Chance: The Catalogue
Published by Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA, 1996
- First Edition
- Used
Seller: Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Passages Bookshop
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Condition: Used
US$ 115.00
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(48) pp., 7 x 10 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Designed by Mark Stritzel. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout. Corners bumped, and a small scar from label removal on back cover, otherwise very good. The catalogue of a three-day event in the Mojave desert, conceived and produced by Chris Kraus and described by her as a "philosophical rave and summit meeting between artists and philosophers, chaosophists and croupiers, mathematicians and musicians," presented by ArtCenter College of Design and the French Cultural Service, which took place at a resort casino forty miles south of Las Vegas. Participants included Jean Baudrillard, Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, Nick Kallos, Marcella Greening, Sheppard Powell, Homer Erotic, Towel, Sylvere Lotringer, Oguri with Roxanne Steinberg and Renzoku, Rosanne Allucquere Stone, Shirley Tse, Douglas Hepworth, Diane di Prima, Ann Rower, The Chance Band, Ohm-A-Revelator, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Calvin Meyers, Mike Kelley, and others.A collage of images and short texts, the catalogue contains essays, poems, excerpts from stories, and interviews by the editors and Liz Larner, Ann Rower, Diane di Prima, Paul D. Miller, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Brian Moss, Shirley Tse, Dave Bailey, Lisa Kirk, Fred Dewey, Ellen Maybe, Rosanne Allucquere Stone, Jean Baudrillard, and Nick Kallos.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Chance: The Catalogue
- Author
- Gavlak, Sarah, Chris Kraus, Susan Martin, & Pam Strugar (editors)
- Publisher
- Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA
- Publication year
- 1996
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- First printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Art & Artists
Passages Bookshop
Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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Passages Bookshop stocks fine, rare, and unusual books and graphic art, with a concentration on modern and contemporary literature and art (particularly poetry and the avant-garde), artist's books, fine printing, and the book arts. The successor to New York City's Bridge Bookshop (late 1980s), Passages opened in Albuquerque in 1994 and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1997. We are open most days by appointment or chance in our new location in NW Portland. To see more images of most of our books, please visit our website. Proprietor: David Abel…
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