Venerable American Conceptualist Elaine Sturtevant has built a 40-year career with her copies of other artists' work. Fittingly, this clothbound artist's book with marbled paper draws upon Jorge Luis Borges' Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, an account--which indistinguishably blurs fact and fiction--of a translator who -re-creates- Cervantes' classic novel.
Venerable American Conceptualist Elaine Sturtevant has built a 40-year career with her copies of other artists' work. Fittingly, this clothbound artist's book with marbled paper draws upon Jorge Luis Borges' Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, an account--which indistinguishably blurs fact and fiction--of a translator who -re-creates- Cervantes' classic novel.