Handbook of the Spontaneous Other
2020
$41.00
Handbook of the Spontaneous Other by Aikaterini Gegisian. First edition (2020). First impression. Medium format hardback in new condition. Signed by Aikaterini Gegisian to title page. No markings. This is a new book. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
About Handbook of the Spontaneous Other
In Handbook of the Spontaneous Other, Aikaterini Gegisian brings together a diverse range of found photographic material produced in Western Europe and the USA during the 1960s and 1970s. Composed of a series of 59 collages, the book playfully recontextualises images from popular culture that Gegisian has sourced — from pornographic magazines, tourist catalogues and National Geographic spreads — in order to subvert the way that the body, nature and pleasure have been represented in Western capitalist fantasies.
Divided into nine chapters that follow a metaphysical narrative of colour and sensation, the book ultimately seeks to locate a ‘spontaneous other’; a notion of the self and of pleasure that exists beyond the confines of popular culture and its dominant modes of representation.
