Product Description: Through an arduous and rigorous process of constrained writing, artist Pablo Helguera takes on T. S. Eliot's monumental poem The Waste Land, eliminating letters and words inside the original work to produce a XXIst century reflection on art making today...read more

Product Description: "Helguera knows the lecture form inside out, in all its frailties and anachronisms, and he cares for it. But expect the Professor-Doctor of its terminal condition to be doing stand-up at the funeral."
 Dominic Willsdon, The Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art "While Helguera writes in a manner that suggests parody, he is simultaneously deadly serious and entirely accurate...read more

Product Description: "Adolescence prepares us for adulthood, but nothing truly prepares us for adolescence", says the protagonist of The Boy Inside the Letter. This autobiographical work written in the style of a Künstlerroman -a novel of artistic education- provides a rare glimpse into the mind of a XXIst century artist during his art school years...read more

Product Description: You¿ll find all sorts of things in Helguera¿s Manual that aren¿t in any other book: the difference between an A-level artist and a B-level artist, how to cure the dreaded ¿festivalist syndrome,¿ how to keep your conviction that you¿re the greatest artist in history, and whether it is ethical for a critic to sleep with an artist whose work she doesn¿t like...read more