{"id":7610,"title":"The Nam","dimensions":"27.9  x 20.9 cm, 1000 p, language: English, publisher: London : Frith Street Books, ISBN: 0951495313","date_begin":"1997-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/642","stream_count_app":22,"permalink":"the-nam","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/000/017/264/large/Fiona_Banner_The_Nam_website_Banner.jpg?1368710637","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Nam\u003c/em\u003e has been described as unreadable. \u003cem\u003eThe Nam\u003c/em\u003e is a 1000 page, all text, flick book. It is a compilation of total descriptions of six well known Vietnam films: Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now!, Born on the Fourth of July, Hamburger Hill and Platoon. The films apparently never begin or end, but are described in their entirety, spliced together to make a gutting 11-hour supermovie. Banner describes the films as if she is there, not influencing the plot, but always on set running alongside the action.\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eThe Nam\u003c/em\u003e is a constantly present, seamless account of the films. You might say that this book is the ultimate unedited text, a world in which nothing is prioritised, but everything. As you begin to know, you only see what you see. \u0026#39;.....read at a stretch, Banner\u0026#39;s simple, clear prose is hypnotic, and as exhausting as sitting through a Vietnam all-nighter. The text cascades in front of our eyes, melding and merging, and we read Banner\u0026#39;s commentary as she\u0026#39;s watching...\u0026#39;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Adrian Searle, Visual Arts, The Guardian, 22 April 1997.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel is central Fiona Banner\u0026rsquo;s practice. In 1997 she founded The Vanity Press, through which she publishes her own works including \u003cem\u003eThe Nam\u003c/em\u003e (1997), \u003cem\u003eAll The World\u0026#39;s Fighter Planes\u003c/em\u003e (2004 / 2006), \u003cem\u003eThe Bastard Word\u003c/em\u003e (2007) and\u003cem\u003e ISBN 978-1-907118-99-9\u003c/em\u003e (2010).\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.fionabanner.com/vanitypress/thenamhb/index.htm?i08\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"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":2035,"name":"Fiona Banner","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}