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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Design firm
Design Writing Research (New York, New York)
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996
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Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life was published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
When is a still life no longer a still life? This is one of the questions posed in the catalogue. In Domenico Gnoli’s painting Without a Still Life (1966), the empty tabletop serves as the perfect setting for a typographic still life. The painting becomes a tablula rasa where the words “still life” are no longer words but are transformed into objects with the metallic sheen of candlesticks or flatware.