{"id":2455,"date":"2011-05-29T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2023-07-12T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T16:18:00","slug":"2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/05\/29\/2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 143 – 2003: Visionaire, Issue 41: World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cover\"<\/a>Published: New York, 2003<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea of a publication that changes format and continually morphs and redefines itself is intriguing\u201d \u2013 Variety<\/em><\/p>\n

Intriguing and continually morphing in every imaginable way, Visionaire <\/em>is an art and fashion publication issued in numbered, limited editions, three times a year since 1991. For each issue, artists, photographers, and fashion designers work with Visionaire<\/em>‘s editors to interpret a particular theme and produce a volume in a format that’s unique to that issue \u2013 and generally unlike any format encountered in a traditional print publication. \""Artist<\/a>Each volume is visually rich and pretty irresistible; you want to pick it up and look at it, touch it, even play with it. One issue of Visionaire <\/em>actually requires employment of your taste buds.<\/p>\n

The MIT Libraries own a number of these extraordinary volumes, and their diverse formats and themes illustrate the variety in the series as a whole. Volume 50 \u201cArtist toys,\u201d for example, consists of a set of 10 nesting dolls designed by Alex Katz, Kurt Vonnegut, R.Crumb, and other artists, while Volume 54 \u201cSport\u201d is a \u201cwearable publication\u201d housing 3 Lacoste polo shirts screened with photographs.<\/p>\n

\""Surprise"\"<\/a>The New Yorker<\/em> described Visionaire <\/em>as \u201ca creative playground for leading designers, artists, photographers, and thinkers. It\u2019s a gallery in print. A cabinet of irresistible curiosities. A daring iconoclast dressed to thrill.\u201d Volume 55 \u201cSurprise\u201d is literally a cabinet; its purple doors open to reveal several slim books. Each evokes childhood memories with its pop-up format, but each also has a decidedly modern artistic twist.<\/p>\n

The volume for 2003, entitled \u201cWorld,\u201d gives readers a glimpse \"Gap<\/a><\/em>into where photographers including Craig McDean, Nan Goldin, David Byrne, Satoshi Saikusa, and 150 other contributors from around the world live, work, come from, or simply like to be. The photos are bound in orange corduroy and housed in a matching Gap tote bag created exclusively for Visionaire<\/em>. MIT\u2019s copy is number 1370 of a numbered, limited edition of 4000 copies.<\/p>\n

Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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