{"product_id":"fake-books-by-armin-muller-9783716518595","title":"Fake Books","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBourgeois scholarship as disguise: \u003cem\u003eFake Books\u003c\/em\u003e are objects that simulate the most important carriers of knowledge and culture by subverting fundamental functions such as visualisation, information, or entertainment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost of these \"book simulators\" are beautiful containers, which serve for storing—or hiding—approximately everything. The viewer is always confronted by the discrepancy between appearance and being, between form and function.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArmin Müller has collected book dummies of very different sizes, styles, and provenances from different eras: art-historically valuable, technically sophisticated, and historically exciting pieces, but also kitsch of all kinds. The imaginative and creative richness of camouflage and illusion seems to be inexhaustible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383794548972,"sku":"9783716518595","price":120.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6777263483511.jpg?v=1773380850","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fake-books-by-armin-muller-9783716518595","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}