Book description
"Akasegawa is the kind of artist who inspires everybody every time he makes a new piece of art." -Yoko Ono
In the 1970s, estranged from the institutions and practices of high art, avant-garde artist and award-winning novelist Genpei Akasegawa (1937-2014) launched an open-ended, participatory project to search the streets of…
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1 author picked Hyperart as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book wryly celebrates a certain kind of found art, those things that linger in view (and are often expensively maintained) even after they’ve become entirely useless, “thomassons,” named for the professional baseball player Gary Thomasson, who went hitless for two seasons and nearly broke the strikeout record.
After I read this book, I saw my city, at the time NYC, differently. Everywhere I walked, I noticed things I’d never clocked–staircases that no longer led anywhere that were nonetheless patched and repaired, fences swallowed by trees still being repainted.
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