{"id":5223,"title":"The Marque of the Third Stripe","dimensions":"19.7 x 14 cm, 1079 p., language: English, publisher: Preromanbritain and Monitor Gallery, ISBN: 9780982139509","date_begin":"2008-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/816","stream_count_app":56,"permalink":"the-marque-of-the-third-stripe","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Alexandre Singh","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Artist Novel","nl":"Artist Novel","fr":"Artist Novel"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/009/712/large/Artistnovel_039.jpg?1342086543","poster_credits":"(c)M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York-based artist Alexandre Singh's Faustian novella reimagines the life of Adi Dassler, founder of Adidas, in a world of reversed time and geography in which America is the Old World, and Europe a new frontier populated by geometry-worshipping primitives. This limited and signed edition includes Singh's 1080-page Dictionary of a Synæsthetic Language, nine Wikipedia-style essays, the original story and 18 hand-tipped color photographs.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist’s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting is certainly at the heart of all the projects Alexandre Singh is involved with. A good story can hold a lot of weight. And by weight we refer to all those extraneous embellishments that it is an artist’s pleasure to invent and attach onto his project. Of course, once laden with these burdens we then need to take out our shears and begin to prune away. For a good story should also be elegant and trim.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Design: \u003ca href=\"http://emilylessard.com\"\u003eEmily Lessard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe faustiaanse novelle van Alexandre Singh, een kunstenaar uit New York, brengt een nieuwe versie van het leven van Adi Dassler, de stichter van Adidas, in een wereld van omgekeerde tijd en geografie. Amerika is hier de Oude Wereld, en Europa een ‘new frontier’, bevolkt door geometrie-aanbiddende primitievelingen. De gelimiteerde en gesigneerde uitgave bevat de 1.080 bladzijden van Singhs Dictionary of a Synaesthetic Language, negen essays in Wikipedia-stijl, het oorspronkelijke verhaal en achttien handmatig aangebrachte kleurenfoto’s.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn alle projecten van Alexandre Singh staat schrijven centraal. Een goed verhaal kan veel gewicht aan. En met gewicht wordt hier bedoeld: al die uitzonderlijke versieringen waar een kunstenaar zijn hartje aan kan ophalen om die te bedenken en aan zijn project toe te voegen. Na het laden van al die lasten moet natuurlijk wel de schaar worden bovengehaald en het overtollige gesnoeid. Want een goed verhaal moet ook elegant en keurig zijn.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOntwerp boek \u0026amp; cover: \u003ca href=\"http://emilylessard.com\"\u003eEmily Lessard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1853,"name":"Alexandre Singh","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}