6/24/2023 0 Comments Ad infinitum books![]() ![]() The best way to locate books that may be of interest to you on our website is by entering a Keyword e.g., Cookbooks, Judaica, Abraham Lincoln, Plays, Film, and so on. We offer both new and used copies of books still in print as well as those that are out of print. The ten works in “Desert Maps” exist as hand-written drawings of black pen on gray Rives BFK paper and as site-specific cut-vinyl wall texts they are also printed along with the script from Ad Infinitum as an artist book, Ad Infinitum and Desert Maps. Ad Infinitum Books has been an Internet bookseller since 1999. The texts record the naming of significant landmarks encountered by travelers to these desert regions, recording their awe and misgivings about these new territories the lists are roughly arranged from the most positive and inspired to the most negative and terrified. The place names are culled from trail maps of national parks and other protected areas based on USGS topographical surveys. The Great Basin, Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts fall north to south from Nevada to Mexico and east to west from California to Colorado. The second half of the book, Desert Maps, stems from a series of subjectively edited lists of historic place names of geological features found within the four North American deserts. The argument circles round and round, nobody winning, nobody capitulating. Each in turn uses logic to trap the other in contradictions, trying to convince the other of the correctness of their own position. Adapted from the transcript of a video, Ad Infinitum presents the Beckettian dialogue between an Optimist and a Skeptic as they make their way across a desert landscape. Conceived during an artist residency at Art in General, New York, NY, this artist book collects together two separate projects to both document and expand on the original pieces.
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