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GENERATION. 25 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN SCOTLAND. 2014. TWO VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE.

paul robertson — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 13:47:44 +0000

Glasgow: Glasgow Museums, 2014 Two volumes. Uniformly 22 x 16cm, 220 and 168pp respectively in printed cardboard slipcase. Exhibition catalogue and guide to Glasgow Museum's somewhat flawed (and West Coast centric) survey of 25 years of Scottish contemporary art. First volume is entitled Guide and has individual sections on artists such as Charles Avery, Clare Barclay, Beagles & Ramsay, Christine Borland, Martin Boyce, Steven Campbell, Graham Fagen, Katy Dove, Douglas Gordon, Kenny Hunter, Callum Innes, Jim Lambie, Tessa Lynch, Jonathan Monk, Toby Paterson, David Shrigley, Alison Watt, Richard Wright amongst others. Each artist has a text and one colour imag33e of a work. The second volume is entitled Reader and contains essays and original texts by the artists. Both VG+ in like slipecase.

SIGNIFICANT NOTES. 2002.

paul robertson — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:24:32 +0000

Arhus: Arhus Kunstforening af 1847, 2002 21 x 19cm, 48pp plus pictorial card covers with French folds. Exhibition catalogue with essays by Stefanie Jenssen, Claus Emmeche and Ulla Angkjaer Jorgensen in English and Danish and colour images of botanical drawings and sculptural (mobile) installations throughout. VG+.

PROGRESSIVE DISORDER. 2002.

paul robertson — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:49:10 +0000

Dundee/Manchester: Dundee Contemporary Arts/Bookworks, 2001 25 x 22cm, 72pp plus pictorial boards. Exhibition catalogue and monograph for a Dundee solo show - colour images of sculptures and various short essays. VG+.

BULLET PROOF BREATH. 2002.

paul robertson — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:38:28 +0000

York: Art Gallery of York University, 2002 22.5 x 15cm, 96pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue and monograph for a show in the university - colour images of sculptures and various short essays. VG+.

CHRISTINE BORLAND. 1996.

paul robertson — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 10:39:14 +0000

Berlin: Kunst-Werke, 1996

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a solo show. VG+.

THIS EXHIBITION IS A PROPOSAL FOR TWO BODY DONORS. 2015.

paul robertson — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:41:44 +0000

Glasgow: CCA, 2015 37.5 x 29cm, 16pp (self cover) newsprint tabloid paper. Artist's book issued during the Circles of Focus exhibition which reproduced redacted correspondence between the artists and an anonymous person who has agreed to donate their body for art after their death (and for the use of medial science also). Images of the various letters and also the 1832 Anatomy Act. VG+.

THE TURNER PRIZE 1997. 1997. THE ALL WOMAN SHORTLIST.

paul robertson — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:41:37 +0000

London: Tate Gallery/Turner Prize, 1997

30 x 21cm, 16pp self cover. Exhibition guide/catalogue for the annual UK arts prize - which was won by Gillian Wearing. Each artist has 2pp of essays and photographs of the works submitted and there are 24 small colour images of the various works. this was the first and only time there had been an all woman shortlist for the prize - with Christine Borland, Angela Bulloch and Cornelia Parker joining Wearing as competitors. Very good although slightly former price label stain on front cover which could be removed with care.

OFF THE WALL. 2007.

paul robertson — Mon, 04 May 2020 21:39:37 +0000

Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2007 21 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcment leaflet for a group show of floor and ceiling based works. Included were Christine Borland, Nathan Coley, Martin Creed, Mona Hatoum, Jim Lambie, Sol LeWitt, David Mach, Yinka Shonibare and David Shrigley. VG+.