Beyond Delta : the many streams of Björk / Alex Ross -- III. Björk creating : myths of creativity and creation / Nicola Dibben -- IV. This huge sunlit abyss from the future right there next to you... : emails between Björk Guðmundsdóttir and Timothy Morton, October, 2014 / edited by James Merry -- V. The triumphs of a heart : a psychographic journey through the first seven albums of Björk / Sjón -- VI. Poster.