"What is the Use of a Book," Thought Alice, "without Pictures or Conversations?"
Catalogue
- Year
- 2004
- Dimensions
- Each: 21 x 24 x 2 1/2" (53.3 x 61 x 6.4 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Thomas Locher
Artist
Mixed Media
Thomas Locher is a German artist born in 1956 whose practice engages language, systems, and institutional critique through text-based installations and conceptual works. Working across photography, typography, and site-specific interventions, he examines how meaning is constructed, circulated, and controlled within social and economic structures. His work reflects a postwar German interest in demystifying authority and revealing the ideological frameworks embedded in everyday communication and display systems.
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"What is the Use of a Book," Thought Alice, "without Pictures or Conversations?"
2004 · Printed synthetic polymer sheet stapled to printed paper in plexiglass box
"What is the Use of a Book," Thought Alice, "without Pictures or Conversations?"
2004 · Printed synthetic polymer sheet stapled to printed paper in plexiglass box
"What is the Use of a Book," Thought Alice, "without Pictures or Conversations?"
2004 · Printed synthetic polymer sheet stapled to printed paper in plexiglass box
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- Thomas Locher
- Year
- 2004
- Dimensions
- Each: 21 x 24 x 2 1/2" (53.3 x 61 x 6.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-2004-M080386
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Status
- verified