Book review: Obsessive Consumption by Kate Bingaman-Burt

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Even if many people are already talking about it in these days, I couldn’t that not reserve to it a space here too.

It’s the new book by Kate Bingaman-Burt, the artist who 3 years ago began this original project to convert in drawings and doodles all her daily purchases and catalog them into monthly zines.

The idea comes from a substantial credit card debt (about $20,000), mostly comprised of little things that she bought. She started to draw all this stuff  together with her credit card statements, till the debit was repaid.

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I think that behind the originality of this idea there is also a cool irony that captures the reader’s curiosity as well as a sort of search of meanings and study of  messages that are part of products we buy.

You can have this cool book directly from Kate (signed book + 1 original daily drawing), Amazon, Papress or Powell’s at this link.

Italiano

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Anche se molte perosne stanno ne già parlando in questi giorni, non potevo non riservargli anche io uno spazio qui.

E’ il nuovo libro di Kate Bingaman-Burt, l’artista che 3 anni fainiziò questo originale progetto di convertire in disegni tutti i suoi acquisti quitidiani e catalogarli in magazine mesili.

L’idea le venne da un sostanzioso debito (circa 20,000 dollari) , prevalentemente composto da tutte le piccole cose che acquistava. Iniziò così a disegnare tutte queste cose assieme ai resoconti delle spese effettuate con le carte di credito, fino a quando il debito fu estinto.

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Penso che dietro alll’originalità di questa idea ci sia anche una fresca ironia che cattura la curiosità dei lettori così come una sorta di ricerca di significati e studio dei messaggi che sono parte dei prodotti che acquistiamo.

Potete acquistare questo bel libro direttamente da Kate (libro autografato + 1 disegno originale dei suoi acquisti quotidiani), su  Amazon, Paperpress o Powell’s a questo link.

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