{"product_id":"9781913620219","title":"Golden Apple of the Sun","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile the essay is dense, historical, and full of personal reflection, the images themselves are simple and stark … [Cole] alludes to the still-life genre as a kind of autobiography, forcing us to consider what is at the edges of our own stories\u003c\/strong\u003e‘ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Agenda\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e‘\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA startling document\u003c\/strong\u003e‘ \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtnet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"font-avenir\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCole’s juxtapositions of form and content — words and pictures — make us freshly see the genres, places, and everyday occurrences we thought we knew.\u003c\/strong\u003e‘ \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMany artists have felt the lure of juxtaposing photographs and text, but few have succeeded as well as Teju Cole. He approaches this problem with an understanding of the limitations and glories of each medium.\u003c\/strong\u003e‘ \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStephen Shore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of the best works of art the pandemic has brought\u003c\/strong\u003e’ \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNRC\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003eIn the period leading up to the November 3, 2020 elections in the United States, Teju Cole began to photograph his kitchen counter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Working in the still life tradition of Chardin, Cezanne, and the Dutch masters, as well as such contemporary photographers as Laura Letinsky and Jan Groover, he photographed every day over the course of five weeks. Unlike those illustrious forbears, Cole left his arrangements entirely to chance, “the bowls and plates moving in their unpredictable constellations.” What emerges is a surprising portrait, across time, of one kitchen counter in one home at a time of social, cultural, and political upheaval. Alongside the photographs is a long written essay, as wide-ranging in its concerns—hunger, fasting, mourning, slavery, intimacy, painting, poetry and the history of photography—as the photographs are delimited in theirs. The text and photographic sequences are interspersed with an anonymous handwritten eighteenth century cookbook from Cambridge. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGolden Apple of the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e is a luminous and humane work, presented with the formal boldness and oblique intelligence we have come to expect from Teju Cole.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmbossed hardback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e19.3 x 25.3 cm, 136 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44562049106175,"sku":"9781913620219","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781913620219-us-300.jpg?v=1701194431","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9781913620219","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}