Auction catalogs can tell you a lot about a person--their passions
and vanities, peccadilloes and aesthetics; their flush years and
lean. Think of the collections of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
Truman Capote, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
In Leanne Shapton's marvelously inventive and invented auction
catalog, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the
relationship between Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris (who aren't
real people, but might as well be). Through photographs of the
couple's personal effects--the usual auction items (jewelry, fine
art, and rare furniture) and the seemingly worthless (pajamas,
Post-it notes, worn paperbacks)--the story of a failed love affair
vividly (and cleverly) emerges. From first meeting to final
separation, the progress and rituals of intimacy are revealed
through the couple's accumulated relics and memorabilia. And a love
story, in all its tenderness and struggle, emerges from the
evidence that has been left behind, laid out for us to appraise and
appreciate.
In an earlier work, "Was She Pretty?," Shapton, a talented
artist and illustrator, subtly explored the seemingly simple yet
powerfully complicated nature of sexual jealousy. In "Important
Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore
Doolan and Harold Morris"--a very different yet equally original
book--she invites us to contemplate what is truly valuable, and to
consider the art we make of our private lives.
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