BOOK FORMAT
Flexi, 8 x 10 in. / 116 pgs / 83 color / 11 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2009
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 99

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788791607622 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CAD $54.00 GBP £35.00

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In stock

TERRITORY
WORLD

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Humlebæk, Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 11/08/08-02/15/09

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Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation: The Rape of the Sabine Women

Text by Helle Crenzien, Michael Juul Holm.

Brooklyn-based Eve Sussman founded the Rufus Corporation, an ad hoc group of artists, dancers, actors and musicians who create videos, photographs and live events, in 2003. This volume compiles film stills from two works for which Sussman and her collaborators are most known. "89 Seconds at Alcázar" (2004) is a high-definition video tableau inspired by Diego Velázquez's painting "Las Meninas" (1656). The piece focuses on the 89 seconds when the Spanish royal family and their courtiers would have been in the exact configuration portrayed in the painting. The Rape of the Sabine Women--featuring a mesmerizing score composed by Jonathan Bepler--is an allegorical video that conflates the myth of Romulus' founding of Rome with David's painting "Intervention of the Sabine Women" (1796-99). It is set in an idealized, cinematic version of the 1960s that includes G-men and a decadent party in a chic International Style summer home.