{"product_id":"9781937027834","title":"Erica Baum: Dog Ear","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in paperback in 2011, Erica Baum’s (born 1961) much-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eDog Ear\u003c\/i\u003e is now reissued in a beautiful hardcover edition with a wraparound poster cover. The concept of \u003ci\u003eDog Ear\u003c\/i\u003e is simple and straightforward: dog-eared pages of mass-market paperbacks are photographed to isolate the small diagonally bisected squares or rectangles of text. The photographs are formally quite neutral and sedate—cursorily reminiscent of Albers’ \u003ci\u003eHomage to the Square\u003c\/i\u003e series—but the text also demands attention and is what allows or coaxes the viewer to linger. In his introduction to the book, Kenneth Goldsmith asks: “Do we see them or do we read them? If we choose to read them, how should we read? Across the fold? Through it? Around it? If we choose to look at Baum’s pictures, how should we see them? As artistic photographs? Documentation? Text art?”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artbook - D.A.P.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040406421744,"sku":"9781937027834","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937027834_p0.jpg?v=1763659993","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937027834","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}