{"title":"Victor Burgin","description":"\u003cp\u003eVictor Burgin (b. 1941) is a British artist and theorist whose practice has moved between photography, text, film, and critical writing since the late 1960s. A central figure in the development of Conceptual Art in Britain, Burgin's work interrogates the ideological functions of images — how photographs produce meaning, how desire and power operate through visual representation, and how the spaces of everyday life are saturated with signs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis theoretical writing, including \u003cem\u003eThinking Photography\u003c\/em\u003e (1982) and \u003cem\u003eThe Remembered Film\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), has been as influential as his artistic practice, shaping debates in photography theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies across several decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications gathered here include exhibition catalogues, critical anthologies, and printed matter in which Burgin appears as artist, editor, or essayist. 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\/victor-burgin.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}