{"title":"Mark Dion","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Dion (b. 1961) is an American artist whose practice draws on natural history, archaeology, and the institutional systems through which knowledge is collected, classified, and displayed. Working with the conventions of the museum, the field expedition, and the scientific survey, Dion stages encounters between the methods of natural science and the logic of contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis projects frequently take the form of expeditions, cabinets of curiosity, and research archives — structures that mimic institutional authority while exposing its assumptions. The reading list, the field guide, the annotated bibliography: these are not merely research tools in Dion's practice but materials in their own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications gathered here include exhibition catalogues, artist books, and printed matter documenting Dion's work across institutions in Europe and North America. Original period items.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"simon-morris-helen-sacoor-bibliomania-1998-1999","title":"Simon Morris \u0026 Helen Sacoor — Bibliomania 1998–1999, 1999","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover publication. 120 pages, 17 × 22 cm. Published 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good vintage condition. Light handling wear and minor shelf rubbing. The marks remain part of the record: evidence of circulation, storage, handling, and transfer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in conjunction with \u003cem\u003eBibliomania\u003c\/em\u003e, a project that asked artists, writers, curators, and theorists to reveal the books that informed their practices. Contributions include reading lists, bibliographies, archival material, and exhibition-related documentation by figures including Mark Dion, Joseph Kosuth, Victor Burgin, Lucy Lippard, and others working around Conceptual Art, institutional critique, publishing, and information systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication operates somewhere between catalogue, library, exhibition document, and artist's book. Books become portraits. Reading becomes a form of self-description. Bibliography becomes exhibition material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParticularly notable are the reproduced reading lists of Mark Dion and Joseph Kosuth, alongside Michael Farion's unrealised exhibition furniture drawings, which extend the project beyond documentation into the design of how knowledge itself might be stored, displayed, and circulated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA publication about books, but also about the systems that organise them. The artist appears indirectly: through references, influences, annotations, and selection. Identity arrives as a shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn uncommon publication, more visible in institutional holdings than in regular commercial circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53624733106514,"sku":"MORRIS-SACOOR-BIBLIOMANIA-CAT-1999","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Harrison_Wood._Art_in_Theory_1900-1990._1999_front.jpg?v=1780373004"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/mark-dion.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}