Francesc Torres: What Does History Know of Nail-Biting?

Barcelona-born, New York-based artist Francesc Torres (born 1948), a pioneer of installation art, is one of the most important European artists of his generation. In What Does History Know of Nail-Biting, which borrows its subtitle from Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the artist explores a body of work made by Harry Randall, a photographer and filmmaker who was one of 3,500 Americans who joined the International Brigades to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Many of the so-called Abraham Lincoln Brigade did not make it home, but Randall did. Forty-five minutes of 16mm film, shot by Randall between 1937 and 1938, becomes the material for Torres' new limited-edition artist's book, which explores what history looks like outside of concrete historical events, trying to capture the fragmentation and confusion that silently seeps through the official narratives of history.

• | Author: Francesc Torres
• | Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
• | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 88 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 8434313596
• | ISBN-13: 9788434313590