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By: John McDowall
Publisher: John McDowall
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Bradford?]
Language: eng
Subjects: Artists' books
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Artist's statement. "A book with sixteen folded leaves sewn on the open side, plus one front and back as covers. Images are printed full bleed on the inner face of each double leaf so as to be hidden until folded out from verso side of each spread. A written text running as a single horizontal line through the centre of the outer double page extends continuously over the fore-edges from page 7 to 22, the remaining pages blank. The images are stills taken from Alain Resnais' 1956 film essay on the Bibliotheque nationale, Toute la memoire du monde. The text recounts the hiding for safekeeping, during the war, of Waiter Benjamin's papers by his friend Georges Bataille at the Bibliotheque nationale and of the library's I'Enfer, a section reserved for books with erotic content, including works by Bataille.