{"product_id":"art-language-too-dark-to-read-musee-art-moderne-lille-metropole-2002","title":"ART \u0026 LANGUAGE — Too Dark to Read: motifs rétrospectifs 2002–1965. Musée d’art moderne Lille Métropole, 2002","description":"\u003cp\u003eMusée d’art moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, 26 January–20 May 2002. Original folded exhibition guide and invitation. Colour and monochrome offset printing on coated stock, 10 × 15 cm folded, 30 × 15 cm unfolded. Six-panel concertina fold with reproductions, institutional text in French, English and Dutch, and visitor map to reverse. Accompanied by a separate loose square notice, 12 × 12 cm, relating to the exhibition publication and its forthcoming CD-ROM.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very good. Light handling and minor edge wear. The loose insert has slight creasing and surface marking consistent with its placement inside the folded guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounded in Coventry in 1968, Art \u0026amp; Language developed through conversation, theoretical writing, indexing and publication rather than a single recognisable visual style. By the late 1970s the practice had consolidated around Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden, working closely with critic and art historian Charles Harrison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe retrospective did not arrange that history as a settled sequence. Earlier works appeared beside later revisions, partial repetitions and deliberately altered versions, turning the survey back upon the collective’s own systems of classification and remembrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe loose notice extends that structure beyond the exhibition. It announces that the catalogue’s Mac\/PC CD-ROM — containing hundreds of reproductions and theoretical texts — was not yet ready and would be posted later to purchasers. The retrospective was therefore distributed in stages: museum, folded guide, printed book, promised digital archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely backed and tracked from the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musée d’art moderne Lille Métropole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54010247840082,"sku":"ARTLANGUAGE-LILLEMAM-INV-2002","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Art_Language._Show_invite_too_dark_to_read_._2002.jpg?v=1784178641","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/art-language-too-dark-to-read-musee-art-moderne-lille-metropole-2002","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}