Edmund de Waal: During the Night
This book was published on the occasion of Edmund de Waal: During the Night at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in Vienna. The 2016 exhibition, inspired by a drawing of a nightmare by Albrecht Dürer, was the product of three years of research into the museum’s collection—during which de Waal studied such remarkable objects as sixteenth-century corals and paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder—and explored themes of anxiety and the fear of the unknown. It was the second in a series of curated projects at the museum that was initiated with Ed Ruscha’s The Ancients Stole All Our Great Ideas in 2012.
Housed in a paper slipcase, the catalogue comprises a set of color reproductions of objects selected by de Waal on large double-sided cards with extended captions, including comments by de Waal, as well as a booklet with longer texts by Lisa Appignanesi, de Waal, Sabine Haag, and Jasper Sharp.
Publisher: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
Publication date: 2016
Contributors: Lisa Appignanesi, Edmund de Waal, Sabine Haag, Jasper Sharp
Designer: Rita Neulinger
Printer: Druckerei Walla, Vienna
Format: Thirty-one inserts and softcover in slipcase
Dimensions: Box: 9 1/2 × 11 × 1 inches (24 × 28 × 2.5 cm)
Pages: Booklet: 14
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-99020-124-4
