A Surreal Archive: The Young-Mallin Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

A Surreal Archive: The Young-Mallin Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Art--Collectors And Collecting

Surrealism--Archival Resources

Artists' Books--New York--Specimens

This moveable artists' book is inspired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art's archive of Surrealist photographs, correspondence, ephemera, and artwork. Opening this book reveals digital reroductions of objects from the archive, a pop-up dollhouse, envelopes filled with small cards, and hidden inserts. Designed and produced by Tammy Nguyen, the book tries to imagine the original home of this archive: Judith Young-Mallin's home. The work highlights 20th-century cultural luminaries, such as Leonora Carrington, Bill Copley, Robert Warner, Man Ray, M. F. K. Fisher, Carol Janeway, Ossip Zadkine, Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy, and Kay Sage. This artist's book is accompanied by a booklet about the designer, Tammy Nguyen, and Judith Young-Mallin.

Edition 242:200

Nguyen, Tammy

Mallin, Judith, 1937 - [Judith Young-Mallin]

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia, PA

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Structure/Folds: double gate fold, half-fold, moveable, inserts. Issued in velvet-trimmed box.

Dimensions: 16 unnumbered pages; 28 x 23 x 3 cm (closed)

artists' books (books)

Twenty-first century (dates CE)

2018

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

5 total views: front view, back view, interior view, overhead view, composite view