A photo of a softcover book with a craft paper-like cover. The title of the book is swarm by Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller.

A photograph of a spread of an open book. On the left there is a photograph of a big pile of green individually wrapped candies on the floor and against a white wall. Below the photo is a description of the work. On the right there is a close up photo of the individually wrapped candies densely packed and taking up the whole page.

A photograph of an open book spread. There is a painting that spans both pages. The painting has a cream background and thin black gestural lines creating movement and chaos. There are pastel blue and pink shapes scattered about in the painting. The painting is by Julie Mehretu.

An open book showing a vibrant, densely layered artwork filled with colorful flowers, patterns, and text fragments, interspersed with black-and-white striped dome-like shapes.

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Swarm

Description

From army ants and honey bees to traffic and suburban sprawl, this exhibition catalogue situates swarming as something both visceral and analytical, futuristic but also ancient and primal.

Modeled on a field guide, particularly in its binding, rounded edges and journal-like format, Swarm weaves scientific diagrams and artists' visualizations across 95 pages with full-color reproductions of the artworks.

Features artists Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Mark Bradford, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Peter Kogler, Julie Mehretu, Paul Pfeiffer, C.E.B. Reas, Matthew Ritchie, Michal Rovner, Jason Salavon, Shahzia Sikander, Sarah Sze, Fred Tomaselli, Siebren Versteeg, and Yukinori Yanagi.

Published 2005 by The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Softcover, 95 pages
9.75 x 7.5 inches

Contributors: Marion Boulton Stroud, Ellen Lupton, Abbott Miller, and William Smith

ISBN: 0-9724556-2-0