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

Venus Over Manhattan, 2012

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.

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

Arnaud Desjardin
The Book on Books on Artists Books

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

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