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Sophie Calle: True Stories (New Edition)
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The latest edition of Sophie Calle's classic artist's book features three new tales.
First published in 1994 and regularly reissued and expanded since, this new edition of True Stories returns with three new stories. Calle's projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life, but this book—part visual memoir, part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongings—is as close as she has come to producing an autobiography, albeit one highly poetical and fragmentary, as is characteristic of her work.
The tales—never longer than a page—are by turns lighthearted, humorous, serious, dramatic or cruel. Each is accompanied by an image; each offers a fragment of life. Calle herself is the author, narrator and protagonist of her stories and photography. Her words are sombre, chosen precisely and carefully.
She offers up her own memories—childhood, marriage, sex and death—with brilliant humour, insight and pleasure. By turns serious, hilarious, dramatic or cruel, these real-life stories represent a form of work in progress recounting fragments of her life.
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ISBN: 9782330182465
Publisher: Actes Sud
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 July 2023
Country: France
Imprint: Actes Sud
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 108.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 252g
Pages: 152
About the Author
Sophie Calle (born 1953) is an internationally renowned artist whose controversial works often fuse conceptual art and Oulipo-like constraints, investigatory methods and the plundering of autobiography. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Hayward Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others. She lives and works in Paris.
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