{"product_id":"guy-bigland-all-the-paintings-in-the-museum","title":"Guy Bigland: All the Paintings in the Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover | 15 x 2.6 x 15 cm | 328 pp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuy Bigland | 2020 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e320gsm Popset Black iTone (cover)\u003cbr\u003eDigital HP Indigo print on 118gsm Eggshell White iTone (interior)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecond edition of 50\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll the Paintings in the Museum\u003c\/em\u003e presents the titles of all 1620 paintings in the collection of the Fitzwilliam museum (Cambridge, UK) as documented on the museum's website in early 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe words have been detached from the images they support and from their data-sets of artists names, dates and materials. They are corralled into a regimented list made of language informed by art historical conventions, clichés and the idiosyncrasies of individual archivists. The majority of the paintings in the collection would not have been titled by the artists as the practice of giving artworks ‘official’ fixed titles was established by dealers, collectors and archivists as recently as the 1800s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new grouping creates unexpected juxtapositions and suggested narratives while exposing similarities and anomalies. Some titles are unique, others find they are but one of many, some are just one word while others are over thirty words long. We are reminded that when subject to the systematisation of an archive, objects become to some extent a homogenised stream of data, fragments of a historic continuum. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGuy Bigland works with photography, text, books, print, digital media and painting to examine the mechanics of meaning, language and systems of order. His work is held in public and private collections in the UK (including Tate, V\u0026amp;A and the National Poetry Library), Europe and the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guy Bigland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47611897315586,"sku":"BK-GB-APIM-001-S","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_1045_d86e588b-653e-4489-bb57-388390f60d83.jpg?v=1775134807","url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/products\/guy-bigland-all-the-paintings-in-the-museum","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}