Transfiguration: Bashir Baraki, Vince Dziekan
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
This rare and highly evocative exhibition catalogue documents Transfiguration, a profound collaborative contemporary art project by prominent multi-disciplinary creators Bashir Baraki and Vince Dziekan. Published to accompany their historic 1989 dual-gallery tour—showing at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney and the Melbourne University Museum of Art (The Ian Potter Gallery)—the volume stands as an vital primary document of late-20th-century Australian avant-garde practice. The text acts as both a philosophical journal and a visual portfolio, mapping the intersection of performance, photography, and site-specific installations. Featuring a striking, expressionistic cover that juxtaposes deep black backgrounds with a vivid red spine accent and a stylized photographic figure, the book explores themes of psychological metamorphosis, physical presence, and bodily transition. Packed with original exhibition provenance, critical essays, and intimate production documentation, this slim catalog is a highly prized resource for curators, art historians, and collectors specializing in late-1980s Australian contemporary and lens-based art.
Author: Vince Dziekan and Bashir Baraki (with contributing essayists)
Format: Paperback
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
This rare and highly evocative exhibition catalogue documents Transfiguration, a profound collaborative contemporary art project by prominent multi-disciplinary creators Bashir Baraki and Vince Dziekan. Published to accompany their historic 1989 dual-gallery tour—showing at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney and the Melbourne University Museum of Art (The Ian Potter Gallery)—the volume stands as an vital primary document of late-20th-century Australian avant-garde practice. The text acts as both a philosophical journal and a visual portfolio, mapping the intersection of performance, photography, and site-specific installations. Featuring a striking, expressionistic cover that juxtaposes deep black backgrounds with a vivid red spine accent and a stylized photographic figure, the book explores themes of psychological metamorphosis, physical presence, and bodily transition. Packed with original exhibition provenance, critical essays, and intimate production documentation, this slim catalog is a highly prized resource for curators, art historians, and collectors specializing in late-1980s Australian contemporary and lens-based art.