Collections
20 Regles et techniques utilisees en 1972 par un enfant de 9 ans / Décrites par Christian Boltanski
Books
FA.B131.3066
[48] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
1975
Children in art
Softcover.
"A nephew reminds Christian Boltanski of a number of childhood accomplishments which he has forgotten with age: how to manipulate cards and marbles, how to tinker, how to make paper airplanes, perform magic tricks, play hopscotch etc. Christian Boltanski feigns naivety and takes on the role of an ethnologist"-- from Christian Boltanski: Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991. Texts in French and Danish.
A parody, sort of, of anthropology or ethnography.
"A nephew reminds Christian Boltanski of a number of childhood accomplishments which he has forgotten with age: how to manipulate cards and marbles, how to tinker, how to make paper airplanes, perform magic tricks, play hopscotch etc. Christian Boltanski feigns naivety and takes on the role of an ethnologist"-- from Christian Boltanski: Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991. Texts in French and Danish.
A parody, sort of, of anthropology or ethnography.