Cellophane Bricks

A Life in Visual Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

253 kr

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Many know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novels—Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, among many others—play with genres and storytelling modes like a DJ mixing music. But Lethem grew up in his father’s studio, went to art school, and, in his own words, “made hundreds if not thousands of drawings, collages, paintings, hand-drawn comics, and even two animated shorts” before diverting, at nineteen, to prose. The surreal and form-defying panoply of his stories, essays, and novels celebrates—and mourns—this forsaken world of the visual and plastic arts. That leap, between the cellophane ephemerality of language and the brick-like tangibility of visual art, which operates as a sublimated wellspring for Lethem’s writing, is the subject of this book.Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture mortars together Lethem’s fictions in response to (and in exchange for) artworks by his friends with dozens of original essays ranging from comics and graffiti art, to his collaborations with artists and interventions into visual culture, to his portrait of the museum that was and continues to be his home, untethered from geography. Unique in Lethem’s kaleidoscopic oeuvre, Cellophane Bricks comprises a kind of stealth memoir of his parallel life in visual culture. Gorgeously designed, with stunning, full-color images from the author’s own collection and elsewhere, Cellophane Bricks is a ravishing assemblage that makes the perfect gift for story lovers of all kinds.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-09-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 36 mm
Vikt:738 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:ZE Books
ISBN:9798988670001

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Jonathan Lethem is the author of Brooklyn Crime Novel and twelve other novels. His stories and essays have been collected in five volumes, and his work translated into over thirty languages. He has been recipient of The National Book Critics Circle Award, The World Fantasy Award, The Berlin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches creative writing and contemporary fiction at Pomona College.

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Combining mind-bending intellectual meditations with a visceral delight in his subject, Lethem’s electric prose animates the proceedings. The result is a transfixing look at what it means to make, and admire, art.

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Table of Contents008 Introduction: CELLOPHANE, BRICKS, FOG & CINDER / A Life in Material CultureFictions of Art024 INTRODUCTION028 THE SUBJECTIVE FOG / for Julian Hoeber038 THE COLLECTOR / Fred Tomaselli048 AN ALMOST PERFECT DAY / Letter to Bonn054 RECIPROCITY OF ARTIFACTS: A DOMESTIC / Rachel Harrison058 TRAVELER HOME / Martin & Munoz068 THE BILLBOARD MEN / Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel080 IMMACULATE KILLS / Alexis Rockman084 STATIONS OF THE RELOCATED WITNESS / Gregory Crewdson102 MISSING PERSONS: AN HOMAGE TO PERRY HOBERMAN108 X, CURATOR / David Maisel120 CELLOPHANE BRICKS: A FUGUE FOR MEMORY LOST / Nan Goldin130 JIM SHAW KILLSGraffiti and Comics142 INTRODUCTION148 ONE-TRACK MIND: ON PHIL COPPOLA150 COVER THE CITY: GRAFFITI GRAPHOMANIA, OR, THE FLÂNEUR WITH TOURETTE’S / KEO, PRAY & Katie Merz162 CRUNCH ROLLS / Introduction to Mascots & Mugs: The Characters and Cartoons of Subway Graffiti166 THE ORGY OF THE REAL / Todd James172 A FURTIVE EXCHANGE / Chester Brown178 BLACK KRYPTONITE / A Script for Pettibon188 20TH CENTURY VOMIT / Collaboration with Julia JacquetteBook196 INTRODUCTION206 OBJECTIFIED BOOKS / Alexander Munn, Cynthia Winings, Charles Child & Me222 THE RICHARD PRINCE STORIES230 FIVE RUN-INS WITH ROSALYN DREXLER246 GOD IN A SPRAY CAN / Robert Jimenez’s Ubik252 SYLVIE SELIG256 NOW IT CAN BE TOLD / For Tom ClarkEcstasy262 INTRODUCTION266 ANDY MIRRORBALL (WARHOL)272 TERMITE FOOTPRINTS / On Manny Farber’s Art Writing286 A VOYAGE AROUND MIRELLA BENTIVOGLIO’S STONE TYPEWRITER290 OVERHEARD AT THE INSTALLATION / For Charles Sheeler’s “Suspended Power”299 THE SLEEVE SHOULD BE ILLEGAL For Hans Holbein theYounger’s “SirThomas More”302 SEARCHING FOR UBLAND A Voyage to the Edges of My Disney HyperartifactAt Home326 INTRODUCTION330 VINYL CIRCLE, ON MY WALL / Chad Gerth334 FACES OF JEANNE AND TOM / On Living With a Forgotten Painter’s Masterpiece / Jeanne Redpath344 THE SKIN OF REALITY / A Studio Visit with Kari Gatzke350 JOYCEAN SLICES / Emily Joyce354 ALL MY CHALDRONS366 THE EASEL OF THE UNSEEN / Mark Johnson374 HAZEL378 COFFEEHEAD AND THE DECAYERS / Life in a Charles Long Sculpture Zone392 MY FATHER HAS STARTED A PAINTING402 ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF MY FATHER408 CREDITS

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