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John Bock: Maltreated Frigate (Multilingual Edition)
John Bock Maltreated Frigate - Multilingual Edition Author:John Bock This sophisticated artist's book, with custom-cut cover and partially exposed binding, documents John Bock's 2006 action art piece, Maltreated Frigate--the height as well as the culmination of this rising German artist's performative work. Here, Bock's vision comes to life in a multitude of color illustrations composed and collaged by the... more » artist. The libretto, printed in its entirety, explodes in linguistic fireworks and tumbles down the printed page, solid in its earthiness and ready to be constructed into a jumble of bizarre and whimsical neologisms--vivid testimony to the artist's zest for expression. The Maltreated Frigate was performed as a spectacle in 10 scenes, a collision course of rock opera, theater of the absurd, animated sculpture and puppet show. This raucous volume invites the reader to accompany the artist and his protagonists along their tour-de-force, stream-of-consciousness action. It is a violent ride on a machine from hell, steered by an idiosyncratic inner logic.« less