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Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film (flipbook) David Horvitz In 2007 a video of a few second black and white film was uploaded to Youtube with the title, "Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film." The black and white film depicted a figure biking into the ocean. The posting claimed that the film was found in Ader's locker at UC Irvine after his disappearance at sea in 1975, and that the film was assumed unusable because it abruptly runs out just as the figure enters the water. Responding to a complaint by a thirdparty, Youtube deleted the posted video, saying that "this material is infringing." Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film is a flipbook comprised of stills from the film. While supplies last, the book will also come with a 2 sided newsprint Horvitz produced for his exhibition at the 2nd Cannons gallery space. |
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Cannons Publications 019 2009, 1st printing, edition of 500. 4.25 x 6.5" 152 pages $10.00 |
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Brendan Fowler In spring 2008, Barr (Brendan Fowler) cancelled his planned summer tour and began making objects. Since then, Fowler has shown works with Rivington Arms, 2nd Cannons and Mesler&Hug. For this book, Fowler used a camera and photocopier to assemble a catalog (a self-retrospetive?) of this year of object-making. |
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Cannons Publications 018 2009, 1st printing, edition of 500. 12x9.5" 84 pages $26.00 |
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Darren Bader, Brian Kennon, Chris Lipomi A 3 person artists' book made on the occasion of Kennon and Lipomi's 2 person show at Mesler&Hug in New York. She Has a Hot Ass combines a collection of the magazine spreads that generated Kennon's photographs and prints for the exhibtion, digitally produced collages that run parallel to Lipomi's paintings and additional texts and images by Bader. Images from the exhibition here. A signed/numbered edition of 10 also available for $150. Contact orders@2ndcannons.com for more info. |
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Cannons Publications 017
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William E. Jones The third
release in a series of books by William E. Jones, Heliogabalus
pays tribute to the most decadent Roman Emperor. Who was this creature
who called himself Elagabalus, after El Gabal, god of the sun? What to
make of his addiction to luxury, his overbearing mother, his controversial
genitals? Enlightening texts can be found in the latest 2nd Cannons publication.
The book features accounts of Heliogabalus by Edward Gibbon, Herodian,
Cassius Dio, and the spurious Aelius Lampridius. It also contains a contemporary
text, “This Necrophilic Strategy Entails Some Risk,” a collaboration
by Bruce Hainley and William E. Jones, previously published only in expurgated
form, and now presented with all lurid details intact. |
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Flora Wiegmann and Drew Heitzler Champion Fine
Art was initiated in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in September of 2003 by Drew
Heitzler and Flora Wiegmann as an artists’ space that would host
twenty-one exhibitions over a period of two years. The space operated
in a third floor loft at 281 N. 7th St. until August of 2004, when Drew
and Flora moved to California. Champion re-opened a month later in the
Culver City section of Los Angeles on the ground floor of a two-story
apartment at 6073 Comey Avenue, where it operated until the completion
of the project in November, 2005. Participating artists include: Drew Heitzler, Mai-thu Perret, Steven Parrino, Bettina Funcke, Seth Price, Kelly Walker, Monique Van Genederen, Emily Sunblad, Josh Smith, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Roe Ethridge, Shana Lutker, Jonas Wood, Matt Johnson, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder, Katherine Bernhardt, Brian Bress, Fia Backström, John Tremblay, James Welling, Eric Wesley, Steven Shore, Alice Konitz, Skylard Haskard, Carter Mull. With texts by: Charles Baudelaire, Steven Parrino, Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Carissa Rodriguez, Jonal Nobel, Petter Kallioinen, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Sophie Carr, John Tremblay, Walead Beshty, Anna Sew Hoy, Michael Zahn. |
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Selections from the Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton William E. Jones Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton telescopes 350 years, the period from the 1620s to the 1970s. It is what artist William E. Jones imagined Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy would have looked like had it appeared in the pages of Drummer magazine. In preparing the book, Jones condensed Burton’s vast 450,000-word masterpiece of 17th Century English literature to a small fraction of its length, and paired the excerpts with vintage images of leather men at work and play. Robert Burton was fascinated by the variations of human sexuality, albeit more as an observer than as a participant. He wrote about sex in covert Latin passages that are newly translated in Jones’s book. Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton is a delightfully perverse condensation of Burton’s speculations on the sexual proclivities that subsequent generations of gay men put into exuberant practice. www.williamejones.com |
