L"ESPIRIT D'ESCALIER:THOMAS DEMAND: D.A. P

Did you hear the one about the visitor to The Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge) in January 2006, who stumbled on his shoelaces and crashed into the three eighteenth-century vases, smashing them to pieces? I got that bit while checking out the PR info on this Demand tome. Demand turned that event into a conceptual piece for an exhibit shown at the Irish Museum Of Modern Art. The title of the book literally translates to mean "staircase wit" ...which is like when you think of the killing bitch comeback AFTER you've left the party. We love when wordplay becomes visual wit!