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Fiona Banner: Tracy Williams, Ltd.
From: Artforum International
Date: 20060622
Author:Pasquariello, Lisa
As if Bouvard and Pecuchet (1881) rewound, Fiona Banner's work of the past twelve years has generally begun with copying and ended with epistemological inquiry. The profusion of words in earlier projects--which have included voluminous transcriptions of films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Don't Look Back (1967), and a "totally unedited" thousand-page book, Nam, 1997, chronicling the on-screen action in six Vietnam movies--recalled Gustave Flaubert's assiduous copyists, who don't discriminate between "the good and the evil" and "the farcical and the sublime" because, as ...
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