Magazines

Softcover | 576 pages

Published by Purple Books, Paris, 1998.

Magazines is Claude Closky’s expansive artist book that mimics the structure and design of commercial mail-order catalogues, particularly referencing formats like La Redoute. Comprised of sequential, text-based and image-based works, the book plays with repetition, fragmentation, and consumer language. Through this dense and methodical layout, Closky critiques visual culture and advertising systems, presenting a view of media as both structure and subject. Features editorial contributions by Olivier Zahm and Alexandra Midal.

Condition: fair (damage to covers and general shelf wear)