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The Art of Clean Up

Ursus Wehrli /Geri Born /Daniel Spehr
Life Made Neat and Tidy
Swiss comedian and cabaret artist Ursus Wehrli loves organisation in the extreme. In The Art of Clean Up, Wehrli arranges a bowl of alphabet soup, a group of pool-goers, a spruce branch, and other elements of our chaotic world into neat rows sorted by colour, size, shape or type. This eye-catching work of inventive organisation reassembles the everyday world as you know it. An inexpensive gift book, it will appeal not only to designers and artists, but to anyone willing to see the world in a new way. Makes you want to turn page after page to see what Ursus will organise next...
The modern world can get messy. Fortunately, Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli is a man of obsessive order, as he demonstrates with eye-catching surprise in The Art of Clean Up. Already a bestseller in Germany, this compulsive title has sold more than 100,000 copies in less than a year, and the fastidiously arranged images have garnered blog love from NPR, Brain Pickings, swissmiss, and more. Tapping into the desire for organisation and the insanity of über-order, Wehrli humorously categorizes everyday objects and situations by colour, size, and shape. He arranges alphabet soup into alphabetical order, sorts the night sky by star size, and aligns sunbathers’ accoutrements – all captured in bright photographs sure to astonish even the pickiest of neat freaks.
Details:
ISBN:
9781452114163
Format:
Hardback
Page Count:
48
Dimensions:
27.90cm x 22.20cm
Publisher:
Chronicle Books

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