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Jan Tumlir and Brian Kennon A collaboration between Jan Tumlir and Brian Kennon and a "prelude catalog" to Tumlir's exhibition of the same name, Desertshore begins with the image from the cover of the Nico album (also a film still from La Circatrice Interieure by Philippe Garrel) to then find a path on/through works from the late 60's - 70's that commonly trip out from the city center and travel to the pasts and futures of desert and space. Moving through Robert Smithson, Ed Ruscha, Bas Jan Ader, Stanley Kubrick's 2001, Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo,and Pink Floyd, the book ends with a re-telling of the final sequence of Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point. |
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Doug and Mike's Adult Entertainment (DVD) Doug Skinner and Michael Smith .A DVD collection of videos and live performance footage, Doug and Mike’s “Adult Entertainment” began as a childish version of an adult nightclub act -- with piano, cocktails, bawdy jokes, and hand puppets -- and gradually became more narrative, as the puppet characters took on more life. The cast eventually included: Doug and Mike, increasingly pathetic versions of their creators; Shane and Cory, two women from their acting class; Kevin and Jason, their potty-mouthed nephews; Adrian, their acting teacher/therapist; Mr. Woodie, Doug and Mike’s mascot; and, of course, two talking toilets, both named Mr. Toilet, who talk shop in a public men’s room. From 1990 to 1998 Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment was presented at a variety of venues and festivals in New York City including Dixon Place, Caroline’s Comedy Club, Jay Gorney Modern Art, Holly Solomon Gallery, The Drawing Center, PS1, The Public Theater, The Henson International Puppet Festival, The Soho Arts Festival, Franklin Furnace, Artists Space, The Knitting Factory, PS 122 and in Los Angeles at The Museum of Contemporary Art and in Mike Kelley’s backyard. |
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Cannons Publications 012
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Darren Bader pulturebook - first encountered in the 12th Century Norse saga Pillu in reference to an unhappy fisherman who sells his leg to his dog. 200 years later the word is found in verb form --roughly translated as 'to slimp' or 'to bet'-- in an aprocryphal version of Wycliffe's Bible (Jeremiah 29:7) brought to the court of the Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy by his hermaphrodite lover, Ixel Esten. In an anonymous 1576 etching, one of Francis Drake's ships has Pulturebuck emblazoned on three of its sails. Several appearances of various spellings of the word occur in tracts associated with political upheavals from Cromwell to Napoleon III. The Duke of Cumberland named his summer home Pulturbooke in 1783 (only to rename it Alexandriatown three years later). It was notably used of late in space-hiccup form by Sally Ride in 1983. Pulturebook is also the name of a Grammy Award nominated Milwaukee jazz collective and a small pharmaceutical company based in Rheims, France. |
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William E. Jones Tearoom
is a companion piece to Jones’s video of the same name. A work of
appropriation, the video Tearoom is a police surveillance film
– presented virtually unaltered – of men having sex in a public
rest room in Mansfield, Ohio during a three week period in the summer
of 1962. This film, used as evidence in court, led to the conviction of
over 30 men on charges of sodomy, which at that time carried a minimum
sentence of one year in the state penitentiary. |
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The Ice Skating Tree Opera - Director's Cuts (as a book and DVD) Julie Lequin Julie worked (on and off/ but mostly on) on this project for about 2 years. This is Julie’s first publication ever (probably why it took so long) and it details Julie's Ice Skating Tree Opera performance from 2005 and all of its surrounding stories. The book is very nice looking (about 23cm. x 18 cm.); it has a lot of colored pages (err… Brian complained), and some funny words. The DVD takes a while to watch so you’re really getting a lot for your money. There are some singing, gossips, and green screen videos. If you feel like investing, you can treat yourself with a copy of the “Limited Double Standard” version, that is with the deluxe book cover (hand knitted by Julie). Watch the trailer to the book |
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Meg Cranston Written between 1996 and 2000 Good Morning, Evil Genius is a fictional (?) story chronicling the adventures...or misadventures...of the unnamed Evil Genius. The work was also the basis of a performance by the same name performed at Galerie Michael Kapinos, Berlin and an exhibiton at Printed Matter in New York. The texts are accompanied with a series of drawings by Meg that are derived from a children's coloring book.
