{"product_id":"dezasete-onibus-passando","title":"Dezasete Onibus Passando","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis slightly tautological artist’s book documents, literally as its title suggests, the passage of seventeen buses along Rua do Catete in Rio de Janeiro on August 4, 1975, between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. For this edition, photographs of their passage were reproduced using a Xerox 9200 in an edition of 50 copies, each differing in contrast and tone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe use of tautology in conceptual art is recurrent. Here, the term refers not only to the self-referential character of the work – its concern with its own status or existence as art – but also to the literal correspondence between the title and what is represented: the work enacts, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emot à mot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, what its title describes. In the field of artists’ publications, this strategy has been explored by Edward Ruscha (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVarious Small Fires and Milk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1964), Stanley Brouwn (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Way Brouwn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1971), Giovanni Anselmo (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeggere\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1972), and Joseph Kosuth (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePurloined: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 2000), among many others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCornelissen himself extends this concept in other travel-based editorial projects, including \u003cem\u003ePelotas R.G.S. \u003c\/em\u003e(1977), \u003cem\u003eStill an Hour to Go Before We Arrive in Milan \u003c\/em\u003e(1978), \u003cem\u003eEgypt\u003c\/em\u003e (1980), and \u003cem\u003eJourney Along the Equator\u003c\/em\u003e (1983).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54778436026707,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4549.png?v=1787993049","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/dezasete-onibus-passando","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}