Title: Scheinbücher : die Kunst der bibliophilen Täuschung : die Sammlung Armin Müller Winterthur = Fake books : the art of bibliophilic deceit : the collection Armin Müller Winterthur /
Authors: Müller, Armin; Weber, Bruno, 1937-; Vogel, Fritz Franz, 1957-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Müller, Armin Art collections.; Boxes; Dummies (Bookselling); Books; Boxes Private collections Germany Catalogs.
Abstract: Bourgeois scholarship as disguise: Fake books are objects that simulate the most important carriers of knowledge and culture by subverting fundamental functions such as vizualisation, information or entertainment. Most 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. Armin 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.