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Marx Angels

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Pavel Büchler (República Tcheca, 1952)
Marx Angels
London: Book Works, 1997
14 x 10 cm
48 p.
Offset
1000 ex.
ISBN: 1870699327

This book formed part of a comissioned work for Library Relocations at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, 1997.

Drawing on research within the library, Marx Angels contains extracts from correspondence between Marx and Engels, who both spent time studying in Chetham’s Library.

Presented as a journal and illustrated with details of hand gestures culled from the media, Marx and Engels’ correspondence is paraphrased by extracts from Pavel Büchler’s imaginary diary. These diary extracts, reading like a list of Fluxus actions, reveal the warmth, humour and the mundanity of domestic arrangements within the correspondence of Marx and Engels.

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Rex reason

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Simon Patterson  (Inglaterra, 1967)
Rex Reason
London: Book Works, 1994
Offset printing
Full colour
10,5 x 13 cm
Edition of 2,000 copies
ISBN: 978 1 870699 13 6

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Rex Reason presents the Periodic Table of the Elements in book form. A colour-coding system is set up (black for solids, blue for liquids and yellow synthetics) but where we might expect to find hydrogen, helium or lithium we find Yul Brynner, William Hogarth and Maria Callas. The selected names relate to the chemical symbol for each element: both letters must appear in the chosen name for example, Bertolt Brecht (Br, Bromine).

A loose logic prevails in the choice of names, for example names in red, gases, are from Greek myth or history and the yellow synthetic elements are given their proper names. However, Patterson disrupts this system with red herrings, mysteries and riddles that test the reader’s knowledge and that expose the inherent human desire to establish order and meaning.

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Jonathan Monk (Inglaterra, 1969)
Cover Version
London: Book Works, 2004
Offset
Full colour; 138 p.
Soft cover, wire stitched
Design: Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié
19,7 x 15,8 cm
1.000 ex. com três capas diferentes (preço em dólar, euro ou libras esterlinas)
ISBN: 978 1 870699 74 7

‘For me, it’s like buying gifts for myself and some are really fantastic: occasionally I am really amazed by what I have bought when it arrives, as often the catalogue description does not do justice to the physical object itself.’ Jonathan Monk

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Jonathan Monk is an artist who loves other artists. His work draws on oblique autobiographical references and personal anecdotes together with art historical strategies and legacies to express a critical camaraderie in his subject. Cover Version features a selection of seminal publications from Monk’s extensive collection of artists’ books. Sol Le Witt, Lawrence Weiner and Ed Ruscha are represented side by side to form a cogent series, which presents a contemporary investigation into materiality and the problems of signification in conceptual art publishing. An integral section of Cover Version is a transcribed telephone conversation between Jonathan Monk and Seth Siegelaub, which unfolds and discusses their mutual obsession with book making and collecting whilst speculating on the nature of the object. This ‘collectable’ book also has three different covers designed with its monetary value in euros, dollars and pounds, a direct reference to Lawrence Weiner’s 1968 publication Statements.

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