{"product_id":"dag-erik-elgin-uwe-fleckner-9783864422942","title":"DAG Erik Elgin: Mirror Falling from the Wall","description":"Since 1986, in his\u003ci\u003e Originals\u003c\/i\u003e series, Dag Erik Elgin has devoted himself as a re-creating painter to his own admittedly subjective, but not unusual, canon of modern painting. In the series he repeats the selected works, all of them Modernist or Clas­sical Modernist, but without pursuing maximum ­authenticity in the copying manner of an art forger. The resulting canvases are at the boundary be­tween complete appropriation and studying replica; in them, Elgin relives as a painter the processes where­by the actual originals arose, but at the same time uses them to generate an intellectual reflection on the sensitive topics of ­original and forgery. His \u003ci\u003eOriginals\u003c\/i\u003e are aesthetically attrac­­t­ive, yet--as forgeries--they would not withstand a critical autopsy in the art market, for their materials and manner of production in no way disguise the fact that they have been created in the present. Yet it is the painting itself, the in­sistence on a personal ­product in oil on canvas, that makes the \u003ci\u003eOriginal\u003c\/i\u003e an original in an age of perfected digital opportunities for appro­pri­ation, which would outdo any artisanal transfer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Uwe Fleckner,Gabriele Knapstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3864422949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783864422942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Snoeck Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.20h x 8.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Uwe Fleckner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48446436442367,"sku":"9783864422942","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ffda5f2c-7cd5-47a9-af50-6d6e33db5a4d.jpg?v=1777224617","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dag-erik-elgin-uwe-fleckner-9783864422942","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}