David Hammons  The Holy Bible: Old Testament

What more appropriate strategy than to use a book on the inventor of the readymade as a readymade?

Stephen Bury, Art Monthly, March 2003, No264

Hammons brings his unique insight and wit to bear on what may be the most widely read text in the world, with myriad implications for the way we think about it and about ourselves.

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HAND/EYE PROJECTS are very pleased to present a limited edition artist's bookwork by David Hammons. The Holy Bible: Old Testament has been some seven years in the making, and is the artist's first published bookwork.

The publication is an appropriation of Arturo Schwarz's The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (softback edition), and has been rebound to resemble a bible - the details of which are as follows:

1002pp, 225 colour plates, soft cover, leather-bound, gilt edged, gold tooling, plus slipcase. Approximately 30 x 24 x 2.5cm in size. Weight 8.6 kilos. It is produced in an edition of 165.

The project has been supported by Arts Council England