Monday, November 26, 2012

THE TOTALITY FOR KIDS


Raoul Vaneigem
The Totality for Kids
Translated from the French by Christopher Gray and Philippe Vissac
Published by Christopher Gray, 1966.
The best book cover design of all time.  
For an unauthorized bootleg, essentially.
Art with a capital A.

WHERE IS JACK GOLDSTEIN?


Where Is Jack Goldstein?
Exhibition catalog, edition 2000
An inspired and gorgeously produced little book featuring a great selection of Goldstein's art as well as an excellent essay by Ashley Bickerton, who as a student idolized Goldstein and worked as his studio assistant in the early to mid-'80s. A revealing--and quite moving--first hand reminiscence, rife with new information. I wish such texts by Those Who Were There were much more commonplace.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

CLOSE YOUR EYES, PLAGUE BOY

Charles Burns
Close Your Eyes
Le Dernier Cri, 2001
Edition of 1000
A beautiful distillation of Burns' aesthetic via his interpretations/
copies/appropriations of disparate artworks, mostly comic.

Also from 2001, a self-published two-volume
zine entitled Plague Boy: 80 Self Portraits by Charles Burns.


ON ARTISTS BOOKS



The Everyday Press, 2011
We like lists. Facts. The Information.
Indispensable.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

BIRDTALK

Richard Prince's posts (or birds) are the best online reads out there.

And his White Paintings are my favorite paintings by anyone, ever.





PEARLS ARE A NUISANCE


Everyone knows that Art Chantry is the Man, right? Right?

Pearls Are A Nuisance: The Work of Art Chantry
The Firecracker Press, 2005
Letterpress brochure incorporating cut up Chantry posters
Each copy unique
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title at Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO

"There are thirty-two ways to write a story, 
and I've used every one, but there is only one plot--
things are not as they seem." 
--Jim Thompson