Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy
  • exhibition catalogue
  • paper over boards issued without dust-jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28 x 15 cm.
  • 128 pp.
  • edition size 1500
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9781870699808

Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy

Mark Dion, David Lomas, Anna Dezeuze, Julia Kelly

Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy

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Artists'' book published in conjunction with show held at The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, Spring 2005. Texts by David Lomas, Anna Dezeuze, Julia Kelly. "Recalling the short-lived Bureau de recherches surréalistes of 1924–1925 -- part information centre and ‘public relations'' office, and part surrealist archive -- Mark Dion has trawled the Manchester Museum''s own collections and found the raw material for this book and a new installation in the museum. Museums'' attempts to classify and present the world in miniature inevitably mean that much of their collections are forgotten and marginalized. Renowned for his work exploring taxonomy, archaeology and ecology, Mark Dion in his Bureau documents his opportunistic encounters with the Museum of Manchester''s neglected drawers and overlooked recesses that are home to redundant labels, orphaned mounts, defunct teaching models, botanical freaks, Egyptian fakes and the minutiae that have fallen through the cracks of museum practice and lain abandoned. Dion''s Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacyis both a repository for the detritus of museum life and a working process, classifying the museum''s un-classifiable whilst exploring the bureaucratic workings of the institution." -- publisher''s statement.

London, United Kingdom: Book Works,
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