Arnaud Maggs : identification /

"Arnaud Maggs: Identification is a survey exhibition that follows the senior artist's production over four decades. Focusing on seminal and recent works, it showcases the artist's various working strategies and subject matter. The show features his early portrait series, his monumenta...

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Main Author: Drouin-Brisebois, Josée, 1972-
Corporate Author: National Gallery of Canada
Other Authors: Maggs, Arnaud, 1926-
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada = Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, c2012.
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Summary:"Arnaud Maggs: Identification is a survey exhibition that follows the senior artist's production over four decades. Focusing on seminal and recent works, it showcases the artist's various working strategies and subject matter. The show features his early portrait series, his monumental photographic installations of found historical ephemera, the typography used in signage and numbering systems, as well as pieces that centre on rare books, including his own Scrapbook (2009), which is filled with the inspiring images Maggs collected while working as a graphic designer. "--Foreword.
Item Description:"Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... organized by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and presented in Ottawa from 4 May to 16 September 2012"--T.p. verso.
Exhibition catalogue.
Physical Description:234 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780888848987
0888848986