{"product_id":"golden-pavilion-notebook-barbara-balfour","title":"Golden Pavilion Notebook - Barbara Balfour","description":"\u003cp\u003eOstensibly about Kinkaku-ji, the golden pavilion located in Kyoto, Japan, this artist’s book is at the same time a reflection on impermanence: nomenclatural, architectural, familial. Balfour’s connection to this pavilion is inextricably linked to her late father’s documentation of it in slides, dating from the late 1950s and early 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a print-based artist fascinated by the dynamic between the original and the copy, with the copy not being considered inferior, Balfour became intrigued by Kinkaku-ji’s iconic image repeated endlessly in travel guides, the site’s webcam, postcards, and tourists’ digital images – almost always inherently doubled by the temple’s reflection in the nearby lake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe key material substance referenced in this book is gold, in its many iterations: on Japanese folding screens, in dentistry, and as gold flakes on soft ice cream. Despite its featherweight delicacy, gold is resilient in that it doesn’t oxidize, rust, or tarnish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book in the form of a notebook, where you will encounter such things as:\u003cbr\u003evarious names changes\u003cbr\u003ea conflagration\u003cbr\u003ethe start of the story\u003cbr\u003ea few false starts\u003cbr\u003emore of the same\u003cbr\u003eduplicates, replacements, facsimiles\u003cbr\u003eslides, carousels, postcards\u003cbr\u003eclichés\u003cbr\u003edisappointment\u003cbr\u003eJapanese breakfast\u003cbr\u003ea family chestnut\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarbara Balfour, 2025 \u003cbr\u003eSoftcover, 72pp \u003cbr\u003e150 x 105mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57232189456761,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks_0a894d56-fe70-4e98-bc18-04446ffaa7b5.jpg?v=1778244817","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.live\/products\/golden-pavilion-notebook-barbara-balfour","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}