Unpacking my library : an installation

Creator

Spector, Buzz

Date

• January 1995

Publisher

Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art

Summary

• COLOPHON: " Unpacking My Library, An Installation by Buzz Spector" San Diego State University Art Gallery, October 1-21, 1994.
• All the books in the artist's library, arranged in order of the height of the spine, from tallest to shortest, on a single shelf in a room large enough to hold them.
• This or any other procedure is merely a dam against the spring tide of memories which surges toward any collector as he contemplates his possessions. Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking my Library," from Illuminations."
• Unsigned. Unnumbered.
• Three strips of paper attached to form a continuous strip, accordion folded that when opened shows a photograph of the installation.