PUBLISHER
Rectapublishers

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.25 x 12 in. / 152 pgs / 143 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/2/2002
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2002

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9789090153872 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CAD $40.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
NA ME

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Essays by Georges Bataille, Dan Cameron, Salvador Dalí, Milan Kundera, Domique Laporte, Gerardo Mosquera, Dieter Roelstraete, Peter Sloterdijk and Peter Bexte.

Borrowing its name from the ancient sewer in Rome, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye's new and improved "Cloaca" is a room-sized shit-making machine whose bowels process two meals a day, serving up a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy and disgust, high and low culture, man as machine and vice-versa, and the inversion of art semiotics. Many of these same concerns are processed in Delvoye's other work, like the life-sized carved walnut replica of a cement truck, the wood cabinet stocked with 32 circular saw blades painted with scenes in Delft China blue, and a herd of pigs tatooed by Antwerp's finest needle-men. Feces and other anal subjects are parsed in accompanying essays by such luminaries as Milan Kundera, Gerardo Mosquera, Dan Cameron, Georges Bataille and Salvador Dali.