Hammer Museum

“A letter always suggests a word, and a word always suggests a book. There are words that are for every day use and there are words reserved for the more special occasions, for poetry … To make a new alphabet of the discarded props of a conversation can lead only to fresh discoveries in language.” –Man Ray, born on this day in 1890

Man Ray, Alphabet pour Adultes, 1970. Book. 15 1/2 x 12 x 1 3/4 in. (39.4 x 30.5 x 4.4 cm). Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Gift of Stuart and Joan Levin.

“If a work of art can have a thesis, Receiver’s is this: our heavily circumscribed planes of existence may be pockmarked with minor frustrations and gutted with major tragedy, but, for now at least, humanity appears alone in the universe, and the stars are winking only at us.”

Happy 60th birthday to William Kentridge! A look at his illustrations for the book Receiver: http://bit.ly/1q5Z4rY

"The LA Art Book Fair will literally be overflowing with incredible artists and publishers, and the potential for profound reverie and deep insight lurks around every table."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

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Spotlight on Bullhorn Press, featured in the upcoming LA Art Book Fair: http://bit.ly/1CnOC4K

A spotlight on local artist Edie Fake at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair 2015: http://bit.ly/1AV9Bda

Receiver, an artist’s book featuring poems by Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska and images by William Kentridge, investigates what it means to be human through a complex stratigraphy of image and text. It poses and transposes questions about our shared experience in ways that speak to the problems facing the individual and the complexities shared by the group.

Read more: http://bit.ly/1q5Z4rY