Most arrangements are little noticed, yet some stop you in your tracks. Originally published in 2003, Leonard Korens highly sought-after Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement utilises the language of rhetoric to portray visual arrangement as a communicational act: its own language-like form of aesthetic expression.
Korens insightful meditation is further distilled into eight rhetorical principles presented alognside 23 idiosyncratic paintings by artist Nathalie Du Pasquier which illustrate the volume. With a welcoming tone, Arranging Things offers an accessible strategy which can be used to analyse any arrangement.
