{"id":186,"date":"2013-07-17T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T09:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthsacks.net\/?p=186"},"modified":"2024-09-09T22:39:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T22:39:59","slug":"false-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/17\/false-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Works (2010-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>An Extended Alphabet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Book Work,&nbsp;2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This artist book is a response to the Medieval bestiary <em>Der Naturen Bloeme<\/em> by Jacob Van Maerlant (circa 1350). While the bestiary categorizes and describes the known natural world from that time, <em>An Extended Alphabet<\/em>, lists a variety of elements from the contemporary built environment of the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the book online here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-c924db4d-8900-4f45-a7b1-9d7bcb2c67a0\" href=\"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/An-Extended-Alphabet_All-Pages.pdf\">An-Extended-Alphabet_All-Pages<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/An-Extended-Alphabet_All-Pages.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-c924db4d-8900-4f45-a7b1-9d7bcb2c67a0\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>An Extended Alphabet was produced by&nbsp;<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/expodium.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Expodium<\/a>&nbsp;(Utrecht), book designed in collaboration with CLEVER\u02daFRANKE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>False Friends<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Book Work,&nbsp;2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The storyline for this\u00a0detective book is based on Edgar Allen Poe\u2019s\u00a0Murders at the Rue Morgue\u00a0(1841). Unlike the original, which is set in Paris, the activities of \u00a0False Friends\u00a0take place in Antwerp (Belgium), in 2006, during a\u00a0time of racially-based political unrest.\u00a0The text was written in English and then split into 3 different languages. The narrator only speaks Dutch, the detective only French and all texts within texts are in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"444\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-14.png 444w, https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-14-173x300.png 173w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1007\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-15.png 1007w, https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-15-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-15-768x527.png 768w, https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-15-220x150.png 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read the book <a href=\"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/False-Friends_All-Pages.pdf\">online<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-0fa34c2b-f36b-4aa3-b626-8a153821a456\" href=\"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/False-Friends_All-Pages.pdf\">False-Friends_All-Pages<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/False-Friends_All-Pages.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-0fa34c2b-f36b-4aa3-b626-8a153821a456\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>False Friends was produced by the\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/kunstverein.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kunstverein (<\/a>Amsterdam), book designed in collaboration with Jaan Evart, Marc Hollenstein &amp; Stephen Serrato.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Extended Alphabet Book Work,&nbsp;2011 This artist book is a response to the Medieval bestiary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthsacks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}