August 25, 2009
Catalogue of an Exhibition
Catalogue of an Exhibition is a new collaborative (un)book by Derrick Mosley and Dave Gray. The publication announcement was as follows:
Cowbird Books is pleased to announce the publication of Catalogue of an Exhibition: Selected Works of the American Painter G, by Mark Osrick Graveley, D.E.D.
A photographic facsimile of the incomplete catalog from the seminal 1983 Woodstock Galleries retrospective of the painter G. As the original catalogs are quite rare, this edition offers to reproduce the crucial text in American art criticism for decades of graduate students at Columbia, who, by tradition, read it after having ingested mushroom caps.
M.O. Graveley is a noted art historian, lexicographer and philosopher. She grew up in Brooklyn sometime in the nineteen-fifties and graduated from Yale in the class of 1963. She is blind, and specializes in delivering customized epistemological experiences tailored to the discerning collector. Beyond that, little is known. Preview and buy it here.
The unbook was created by crafting a fictional story around a fictional exhibition around Dave Gray’s art. The authors encourage people to riff off the idea and contribute/edit/rehash/remix the content and the next edition of the unbook will include the best material from the pool of ideas under the same pseudonym. Think layer tennis for literature.
If you are wondering what the heck an unbook is, this is a good place to start.
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