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Book Review 1

2/18/2013

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I got my hands on this very interesting book the other day written by a Nobel prize-winning author from Turkey.   I had originally seen this book about a month ago at one of our local bookstores (Powells), and decided to go the "cheap" direction and check it out from my local county library.  The author gives you a great visual tour of a museum that he has created and opened in Istanbul...The Museum of Innocence.  For you fellow assemblage/mixed media artists, you'll appreciate his amazing collection of ephemera from his childhood...many of those items that he then put into boxes, all of which help to tell the stories from his past.  


"Beautifully designed vitrines, or boxes, containing carefully arranged collections of objects, carry the visitor along the arc of the story, on a journey through time and space as well as into the mind of the collector himself..."


You can do a simple online image search for yourself to see more of the work in this museum.  A few of those images:
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The book is available for purchase at Amazon!
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Kathie Vezzani link
3/20/2013 01:12:35 am

Wouldn't you love to get your hands on some of those items!?

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Greg
3/20/2013 03:54:04 am

I'd love to make a trip to Turkey specifically just to see this museum! I've had to return my copy of this book to the library, but will probably check it out again sometime in the future (or maybe I'll just buy my own copy).

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