Product Description: Artist and writer Frances Stark (born 1967) addresses the doubts and anxieties of creative labor, in self-portraits that she elaborates into cross-disciplinary explorations of language as both subject matter and material. The digressive style that typifies her writing is echoed in the experience of her installations, in which themes emerge across citations from pop music and literature...read more

Product Description: This exhibition catalogue disguised as an artist's book presents recent work by the Los Angeles artist, writer and all-around favorite, Frances Stark. Taking as her starting point the novel Ferdydurke by the esteemed Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, Stark explores two key aspects of the novel, according to Andras Palffy, President of the esteemed Viennese exhibition space, Secession--"the individual's right to uncertainty or immaturity and all possible forms of masquerade" and "deception towards one's environment...read more

Product Description: The Los Angeles-based artist and art writer Frances Stark has gathered an international cult following for her prolific prose and her smart, honest and intimate artwork. This engaging artist's book is conceived as a companion piece to Stark's Collected Writings 1993-2003, fashioning itself as a graphic counterpart that draws from the artist's paintings, collages, drawings, videos, poetry and more, from 1993 to the present...read more

Product Description: Inspired by the symmetrical, Jeffersonian layout of the American Pavilion's Neoclassical architecture, and by Thomas Cole's cycle of the same name, Ed Ruscha installed this ten-painting exhibition titled Course of Empire at the 2005 Venice Biennale...read more

Product Description: Presented in a pseudo-autobiographical style that offers poetic musings to create meandering, off-centered texts, this volume by Frances Stark brings together many of her texts for the first time, including essays on artists and her infamous art + text column...read more

Product Description: The art world lost a unique talent and sensitive soul when Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975) died during his project "In Search of the Miraculous," which involved crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a sail boat. Bas Jan Ader's melancholy and metaphysical art built upon themes developed in the literary and dramatic work of Samuel Beckett--an artistic kindred spirit of Jan Ader's...read more