Ocean Wave by Jonathan Monk (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Jonathan Monk ; Ocean Wave but didn't Bas Jan Ader drink Heineken?; Published by Revolver, 2005; Condition: Good (G), shelf wear.

Pamphlet. This is not a book. The original announcement pamphlet/flyer for an exhibition of work by Jonathan Monk titled "Ocean Wave" and held at Kunstlerhaus Bremen, December 11, 2004 - February 20, 2005. Thin paper, printed both sides, folded, as issued; 4 x 4 inches, folds out to 8 x 12 inches. Condition: Fine. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day. …

Softcover. Condition: Condition: very good. First edition. Artist's book with alternating printed and blank pages, with an essay in English and German by Susanne Pfeffer. The back cover is systematically torn off. The idea of shooting a Beck's beer clip in Bremen seems as absurd an enterprise as that of crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a one-man sailing boat. In 1975 the Dutch artist Jan Bas Ader actually set out from the eastern coast of the USA in the direction of England in his small sailing boat, Ocean Wave; he has not been seen since. For his new work, artist Jonathan Monk sent out a Thai and a German as location scouts in search of a location in Bremer and Bremerhaven for a Beck's beer clip. On the basis of the photo-graphs they took, Monk then made five 16mm films. Instead of the exotic lands and the boundless seas with which Beck's ads usuall draw viewers' attention, Monk chose everyday places in Bremen, thus contrasting the city with the wide ocean and the emphatically heroic self-understanding of the artist Bas Jan Ader with beer drinking as a domesticated form of intoxication. Monk makes a working principle out of the myth of the disappearing artist. [224] pp; 18,5 x 13 cm.…

Announcement card. Condition: very good. first edition. Announcement card/leaflet, 21x29,5 cm (folded), 10x10,5 cm (opened). Announcement card for the exhibition "Ocean Wave" at the Kunstlerhaus Bremen (11/12/2004-20/2-2005) the Jonathan Monks's films were presented. The announcement front shows an English vocabulary page where the definition of the word "crowís nest" (a nautical term) was sistematically highlighted in blue marker. An artist's book by Jonathan Monk was published in this occasion.…