A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST

Taking its title from one of Marcel Duchamp’s famous aphorisms, A Guest + A Host = A Ghost was designed by artist Josh Smith to accompany DESTE’s exhibition of the same name. As Smith himself states, “this book is intended to function as an art work; a small sculpture of a book. I wanted to make sure that each book maintained some individuality. When I put the book together, I wanted to make sure that the images did not detract from the book as an object. The covers on the books are all unique; I had the printer use preprinted scrap and test-sheets that had accumulated at the printing factory in New York where they were printed before being shipped to Greece for the exhibition.”

In 2010, the A Guest + A Host = A Ghost catalogue received the Specific Object 2010 Publication of the Year Award.

Year of publication:

2009

ISBN:

978-0-9818369-8-0

Paperback / 21 x 15 cm / 448 pages / Illustrated throughout