{"product_id":"thomas-demand-lesprit-descalier-9783865602107","title":"Thomas Demand: l'Esprit d'Escalier","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thomas Demand | Ulrich Baer | Dave Eggers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Walther Konig Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Artists - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStairs, ladders and lifts are the motifs of Thomas Demand's latest monograph, \u003ci\u003eL'Esprit d'Escalier\u003c\/i\u003e, which is published on the occasion of his show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. The title actually refers to so-called \"staircase wit,\" that concise French expression for the chagrin of missed retorts--those hapless comebacks one only ever thinks up belatedly (i.e. when already descending the stairs): \"I should've said (fill in blank)!\" etc. One of Demand's ironic allusions to his title is a new work titled \"Landing,\" which shows the shards of broken Qing vases on a staircase--a mishap caused by a visitor to The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge in January 2006, who stumbled on his shoelaces and crashed into the three eighteenth-century vases, smashing them to pieces. As ever, Demand combines conceptual rigor and exacting craft in his painstakingly re-created sets, with their eerie edge of artifice. \u003ci\u003eL'Esprit d'Escalier\u003c\/i\u003e presents an overview of his current work in 23 large photographs, plus a film project and an architectural installation specially prepared for his Irish Museum exhibition. Alongside an excerpt from David Foster Wallace's \u003ci\u003eGirl with Curious Hair\u003c\/i\u003e, it also includes commissioned writings by Dave Eggers, Paul Oliver, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Leith, Rachael Thomas and Enrique Juncosa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walther Konig Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47999794086039,"sku":"9783865602107","price":5064.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783865602107.webp?v=1783601762","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/thomas-demand-lesprit-descalier-9783865602107","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}