Cosmogonic Tattoos

by Jim Cogswell with contributions by Gunalan Nadarajan, Terry Wilfong, Kathryn Huss, MaryAnn Wilkinson, Claire Zimmerman, Karl Daubman, Daniel Herwitz and Raymond Silverman

Book cover: Cosmogonic Tattoos

Extent: 148 pages

Publisher: Kelsey Museum Publications

Subjects: Art & Art History, Book History, Conservation, & Museum Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2017)

ISBN: 9780990662372

8.98 x 12.48 inches

Price: $27.95

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Artist Jim Cogswell’s Cosmogonic Tattoos is an ambitious work of contemporary art created for the windows of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. based entirely on objects found in the two collections. Accompanied by essays and reaction from scholars and museum professionals. 60 illus, many colour.

Artist Jim Cogswell’s “Cosmogonic Tattoos” is an ambitious work of contemporary art created for the windows of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Drawing on imagery from both museums, “Cosmogonic Tattoos” liberates museum objects from their cases and pedestals to run wild and transform, dramatizing the complex and tumultuous ways in which art and artifacts go from creation to museum display. This handsome artist book, designed by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, contains a full photographic documentation of the installation, as well as the artifacts that inspired it, preliminary studies, and related work, accompanied by artist statement and essays and reactions to the work by artists, scholars and museum professionals.

  • By (author) Jim Cogswell
  • Contributions by Karl Daubman
  • Contributions by Daniel Herwitz
  • Contributions by Kathryn Huss
  • Contributions by Gunalan Nadarajan
  • Contributions by Raymond Silverman
  • Contributions by Terry Wilfong
  • Contributions by MaryAnn Wilkinson
  • Contributions by Claire Zimmerman

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