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This lavish picture-book surveys Seth Prices ( 1973, Jerusalem) 200913 series of Knot Paintings, in which Price unites his signature vacuum-forming techniquean industrial plastic packaging process with a refined group of painterly techniques that include acrylic and oil, spray-paint, screen-printing, poured resins, and patterned fabrics. Museum Brandhorst director Achim Hochdörfer has written: Each Knot Painting introduces a fresh set of concerns: drawing and print techniques are integrated, slits are made in the surface, new ways of applying paint are tested. Painting becomes a node in a network of media-related and societal references. Price developed the books concept and materials in close collaboration with designer Joseph Logan, yielding an artist´s book in which the layout moves from extreme close-up to full views of these rich surfaces, while plastics and metal in the book´s binding reflect the materiality of the works.

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