{"product_id":"irma-blank-milan-archivio-irma-blank-9783956794209","title":"Irma Blank: Eigenschriften, 1968-1973","description":"\u003cb\u003eA series of drawings by Irma Blank, reproduced in more than three hundred full-color images, with texts by art historians.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinguistic and visual representation intersect in Irma Blank's pastel-colored, script-like \u003ci\u003eEigenschriften\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eSelf-Writings\u003c\/i\u003e, 1968-73), a series of drawings considered the starting point of the artist's mature work. The cycle stems from Blank's experience moving to Italy in the 1960s from Germany, where she was born in 1934. No longer surrounded by her native language and unable to express herself through words, this form of writing became a type of escape for Blank. The slender lines of these works are reminiscent of writing, but one that is incomprehensible. Without any specific meaning, the work is pure sensation transmitted from the hand to the surface of the page, from the body to the work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside more than three hundred full-color reproductions of the \u003ci\u003eEigenschriften\u003c\/i\u003e works, this volume includes a text by Luca Lo Pinto examining the artistic and historical influences on Blank's cycle of drawings, considered \"an exercise of subtraction to reach a basic form of writing,\" while Douglas Fogle's essay looks at Blank's work through the lens of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage, in terms of a shared practice of repetition, as well as the work of the writers Robert Walser and W. G. Sebald.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Fogle, Luca Lo Pinto\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Milan Archivio Irma Blank\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3956794206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783956794209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sternberg Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.90h x 8.70w x 1.20d","brand":"Milan Archivio Irma Blank","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941533253887,"sku":"9783956794209","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4aadcdc0-9e4a-427d-921a-2d93c6d7a5cf.jpg?v=1681453467","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/irma-blank-milan-archivio-irma-blank-9783956794209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}