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Kristin Bauer

This is Like That: 2017 - 2022
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This Is Like That: Kristin Bauer is a limited edition art book and object that archives the artist's work from 2017 to 2020. Designed collaboratively by Alexander Kohnke and Bauer, it features silk-screened acetate pages and a unique book jacket, integrating historic and contemporary references through print, silent film, marketing, and propaganda. The book includes insightful essays by Ginger Shulick Porcella, Deborah H. Sussman, and Rachel Zebro, alongside a dialogue between Bauer and curator Lauren R. O'Connell, exploring the cultural and visual discourse shaping the artwork.
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This Is Like That: Kristin Bauer is a conceptually designed art book/object that archives the artist's work from 2017-2020. It includes essays and dialogue from collaborating curators and writers, exploring historic and contemporary influences and references that connect the artwork to the zeitgeist.

This Is Like That: Kristin Bauer archives the artist's work from 2017-2020 in a limited edition book/object, designed by Alexander Kohnke in collaboration with the artist. It incorporates silk-screened acetate pages and a book jacket, with referential ephemera spanning print, silent film, marketing, and propaganda. This captures the materiality, form, and function of visual discourse in the artist's work.

The book features essays by Ginger Shulick Porcella, Deborah H. Sussman, and Rachel Zebro, along with an artist-curator dialogue with Lauren R. O'Connell.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777439464

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 June 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: 170 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Kristin Bauer
  • Edited by Deborah H. Sussman
  • Edited by Alexander Kohnke

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 1440g

Pages: 196

About the Author

Kristin Bauer, born 1982, is a nationally and internationally exhibiting multimedia artist who lives and works in Tempe, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California. Her work spans diverse visual forma, writing and research into communication, social psychology and semiotics.

Alexander Kohnke is a graphic designer and artist who lives and works in San Diego, California. His design practice focuses on artist's books and branding projects, mostly in the cultural and sports fields. Deborah H. Sussman is a writer and editor based in Tempe, Arizona. She has taught creative writing at the University of Virginia and Phoenix College, and developed and taught a course in writing art and design criticism at Arizona State University. Sussman has written for Art in America and reviewed books for the Washington Post; she is a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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