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The Book Cover Goes Meta

First Posted: 08/04/10 12:13 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:15 PM ET

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One is given not just a hypothetical cover of the book, but an entire surrogate book as a manifested object residing in space. This may point to modern painting's preoccupation with the represented vs. the actual, or it may be some self-reflexive fetishism of books themselves, as if to congratulate the reader for picking one -- that one -- up.

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One is given not just a hypothetical cover of the book, but an entire surrogate book as a manifested object residing in space. This may point to modern painting's preoccupation with the represented vs...
One is given not just a hypothetical cover of the book, but an entire surrogate book as a manifested object residing in space. This may point to modern painting's preoccupation with the represented vs...
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05:40 PM on 09/15/2010
Huh?

I think they're talking about what I've been doing for over a year.

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