Ana and Carl and Some Other Couples

Résumé du livre

Tiré du site Internet http://www.andrewroth.com/exhibitions/ana-and-carl-and-some-other-couples/: ""Ana and Carl and some other couples" presents a printout of an article published in the New York Times on February 12, 1988, detailing Carl Andre's acquittal on the charges that he pushed his wife, Ana Mendieta, to her death from the window of their 34th-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. In addition, 126 books - their subjects culled from the humanities and social sciences - are gridded on the floor in five rows, uniformly arranged so that the writing on the covers can be read left to right. The effect is simultaneously that of a Minimalist floor sculpture and of a continuous, linear text. Each of the 126 books has been cut through with circular holes, one to four inches in diameter. Embedded within these holes, at varying depths, is imagery extracted from 1960s and 1970s pornography magazines, exhibiting a variety of positions and possibilities within human sexual interaction - a catalogue of fetishes."