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Proof of Evidence
Hiroko Kikuchi, Artist
Materials: business card
Size: 2 x 3.5 inches
The Arts Administrator’s Sketchbook will be published by The Green Lantern Press in conjunction with the Arts Administration Symposium: Creating Context, May 1-19th, 2007 at ThreeWalls, Chicago, IL.
The sketchbook illustrates what ideas look like when they are forming. We are publishing the book with the hope that arts administrators of all kinds can pick it up, flip through its pages and become inspired. This communal collection of "sketches" will pass ideas for exhibitions, organizational structures, or academic projects between colleagues and strangers in an effort to connect people and expand thinking on arts administration.
Please pick one up at ThreeWalls, Green Lantern, or order them online. We have approximately 500 limited edition books with original prints. 1,000 additional no-frills copies will also be available.
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published by Green Lantern Press, 2006. Edition of 500, each cover is silk-screened by Mat Daly (also, edition of 500) introduction by Gerry Kapolka, layout and book design by Jason Bacasa.
There comes a time in the lives of people of a certain disposition, usually from the ages of sixteen to twenty-three, when following any path other than that of an artist seems unthinkable. They read books with titles like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and see something of themselves in their pages. They begin painting or writing poetry. They throw themselves into such a life with the passion and fury that seems reserved for such an age and then, usually, they stop. Sometimes they decide to switch to a major with more earning potential. Sometimes they graduate and lose track of their friends. Sometimes they find jobs in galleries or publishing houses that leave too little time for their own endeavors. Sometimes they’re not good enough. Sometimes they grow up.
And yet books wherein the protagonist overcomes all obstacles to become an artist, books where, in the final pages, one learns that the young man or woman picks up a pen and begins to write that very book, books with titles like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, continue to be written.
God Bless the Squirrel Cage is not one of those books.
NOW AVAILABLE!
pretend the God Bless the Squirrel Cage is a movie and watch the trailer (~11mb), By billy Morocco. This may take some time to upload. Perhaps you'd like some tea while you wait? or a hot toddy for that chill?
Press . . . . . . . Time Out Chicago, New City
buy this book for $20.00 (incl. ship&handling)
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published by Green Lantern Press, 2006. Edition of 500, each cover is silk-screened by Mat Daly, (also, edition of 500), introduction by Michael Grenke, layout and book design by Jason Bacasa.
A man named William Carlos Williams once said that “a man in himself is a city, beginning, seeking, achieving and concluding his life in was which the various aspects of a city may embody—if imaginatively conceived—any city, all the details of which may be made to voice his most intimate of convictions.” And if a man is a city, a city is made of men. The city in this case is Pittsburgh and it’s outlaying areas (its tributaries). Urabesque is a dual portrait, a portrait of the city and of the cities of men who comprise it. It is not a conventional portrait, but one seen in the corner of an eye, one gathered from the things left behind and, although each reader will leave with a different idea of what that portrait is, the truth of their simple details and convictions will continue to resonate long after the book is returned to the shelf.
NOW AVAILABLE!
pretend the Urbesque is a movie and watch the trailer (~13mb), By billy Morocco. This may take some time to upload. Perhaps you'd like some tea while you wait? or a hot toddy for that chill?
Press . . . . . . . Time Out Chicago, New City
buy this book for $20.00 (Incl. Shipping and Handling)
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COMING SOON, from Green Lantern Press |
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Things can happen when a man falls in love with a sweater. This book is about an unrequited love limited to self-imposed doctrines of propriety. Any number of intellectual conclusions can be drawn, but even the most serious will have to negotiate the gutter, which plagues Jon McManus and eventually the reader. It is divided in three parts, beginning with a Cinderella story. The first part is a straightforward narrative, the second a play of absurd humor and the third a choose your own adventure.
View illustrated excerpts from Lust and Cashmere.
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Simns take the preliminary steps toward validating the handshake as a monument of character. Through the documentation and speculative significance of handshakes he addresses both the general form of handshake and what particular handshakes denote.
“History and theory behind the handshake, tracing the practice back to Greco-Roman times and even the garden of Eden, where the serpent was apparently conducting too many shady handshake deals and had to be dis-armed so he’d cease and desist. Weird. Also very strange (but very cool) is the format of this booklet, which folds out into a kind of quadruple gatefold and contains full-color inserts detailing the varying types of handshakes and the spectrum of feelings they evoke. Handshake with joy buzzer is included in these diagrams." — AB QUIMBY'S
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This book is bound in a telegram intended for someone else. Inside are 69 pen and ink and drawings with small cursive text blocks that directs the reader. The drawings themselves are similarly intimate, describing a progression of human stumbling blocks that are not restricted to autobiography, but in fact bear application on all the rest of us. Fortunately there it elicits a kind chuckle.
View excerpts from Strategies of Being.
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