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Ami Tallman A series of drawings of interiors, occasionally interrupted by men in uniform, that tells the story of a young aristocratic heir to an English country estate who abandons his manor when coerced by a fetching young member of the Red Cross into taking up trench warfare. The book follows his recollections from the field regarding his old family pile. Hardcover deluxe version coming soon! |
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Leisure: An Art Journal: Issue #0 Leisure: An Art Journal delays it's first issue by instead publishing Issue #0, a questionnaire. In issue #0 artists, writers, and gallerists were questioned regarding the nature of radness and artistic production. Participants are: Evan Holloway, Bruce Hainley, Lawrence Weiner, Michael Smith, Bruce LaBruce, Darren Bader, Mayo Thompson, AA Bronson, Jess Holzworth, Corrina Peipon, Brian Bress, Julie Lequin, Meg Cranston, Natascha Sofia Snellman, Monique Prieto, TRUDI, Drew Heitzler, Elk, Christopher Russell, Tom Allen, Catherine Taft, Betty Tompkins, Kathe Burkhart, Michael Ned Holte, Paddy Johnson, Ami Tallman, Daniel Hug, and lastly, Jason Meadows (whose answers we found insulting). Limited edition print available. |
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Brian Kennon The first in an ongoing series of untitled books, Untitled #1, 2006 starts by taking a close look at Mike Kelley's "Silver Ball" from 1994 and ends deep in the forest of Albert Oehlen's, "Baume," 2004. Deluxe edition includes archival inkjet print. |
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Bruce Hainley "The foul mouth--c'est moi!--mouths off in lovingly excremental language as it negotiates figures of popular (Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson, among others) and not so popular (Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson, among others) culture. Cruising and confusing the readymade and the created, the author with these texts metabolizes the dissolve of the first person in the glare of celebrity. But I could just be drunk." --Paul Lynde |
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Brian Kennon An extension of the much larger (and soon to be published) three volume Hello Victims book, Hello Victims: Ad Reinhardt presents Reinhardt's black paintings within the context of the equally apocalyptic lenses of Motorhead, Nuclear War and Zombie films. Signed/numbered edition of 10 available in our Editions section 2nd Cannons Publications 003 |
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| 2005, 1st printing, edition of 100, 7.25 x 7.25" 43 pages. 32 illus. $24.00 | Out of Print | |
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Natascha Snellman A collection of 14 casual interviews with fellow artists about their practices, habits, interests, and influences along with reproductions of recent work. Interviewees include: Ami Tallman, Sue De Beer, Sterling Ruby, Ashley Macomber, Gus Van Sant, Brian Kennon, Nina Bovasso, and Kevin Christy. 2nd Cannons Publications 002 |
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| 2006, 1st printing, edition of 500. 8 x 5.5" 122 pages, 30 illus. $26.00 | ||
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I Heart Darkness: deluxe edition Natascha Snellman The deluxe edition of I Heart Darkness comes with an additional book entitled Little Darlings/Pretty Baby. This second volume is an artist's book filled with Natascha's collages and drawings completed during the period of the I Heart Darkness interviews. The two books are enclosed in a wrap-around cover that ties together with a ribbon in the back. Limited to 50 signed and numbered copies |
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Q: Whatever Happened to World War Three? (button set) Brian Kennon Three 1" buttons and a single 1.25" button that together wonder whatever became of that great nuclear apocalypse that should have happened by now.
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Good BoyBrian Kennon A collection of dissected and altered Christopher Wool paintings, remade into Misfits song titles, Minutemen song lyrics and other paintings Christopher Wool never made, but we think he should have. self published |
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| 2005, 1st printing, edition of 25. 6 x 4.5", 29 pages. | Out of Print | |
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The Cindy Shermans I'd Like to FuckBrian Kennon Sherman’s photographs of phantom female identities are appropriated and reorganized into 7 chapters based on the sex drive of the book’s author. Removed from their more traditional manner of organization (Untitled Film Stills, Centerfolds, History Portraits, etc.) The Cindy Shermans I’d Like to Fuck does little to shed light onto the development of Sherman’s body of work, instead the author uses Sherman’s myriad of self-portraits to create his own form of self-portrait (or at least a portrait of his libido.)self published |
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| 2003,1st printing, edition of 250. 9 x 8", 82 pages. $100.00 | Last copies | |
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Black and White Reproductions of the Abstract Expressionists Brian Kennon The entire body work of by the Abstract Expressionists is reduced down into a canon of 13 paintings by 13 artists, then reduced even further by being reproduced in black and white (with the paintings true colors indexed neatly around the edges). self published |
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| 2002, 8.5 x 7.5" 27 pages. $22.00 | ||
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