Connoisseurs & Academies by Karen Knorr
First Edition/ First Impression
Singed by Artist
Hardback in dust sleeve, Condition new
About
Karen Knorrs photographic seriesConnoisseurs & Academiesinduce a kaleidoscope of memories: Photographed between 1986 and 2005 with an analog camera, her images let us venture into the intricate world of the history of museums and stately homes, of objects, paintings, connoisseurship, and the structures of academies. The use of animals as an allegorical motif is today embedded in Knorrs practice, but they first appear in Connoisseurs, where a chimpanzee becomes theGenius of the Place.
Karen Knorrs (b. 1954) works are in the collections of the Tate and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Muse dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, SFMOMA, San Francisco, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) in Bangalore, among others.
