{"product_id":"lesson","title":"Lesson","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJarosław Kozłowski is one of the most influential Polish conceptual artists of his generation. For over six decades, his practice has been marked by an obsessive investigation into time and language. Extending this line of inquiry, this early artist’s book appropriates drawings and texts from E. Frank Candlin’s seminal English-language textbook “Present Day English for Foreign Students”, using its elementary phrases to probe the instability of meaning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo further disrupt the textbook’s relationship between word and image, Kozłowski introduces a photograph by Jerzy Jan Nowakowski, possibly depicting the artist’s parents, that replicates one of the manual’s illustrations. The domestic scene is first presented as a whole and then revealed in fragments, accompanied by the textbook’s instructional sentences: “Mr and Mrs Brown are in the sitting room”; “Mrs Brown has a pen in her hand”; “Mr Brown has a cigarette”; “The cigarette is in his mouth”; “The dog is under the table”; “The pictures are not on the table, they are on the wall.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Duchampian deconstruction of text and image that occupies a central place in Kozłowski’s investigations into semantics during this period.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54358528065875,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Lesson.png?v=1784569433","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/lesson","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}