Here Lives Happily Mr. Poetic and Mr. Pathetic
Yehoshua (Shuka) Glotman
2000
This is a book that accompanied the exhibition of the same name at the Tel Aviv Museum curated by the late Nili Goren, and consisted of photography using various toy cameras, installation, sound and three-dimensional plastic elements. The catalogue is a kind of compilation that contains a cacophony to echo the multitude of expressions that appeared in the exhibition. Each group of works has a different type of paper, you can take out the booklets and put them back in. This is an artist’s book/catalogue, which seeks to eliminate hierarchies and offer the reader options for intervention. The text was written by the late Meir Agassi at my request, a year before he was killed in a car accident.
- Design: Noam Schechter
- Texts: Tali Tamir, Nili Goren, Meir Agassi, Mordechai Omer, Nidaa Khoury
- Translation: English - Daria Kasovsky, Arabic - Abraham Robinson
- Language editing: Hebrew - Miri Ḳarsin, English - Naomi Arnsberg, Arabic - Nidaa Khoury
- Type of binding: Hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 27X26
- Printing: Offset AB Ltd.
- Publication: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Yehoshua (Shuka) Glotman was born in 1953 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and lives and works in Abirim in the western Galilee. He is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and teacher, and is also a facilitator for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. Glotman studied in the photography department at Hadassah College in Jerusalem and the University of Westminster in London. His photography, photomontage and video work relate to the Israeli reality and its unique inter cultural situations. In 2015, he published a second edition of his artist book An Israeli’s Album, first published in the 1980s and became a cornerstone in the field of Israeli photography.
