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by Cornelia Parker (1993)
Lost Volume: A Catalogue of Disasters continues Cornelia Parker's preoccupation with destruction. Following on from 'Cold Dark Matter', where - with the help of the British Army - Parker exploded a garden shed crammed with objects, Lost Volume: A Catalogue of Disasters uses the intimate form of the book to present several flattened objects that - through the use of trompe-l'oeil - appear to have been squashed between the pages of the book.
Parker crushes these selected objects in a press between sheets of heavy paper, creating embossed indentations and reducing the objects to two-dimensional representations of their former three- dimensional selves. The selected objects are seemingly unconnected; a contents page that includes objects not flattened in the book confuses matters further. The book is perhaps best read as a way of seeing objects - and the world - in a new light.
Lost Volume: A Catalogue of Disasters (Special Edition) is printed offset in an edition of 30 copies, 32 pages, hard cover with a slip case. Includes unique object that has been 'effected' by the artist. Designed by John Coles, photography by Edward Woodman, 245 x 250 mm.
ISBN 1 870699 11 4 - Out of print
