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Try and beat this, Mars
Author
Title
Try and beat this, Mars / Matt Mullican.
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Paris : Onestar Press, 2003.
Physical Description
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 23 x 14 cm.
Local Notes
AOB has copy no.07/250.
Notes
Small, black and white, single-panel comic strip on recto, text on verso.
Limited to 250 copies.
Interior : black-and-white, Binding : glue bound, Cover : Paperback, color, glossy finish.
"Try and beat this, Mars is applied to a group of photographs taken from National Geographic magazines from the 1930's. They are meant to show how beautiful and strange the earthly landscape is. The works have to do with one's feeling as if they had been dropped into the world from nowhere. It's really strange that ANYTHING exists. NOTHING SHOULD EXIST."--Onestar Press website, viewed April 16, 2013.
Summary
"The inside is pictured science. I was interested in the depiction of a physical reality within the fictional framework of cartoons -- in a sense, going into where Superman lives, and breaking down that reality. Diagnosing the air and the water that exists within this comic book reality which we, as a culture, participate in. The atmosphere as it exists in the cartoon is related to the atmosphere of dreams and the atmosphere of pictures. Both the cover and the content of the book are from a series of works produced in 1974 around the subject of « details from an imaginary universe. » M.M"--Onestar Press website, viewed April 16, 2013.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 12, 2011
Subjects
Genre/Form
Artists' books - 2003.
Binding - Perfect bound.
Printing method - Offset.
Publication format - Monograph.
Literary format - Comic.
Visual analysis - Black and white.
Visual analysis - Illustrations.
Subject/context - History.
Subject/context - Humor.
Subject/context - Science.
Production format - Book.
Also listed under
Onestar Press.
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