SUBSTANTIVE SPACES.(Kardanakhi Tataroba)(The Nameless Dead)(Book review)

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Publication Date: 01-MAR-07

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COPYRIGHT 2007 Visual Studies Workshop

KARDANAKHI TATAROBA BY CLIFTON MEADOR

CHICAGO: EPICENTER, 2006

88 PP./$42.00 (HB)

THE NAMELESS DEAD BY CLIFTON MEADOR

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT: PABA PUBLICATIONS, 2004

112 PP./$65.00 (HB)

Clifton Meador's most recent books move across the arid zones of the Republic of Georgia, into Bukara, Khiva, and Uzbekhistan, and through the interior spaces of abandoned monuments, occupied gardens and streets, and into the village of Kardanakhi. They do not depict these exotic locations so much as they move the reader-viewer through them. Meador's narratives create pathways up, down, across, along, and through the many spaces of the book that are the framework and substance of his designs. Few book artists have had as extensive and creative a dialogue with the codex as a dynamically structured space as Meador has over the last twenty-five years. He understands...

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