Posted on Dec 23, 2009
Publication date: February 2010.
Hardcover, 128 pages, 8" × 12".
Body and display type: Minion.
Caption type: Absara Sans.
The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy; produced for FRAME by Marquand Books, designed by Zach Hooker. Distributed by Yale University Press. This is the catalog for a touring exhibition of sculptures from the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, whose reign lasted from 1404 to his death in 1419. The exhibition was organized by FRAME, and has an impressive touring schedule which begins at the Met in March of 2010, visits six additional US museums including LACMA and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, then returns to France to show at the Musée du Cluny in Paris in 2012, after which the objects will return to their home at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Dijon.
The book features a large plate section that shows each of the sculptures, many of them in multiple views, against a simple black background. These pieces are incredibly evocative, a little surreal, and intensely beautiful.






