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Out of the Box

A Celebration of Contemporary Box Art


  • T & H Distributed
  • by Tom Buchanan, Sarah Lea
Out Of The Box is a collection of 100 creatives, globally, from professional practitioners to those living and working outside society's mainstream. It captures the remarkably diverse spirit of this unique art form, from the working concepts and executions to the very artists themselves. And it's no respecter of boundaries, refusing to be categorised; it's fine art and design, decorative and serious, artefact and artifice.

ISBN 9781999858384 | EN | HB
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Publisher T & H Distributed
ISBN 9781999858384
Author(s) by Tom Buchanan, Sarah Lea
Publication date September 2022
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 240 x 168 mm
Pages 336
Language(s) English ed.
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A visual celebration of 100 of the best examples of contemporary box art from around the world.

From Duchamp‘s Kunstkammer to the avian works of Joseph Cornell, box art re-invents the ordinary and stimulates an endless journey of discovery of both the self and the world around us.

Out Of The Box celebrates objects, collecting, the everyday and the mischievous staged craft of illusion – “Deceptive Receptacles” in the words of artist Frank Jennings, small discoveries that can surprise and take you places.

Out Of The Box is a collection of 100 creatives, globally, from professional practitioners to those living and working outside society’s mainstream. It captures the remarkably diverse spirit of this unique art form, from the working concepts and executions to the very artists themselves. And it’s no respecter of boundaries, refusing to be categorised; it’s fine art and design, decorative and serious, artefact and artifice.

The very accessibility of box art, touching all aspects of our lives and our daily rituals of rationalising and organising, stimulates an empathetic response. We live, arrange, watch and rest in death in boxes – and in so doing, we face and overcome, before we finally succumb to, the absurdity of life.

Out Of The Box is built on over five years of research and the curating and documenting of collective Box Art exhibitions and events by Tom Buchanan, meticulously recorded by photographer Peter Mallet and with graphic design by Stuart Tolley. It includes a written contribution by leading curator Sarah Lea.

Out of the Box

Out of the Box

€65.50