Description
Starstruck: An American Tale maps the artist Shimon Attie’s newest project, a cut through the layers of America past and present at the site of the historic steel town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The monograph documents Attie’s multi-year project of excavating stories of the city by filming community members, clothed in contemporary and historical dress, transiting iconic local buildings and topography – and the resulting exhibition at the Lehigh University Art Galleries, anchored by a two-channel video and a modified scaled facsimile of Bethlehem’s 90-foot-tall lighted sculptural representation of the biblical Star of Bethlehem, a civic project from the 1930s that overlooks the city from above to this day. The book is published together with the Lehigh University Art Galleries.
Shimon Attie (Author), Nicholas Sawicki (Editor), William B Crow, Hannah Klemm, Ed Simon (Contributors), Hardback, 28 × 23 cm | 11 × 9 in, 128 pages.
