{"id":5519,"title":"Portraits","dimensions":"16 x 12 cm","date_begin":"1995-01-01","material":"paper, plastic hardback cover","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":18,"permalink":"portraits","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/011/844/large/Muntadas_cat%288%29.jpg?1344849539","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"A collection of mouths speaking, singing, and shouting into microphones assault the reader in \"Portraits\", an album in white and black that shows an image serie that Antoni Muntadas has manipulated from pictures caught on the television or in newspappers. \r\n\r\nThe book explores the relationship between communication and mass-media culture page after page. The power of the symbols in our society and our reaction on them. The forms of exchanging information are transforming our way of life and our way to understand the world, concepts that are also a constant in Muntadas works. The serials and the repetitions of the same object are attacking the reader in this publication in the same way that mass-media does day after day, keeping the public away from reality."},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"Een aantal monden die praten, zingen en roepen in microfoons overvallen de lezer in *Portraits*, een album in zwart-wit. Voor die reeks bewerkte Antoni Muntadas televisiebeelden of krantenfoto’s. Bladzijde na bladzijde onderzoekt het boek de relatie tussen communicatie  en massamediacultuur. De kracht van de symbolen in onze samenleving en onze reactie daarop. De manier waarop we informatie uitwisselen heeft een impact op onze levenswijze en hoe we de wereld begrijpen – concepten die een constante vormen in Muntadas werk. De series en de herhalingen van hetzelfde voorwerp vallen de lezer in deze publicatie aan net zoals de massamedia dat dagelijks doen, waardoor het publiek ver van de werkelijkheid wordt gehouden. "},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":122,"name":"Antoni Muntadas","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}