Appendices Illustrations & Notes [Rejected] - Volume VII, No. 64

Terence Gower & Mónica de la Torre (Compiled by); Susan Martin (Managing Editor); Sherri Schottlaender (Copy Editing)

ISBN 10: 1889195359 / ISBN 13: 9781889195353

Published by Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA, 1999

About this Item

54 + vi pp. Vol. VII, No. 64 issue only! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Publisher's remainder mark (black dot) on top edge.

Seller Inventory # 5iiiBe0016

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Appendices Illustrations & Notes [Rejected] - Volume VII, No. 64
• Publisher: Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1889195359
• ISBN 13: 9781889195353
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Illustrator: Tony Payne (Design)
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Studies, Literary Theory & Lit. Criticsm
  • Theatre, American Theatre & Drama
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

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Synopsis

This surreal and funny artist's book is a collaboration between conceptual artist Terence Gower and writer Monica de la Torre, who have created an anthology of meaningless book marketing blurbs, reviews of dubious exhibitions, evil-spirited notes by editors rejecting manuscripts, and obsessional letters addressed to a psychiatrist. Presented as an appendix of ancillary material to a fictitious book, the texts take referentiality to a level of Borgesian absurdity. The humor is dry and understated, and it is only after rereading these pieces that the uncanny thread uniting these seemingly found and disjointed fragments becomes apparent. For anyone whose day-to-day encounters with discourse include texts riddled with jargon and psychoanalytical babble. Appendices, Illustrations & Notes offers a homeopathic antidote of sweet revenge on the slayers of language.