Max Guy: But Tell Me, Is It a Civilized Country? - Couverture rigide

Guy, Max

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0941548899 ISBN 13 : 9780941548892

Editeur : Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2025

Synopsis

A catalog of an exhibition by contemporary artist Max Guy that uses The Wizard of Oz as a way to ask questions about society and culture.

This book accompanies Max Guy's exhibition "But tell Me, is it a civilized country?," an installation of new works centered on The Wizard of Oz. The title is drawn from a conversation between the Witch of the North and Dorothy in which the Witch defines "civilized" as not including magic.

Anchored in Chicago--where L. Frank Baum's novel was written and first published, and home to enduring monuments to Oz fandom--the exhibition and book bridge the parallel universes of the Emerald City and its birthplace, drawing out the traces each carries of the other. A number of latent currents course underneath the work: critical perspectives on modernist urbanism, the peculiar products of fan culture, and the transformative power of storytelling and other acts of world-making.

This catalog features essays by artist and writer Brit Barton and the exhibition's curator, Michael Harrison, as well as a transcription of a conversation between Guy and artist and writer Irena Haiduk. The book will also include a new artist project made specifically for the book in the form of an annotated bibliography created by Guy of writings and images that relate to and inspire his practice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Max Guy is a Chicago-based artist who works with paper, video, performance, assemblage, and installation

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0941548899
• ISBN 13: 9780941548892
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible