Main entry:

Barrada, Yto, 1971-

Title & Author:

A guide to trees for governors and gardeners / Yto Barrada.

Publication:

[Berlin] : Deutsche+Guggenheim, [2011]

Description:

122 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm + 1 sheet (41 x 30 cm folded to 21 x 15 cm)

Notes:
Issued in slipcase.
Limited, numbered, and signed ed. of 350 copies.
"Preparing the city for an official visit ranks among a governor's most important and imposing duties. This guide is humbly submitted by a concerned citizen to help governors and their gardeners create a spectacular welcome, and is illustrated with collages, charts, and photographs. It also proposes a radical innovation regarding the placement and spacing of trees along the route."--Page 4 of cover
Signed print loosely inserted.
Includes index.
"Preparing the city for an official visit ranks among a governor's most important and imposing duties. This guide is humbly submitted by a concerned citizen to help governors and their gardeners create a spectacular welcome, and is illustrated with collages, charts, and photographs. It also proposes a radical innovation regarding the placement and spacing of trees along the route"--P. [4] of cover.
Timeline -- Painting & cleaning -- Fruits, flowers & weeds -- Flags & music -- Charts & graphs -- The spectator -- Traffic islands -- Palm trees -- Index -- List of works.
Library copy: no. 53.

Summary:

"In the satirical tradition of Jonathan Swift, and riffing on Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, Yto Barrada's artist book is a guide humbly submitted by an anonymous bureaucrat describing how to prepare an unnamed city for a visit by a high-ranking diplomatic official. The manual consists of illustrated instructions, graphs, charts, collages, and photographs, and promises to 'reveal for the first time ... a radical innovation' in the method of placing palm trees along the visitor's route. Seemingly reasonable at first, these directives - on repainting sidewalks, making cardboard spectators and arranging palm trees to 'induce a state of euphoria' in the visitor - begin to suggest something amiss behind the patriotic Potemkin facades."--Publisher's website

Subject:

Visits of state Planning Humor.
City planning Humor.
Visites officielles Planification Humour.
City planning.
Tangier (Morocco) Pictorial works.
Morocco Tangier.

Form/genre:

Artists' books.
Humor.
Pictorial works.

Added entries:

Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.
Autographs. Barrada, Yto, 1971-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277658
Call No.: TR140.B268.A35 2011
Status: Available

Location: Library main 277672
Call No.: TR140.B268.A35 2011
Copy: slipcase
Status: Available