{"product_id":"from-cross-to-crib","title":"From Cross to Crib","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis publication is devoted to a little-known temporary artwork: in the winter of 1973\/74 Paul Thek was a guest of the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg and his expansive environment \u003cem\u003eArk, Pyramid – Christmas (The Manger)\u003c\/em\u003e filled a whole room. It was the further development of his installation realized at the documenta 5 in Kassel (1972).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis exhibition, organised by the director of the museum at the time, Siegfried Salzmann (1985–1993), was the fourth in Thek’s series of atmospheric, large-scale projects in Europe, which engaged with individualised religious symbols.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe festive period provided Thek with the occasion to present, for the first time, a self-written theatre piece in the form of a nativity play featuring children from Duisburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA great quantity of original material and documents have been discovered in the museum’s repository and enable a reconstruction of the exhibition in this book, accompanied by an interview that Marietta Franke conducted with Edwin Klein, who helped with the installation in 1973. [publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357105693012,"sku":"A8B-23522","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/THEK_Cross_Crib.jpg?v=1790811535","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/from-cross-to-crib","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}