Nick Bantock's "The Museum At Purgatory"
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From the Creator of Griffin and Sabine
It is a catalogue of collections currated by the mysterious Non. These collections tell the stories of the lives of their previous owners and how in Purgatory they used their collections as a way of working through who they had been and why they needed to surround themselves with their hoards of extraordinary objects.
The Museum at Purgatory is basically like visiting a therapist in the afterlife!
Currator Non will guide you through such fascinating collections as:
Edward Fitzgerald's magic carpets which tell the story of Basa, a woman he loved but never chased.
Lizbeth Gazio's shrines and Navigational boxes.
Garrik Nathius's weird and wonderful board games, all invented so that he could compete with his dead twin.
Matrice Levant's spinning tops and his hoax history of spinning tops book.
Contents at a Glance
I've had The Museum at Purgatory for a couple of years and for some reason I never really got into reading it like I had the others.
I decided I'd take it on holiday with me this year and I devoured it within a couple of hours.
If you've never seen one of Nick Bantock's books before then I shall explain. Nick is an artist and accompanying his stories are full colour glossy images of his art, be they collage, paintings, illustrations or assemblage.
As an artist and a writer this idea of using my art to tell a story really appeals to me.
Urgent 2nd Class
By Nick Bantock.
Urgent 2nd Class: Creating Curious Collage, Dubious Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera
Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 06/03/2012)![]()
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