Ruth Van Beek - The Arrangement - 2014

This is a very rare copy of The Arrangement by photographer Ruth Van Beek in excellent condition and published in 2014 by RVB Books. This beautifully designed and considered softcover publication is bound ina
soft buckram linnen jacket and features reproductions of 28 collages & 13 archive photographs created by Van Beek with a fascinating collection of books on flower arranging.

Van Beek has been collecting books on flower arranging for years including instructional books dating from the fifties to the seventies and is is specially interested in the translation of the strict rules and symbols of Japanese Ikebana into instructional books for Dutch housewifes in the form of this quirky, playful take on old-fashioned how-to manuals which creates its own particular world of dreams and nightmares, weirdness, futilities and beautiful coincidences.

Van Beek's work has been shown internationally with exhibitions at Post Books (Tokyo); The Ravestijn Gallery (Amsterdam), De Warande (Belgium), Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco); Foam (Amsterdam), Les rencontres d’Arles and Fotomuseum Antwerp and has been featured in magazines such as De Gids, The NewYorker, Vogue Magazine, Centrefold Magazine, Foam Magazine, IMA Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, The New York Review of Books, The Aperture Photobook Review, Elephant Magazine and The New York Times. She has also published numerous artist books.

ISBN: 979-1-09030-614-1

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