[{"id":7610,"title":"The Nam","dimensions":"27.9  x 20.9 cm, 1000 p, language: English, publisher: London : Frith Street Books, ISBN: 0951495313","date_begin":"1997-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/642","stream_count_app":22,"permalink":"the-nam","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/017/264/large/Fiona_Banner_The_Nam_website_Banner.jpg?1368710637","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Nam\u003c/em\u003e has been described as unreadable. \u003cem\u003eThe Nam\u003c/em\u003e is a 1000 page, all text, flick book. It is a compilation of total descriptions of six well known Vietnam films: Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now!, Born on the Fourth of July, Hamburger Hill and Platoon. The films apparently never begin or end, but are described in their entirety, spliced together to make a gutting 11-hour supermovie. Banner describes the films as if she is there, not influencing the plot, but always on set running alongside the action.\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eThe Nam\u003c/em\u003e is a constantly present, seamless account of the films. You might say that this book is the ultimate unedited text, a world in which nothing is prioritised, but everything. As you begin to know, you only see what you see. \u0026#39;.....read at a stretch, Banner\u0026#39;s simple, clear prose is hypnotic, and as exhausting as sitting through a Vietnam all-nighter. The text cascades in front of our eyes, melding and merging, and we read Banner\u0026#39;s commentary as she\u0026#39;s watching...\u0026#39;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Adrian Searle, Visual Arts, The Guardian, 22 April 1997.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel is central Fiona Banner\u0026rsquo;s practice. 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Fred T. Jane founded the annual series \u003cem\u003eAll The World\u0026rsquo;s Aircraft\u003c/em\u003e, which has run continuously for over 100 years. He prepared himself by writing three science-fiction novels \u0026ndash; absurdist fantasies, each set in London, each dealing with time travel, and each destined for obscurity.\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe end of the nineteenth century was an appropriate time to be forecasting man\u0026rsquo;s dominance of the heavens, as well as his possible destruction, or self-destruction. By the time Jane\u0026rsquo;s \u003cem\u003eAll The World\u0026rsquo;s Aircraft\u003c/em\u003e made its first appearance in 1909, flying machines, which seemed far-fetched in the previous century, had moved from fantasy to reality.\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003eJane\u0026rsquo;s obsession with war and manned flight sensitised him to the technological developments that led to large-scale aircraft production and gave him the lead to capture the market for information about military technology. He had published his science-fiction works a decade earlier. First was \u003cem\u003eThe Incubated Girl\u003c/em\u003e (1896), then \u003cem\u003eTo Venus in Five Seconds\u003c/em\u003e (1897). \u003cem\u003eThe Violet Flame\u003c/em\u003e (1899), would be his final excursion into sci-fi, although he wrote seven other novels.\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003eJane lived to see the outbreak of World War 1, but not its conclusion. 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