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Il Corpo dello Stato

Il Corpo dello Stato Armin Linke - Il Corpo dello Stato
The body of the State (artist's book).
At the end of 2006, Italian photographer Armin Linke was commissioned by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities to realize a reportage. For this commission, the artist proposed a photographic mapping of all the institutions housed in various historical buildings in Rome. His research attempted to carry out both a documentation of and an inquiry into the characteristics of public institutions. The result is a portrait of the Italian State through the understanding of the architectures in which functions and ceremonies are performed daily.
Including excerpts from Giorgio Agamben's recent book "Il Regno e la Gloria," the publication invites a critical reading of the representation of power, while displaying very rarely seen interiors and details of the government's settings in an objective style typical of Linke's images.
Armin Linke (born 1966, lives and works in Berlin) is an artist working with photography, combining different mediums to blur the border between fiction and reality. He builds up an ongoing archive on human activity and the most varied natural and man-made landscapes.
Edited by Lionel Bovier.
Text by Giorgio Agamben.
 
published in August 2010
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
21,5 x 25,5 cm (softcover)
128 pages (72 color ill.)
 
29.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-03764-080-7
EAN : 9783037640807
 
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