[{"id":7388,"title":"The Clifford Chadwick Clifford Collection","dimensions":"23.9 x 17 cm, 62 p, language: English, publisher: Birmingham: An Endless Supply, ISBN: 9 780957 061408","date_begin":"2011-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collectie M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/525","stream_count_app":19,"permalink":"the-clifford-chadwick-clifford-collection","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/000/016/866/large/Untitled225.jpg?1367314582","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on Lytle Shaw\u0026rsquo;s research for the Chadwick family, this book provides new access to the mysterious Clifford Chadwick Clifford \u0026mdash; anthropologist, spy, furniture designer. Galvanized by his early fieldwork on the sabotaging of British colonial outposts, Clifford disaffiliated himself with the Chadwick family by abandoning his given name, Thurston Huffington Chadwick. A prolific and provocative writer, Clifford became a countercultural legend before going underground in the early 1970s amid rumours of his ties to the FBI. Now, with the discovery in Zurich of a tape Clifford made as he disappeared from society, a far more detailed picture of this shadowy figure emerges. The tape\u0026rsquo;s transcript casts light on Clifford\u0026rsquo;s complex ties to the American government, his dramatic activities across Cold War Europe and the Middle East, and his collection of espionage devices encased within sleek modernist furniture.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Lytle Shaw\u0026rsquo;s words: \u0026ldquo;I discovered Clifford while researching Ernst Moir\u0026eacute;; Blachly and I are currently working on documenting his remarkable life and hope to exhibit objects from it soon.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://anendlesssupply.co.uk/work/the-clifford-chadwick-clifford-collection\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":7383,"title":"The Moiré Effect","dimensions":"17.9 x 11 cm, 125 p, language: English, publisher: Zurich/Brooklyn, NY: Bookhorse \u0026 Cabinet Books, ISBN: 978-3-9523391-3-8","date_begin":"2012-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/524","stream_count_app":22,"permalink":"the-moire-effect","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/000/016/865/large/Untitled224.jpg?1367313168","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErnst Moir\u0026eacute; was a mysterious Swiss photographer whose career has been obscured by silence, documentary voids, and misinformation. So much of his life is shrouded in speculation and half-truths that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm than the flesh-and-blood figure who will forever be remembered as the inadvertent inventor of the blur that bears his name. In 2002, Cabinet magazine dispatched literary scholar and detective Lytle Shaw to Zurich to investigate the reclusive figure\u0026rsquo;s life and work. Shaw published his initial findings in Cabinet issue 7, but the puzzle of Moir\u0026eacute; continued to vex him, and it is only now, a decade later, that the full story of his continuing investigation can finally be told. \u003cem\u003eThe Moir\u0026eacute; Effect \u003c/em\u003etracks the artist from his humble Alpine beginnings as the son of a postal clerk to his fateful founding of a Zurich photography studio in the 1890s and his subsequent role in the lives of a number of curious figures\u0026mdash;including the legendary Dutch architect Mer Aws\u0026uuml;mbildungs, the theosophist philosopher Rudolph Steiner, and several members of the old and fiercely secretive Chadwick family. Hailed by Harry Mathews as a \u0026ldquo;complex\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;excitingly\u0026rdquo; written book bound to \u0026ldquo;delight\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;entertain,\u0026rdquo; Shaw\u0026rsquo;s thriller takes readers on a journey through the elegant salons of Swiss palazzi and the dusty bowels of ancient archives, finally ascending to a mountainous conclusion as hair-raising as it is bedevilingly oblique.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Lytle Shaw\u0026rsquo;s words: \u0026ldquo;This began as an assignment (on the photographer Ernst Moir\u0026eacute;) for Cabinet Magazine, which was completely separate from my work, with Jimbo Blachly, for the Chadwick Family; I was, frankly, disappointed that the Chadwicks inserted themselves into my research process. But it couldn\u0026rsquo;t have been avoided. It remains to be seen how much Moir\u0026eacute; material will make its way into our curatorial work for the family.\u0026ldquo;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/books/shaw.php\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]