John Divola’s The Green of this Notebook is an artist’s book based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness in which Sartre attempted, in the abstract, to examine the essential nature of being – and in doing so, he repeatedly illustrates his ideas with experiential examples. In The Green of this Notebook, Divola presents a series of related double pages. The images on the left are pages from Sartre’s book, with Sartre’s examples highlighted. On the right are photographs that have been made to correspond to the example. The book opens with the highlighted text, “I am on a narrow path – without a guard rail – which goes along a precipice.” with Divola’s corresponding photograph opposite. The literal relationship of image/text combinations continues throughout the book, ending with, “If I eat pink cake, the taste of it is pink.”

The Green of this Notebook is limited to 500 numbered copies and will no doubt soon become very collectible like other John Divola books.

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