
Taryn Simon. Birds 1 + 2
Set aus zwei Bänden: Taryn Simon. Birds of the West Indies + Taryn Simon. Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies
Hatje Cantz Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2016
Book
Hardback
1076 pages
978-3-7757-4140-8 (ISBN)
Description
In a meticulous and comprehensive dissection of the Bond films, artist Taryn Simon inventoried women, weapons and vehicles in Bond. The contents of these categories function as essential accessories to the narrative's myth of the seductive, powerful, and invincible western male. In Birds of the West Indies, Simon presents a visual database of interchangeable variables used in the production of fantasy, through which she examines the economic and emotional value generated by their repetition.
In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel's lead character. He found it "flat and colorless," a fitting choice for a character intended to be "anonymous. . . a blunt instrument in the hands of the government." In Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies, Taryn Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900-1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the twenty-four films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon's ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space-confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. This taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality.
In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel's lead character. He found it "flat and colorless," a fitting choice for a character intended to be "anonymous. . . a blunt instrument in the hands of the government." In Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies, Taryn Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900-1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the twenty-four films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon's ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space-confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. This taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ostfildern
Germany
Product notice
Cloth
Illustrations
577
0 Abbildungen, 577 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
ca. 577 Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 32.5 cm
Width: 22 cm
Thickness: 11.5 cm
Weight
5121 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7757-4140-8 (9783775741408)
Schweitzer Classification
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Taryn Simon
Birds of the West Indies
Book
10/2013
1st Edition
Hatje Cantz Verlag
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