{"id":33843,"date":"2014-02-24T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T13:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=33843"},"modified":"2014-02-24T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T13:13:50","slug":"an-inquiry-into-meaning-and-truth-2nd-edition-thomas-raat-onomatopee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=33843","title":{"rendered":"An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (2nd Edition). Thomas Raat. Onomatopee."},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (2nd Edition). Thomas Raat. Onomatopee.<\/em><\/p>\n

Second edition (November 2013 )<\/p>\n

Thomas Raat\u2019s An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth takes off from the cover designs of popular “egghead” paperbacks published from the late 1940s until the early 70s. The artist\u2019s repurposing of the predominantly abstract imagery of the jackets mediates an abstruse range of synthetic epistemologies (from \u201cfreedom and responsibility\u201d to \u201cthe law of civilization and decay\u201d) as well as the needs or demands of various book series and the branding orientations of the publishing houses that commissioned them.<\/p>\n

The accompanying essay by John C. Welchman discusses how Raat\u2019s work operates at the technical interface between abstract painting and visual construction and on the generic borderlines between art, design and the history of ideas; and how his intervention precipitates a salient crisis in the signifying assumptions delivered to non-figurative compositionality in the mid-twentieth century\u2014and its later reassessments. Prompted by an ethos of design that fronts the inevitability of reading, Raat\u2019s project asks how abstract signs have been organized as the future of a long and stealthy illusion.<\/p>\n

Editors: Thomas Raat, Edwin van Gelder, John C. Welchman and Freek Lomme
\ntext by John C. Welchman
\nGraphic design: mainstudio
\nPrinting: Lecturis
\nPhotograpy: Willem Vermaase
\nPages: 80 (Japanese folding)
\nBinding: Softcover
\nISBN: 978-94-91677-09-0<\/p>\n

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