Masterfully conceived and crafted, the eleven pairs of objects designed by Jonathan Bonner to fit into an individual's trouser pockets are also completely preposterous in their functionality. Graphite and glass pocket balls pop out awkwardly from the leg, circular pocket magnets provide a novel way of carrying scissors, wrenches, and screwdrivers. Ice pocket mounds melt, pointy pocket weasels create holes, and pocket air bags bulge. In deadpan images that mock product photography and industrial publications, Bonner plays ...
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Masterfully conceived and crafted, the eleven pairs of objects designed by Jonathan Bonner to fit into an individual's trouser pockets are also completely preposterous in their functionality. Graphite and glass pocket balls pop out awkwardly from the leg, circular pocket magnets provide a novel way of carrying scissors, wrenches, and screwdrivers. Ice pocket mounds melt, pointy pocket weasels create holes, and pocket air bags bulge. In deadpan images that mock product photography and industrial publications, Bonner plays mischievously with the relationship of function to design, advertising to reality, sobriety of approach to hilarity of conception, proving himself much more interested in the long-standing relationship of hands to pockets and genitals than in the idea of usefulness.
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Add this copy of Jonathan Bonner: Front Pockets to cart. $7.06, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Museum of Art, Rhode Island Scho.
Publisher:
Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design
Published:
2002
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18071052645
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
Add this copy of Jonathan Bonner: Front Pockets to cart. $34.78, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Museum of Art, Rhode Island Sc.
Add this copy of Front Pockets: Jonathan Bonner to cart. $21.00, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Rhode Island School of Design.
Publisher:
Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design
Published:
2001
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17967430553
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VG. Three-quarters card boards with gray cloth spine, unpaginated, many BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2001-2002 exhibition featuring work by American artist Jonathan Bonner (b. 1947). With an afterword by Judtih Tannenbaum, an exhibition list, and many BW photographs from the gallery.
