Museum Bhavan

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Dublin Core

Title

Museum Bhavan

Subject

Singh, Dayanita, 1961--Interviews
Singh, Dayanita, 1961--Catalogs
Museums In Art--Catalogs
Artists' Books--India--Specimens

Description

This series of books is based on a exhibition of the same name, where photographs spanning Dayanita Singh's career were exhibited as a traveling family of museums. The book titles reflect this family: Godrej Museum; Museum of Men; Museum of Photography; Museum of Furniture; Little Ladies Museum; Museum of Machines; Museum of Vitrines; Printing Press Museum; Ongoing Cuseum; plus a text-based book called Conversation Chambers. Conversation Chambers includes discussions between Aveek Sen, Dayanita Singh and Gerhard Steidl.

Limited edition, edition size unknown.

Creator

Singh, Dayanita, 1961-

Publisher

Steidl
Göttingen, Germany

Rights

These materials may be protected under copyright law and may only be used for educational, teaching, and learning purposes. If intended use is beyond these purposes, it is the sole responsibility of the user to obtain the appropriate copyright permissions.

Format

Structure/Folds: accordion fold, clamshell box.

Dimensions: 10 volumes : 298 unnumbered pages, 241 images; 15 x 10 x 11 cm (box), 14 x 9 x 1 cm (volume)

Type

artists' books (books)

Coverage

Twenty-first century (dates CE)

Date Created

2017

Medium

The original object was photographed with a NIKON D300 digital camera at 300 ppi as a JPEG file format. The JPEG file was then modified in Adobe Photoshop.
Photographer Marie A. Andrews
6 total views: front view, interior view

Citation

Singh, Dayanita, 1961-, “Museum Bhavan,” Seattle Art Museum Libraries: Digital Collections, accessed March 28, 2024, https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/1475.