Artist''s book by Cornelia Parker with photography by Edward Woodman."''Lost Volume: A Catalogue of Disasters'' continues Cornelia Parker''s preoccupation with destruction. Following on from Cold Dark Matter, where - with the help of the British Army - Parker exploded a garden shed crammed with objects, Lost Volume: A Catalogue of Disasters uses the intimate form of the book to present several flattened objects that - through the use of trompe-l''oeil - appear to have been squashed between the pages of the book.

Parker crushes these selected objects in a press between sheets of heavy paper, creating embossed indentations and reducing the objects to two-dimensional representations of their former three-dimensional selves. The selected objects are seemingly unconnected; a contents page that includes objects not flattened in the book confuses matters further. The book is perhaps best read as a way of seeing objects - and the world - in a new light." -- publisher''s statement.