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Autumn 2017 Hello We are pleased to announce Black Dog Publishing’s Autumn 2017 catalogue, which includes an exciting range of new titles, as well as recent bestsellers and our renowned backlist. New titles for the autumn season include Bish Bosch, the first scholarly analysis of Scott Walker’s work published with the musician’s permission; Becoming Animal, a study of existential human experience through art; and folly, a beautiful publication of British artist Phyllida Barlow’s work for the upcoming British Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Celebrating 150 years of Canada, we are excited to introduce The Faraway Nearby, which offers stunning documentation and a unique view into Canadian history through photographs published in The New York Times. Alongside this, Kent Monkman: Shame and Prejudice, A Story of Resilience, our second publication with the artist, documents an extensive collection of his paintings, drawings and sculptural work, which offer the audience an acute and scathing commentary on Canada’s chequered history. We are also pleased to announce the reprinting of Wreckers of Civilisation, the iconic book that explored the history of the British musical and visual arts group Throbbing Gristle. Finally, this season’s catalogue presents two fascinating titles that are of great importance for America, and that have gained the support of the acclaimed, far-reaching and ambitious Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative from Getty, which explores Latin American and Latino art. The first, How to Read El Pato Pascual, is a thrilling investigation into Walt Disney’s influence on Latin American popular culture and visual art, and intends to show how culture is created through a sequence of exchanges, responses and (mis)appropriations. This is followed by Guatemala from 33,000 km, the first major publication that documents Guatemalan contemporary art, and the sociopolitical trends that made the country's art scene flourish. As always, we continue to support our diverse range of popular backlist titles including Picasso: The Artist and His Muses; RAVE: Rave and its Influence on Art and Culture; Turn and Face the Strange; Lost Utopias; The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernism in Montreal; The Nuclear Culture Source Book; Frank Bros.: The Store That Modernized Modern, and many more. 1 Black Dog Publishing New Titles 6 8 12 30 34 38 HOW TO READ EL PATO PASCUAL GUATEMALA FROM 33,000 KM BISH BOSCH LIBRE MEL KENDRICK KENT MONKMAN Disney’s Latin America Contemporary Art Ambisymphonic: A Project DHC/ART Wood Blocks Shame and Prejudice, and Latin America’s Disney from 1960–Present by Scott Walker, Water Drawings A Story of Resilience Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard 16 18 20 42 44 46 WRECKERS OF CIVILISATION FOLLY THE FARAWAY NEARBY EMPIRE OF ILLUSION NEIL GALL OUT OF ICE Phyllida Barlow Photographs from The New York Times Terry Munro The Drawings The Secret Language of Ice Canadian Collection 22 26 28 50 52 54 BECOMING ANIMAL HARTMUT BÖHM THE PALE PATH FORM FOLLOWS FICTION ENTANGLED SIMON ENGLISH Objects in Dialogue Stephen Appleby-Barr Art and Artists in Toronto Two Views on Contemporary my big self decoy justin beiber Canadian Painting 2 3 Black Dog Publishing 56 58 60 IRIS HAÜSSLER THE BOOK OF NEOISM?! FORM, MODEL, SYNTAX, DISPLAY The Sophie La Rosière Project Terence Gower Sculpture Works New Titles 62 64 66 GARY PEARSON WHAT NOW? NECROPOLITICS AND ITS Short Fictions On Future Identities DISCONTENTS Art, Morality and the Political Imagination 68 70 71 DES HUGHES AFTER THE EDUCATIONAL TURN BACKLIST One Hand Washes the Other Critical Art Pedagogies and Decolonialism 107 CONTACTS Image from The Pale Path 4 HOW TO READ EL PATO PASCUAL Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney Editors: Jesse Lerner and Rubén Ortiz-Torres Investigating the reception and reuse of the imagery of one of the world’s largest production companies, How to Read El Pato Pascual explores the prevalent presence of Walt Disney in Latin America. Examined through artworks including painting, photography, graphic work, drawing, sculpture and video, as well as vernacular MAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE objects and documentary material, the book considers Disney’s engagement within Latin America, extending from Donald Duck’s first featured role, the 1937 Mexican-themed short Don Donald, to the 2013 attempt to copyright the Day of the Dead. The reach and influence of Disney is also examined in a series of commissioned essays drawing on cultural studies, UK Aug 2017 historical research and postcolonial theory. How to Read El US/CAN Sep 2017 Pato Pascual also features a reprint of How to Read Donald Duck Hardback (Chile, 1971), an essay by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart ISBN 978-1-911164-72-2 that critiques Disney comics through a Marxist lens as vehicles £29.95 · $45.00 of American cultural imperialism. 30 × 23 cm · 9 × 12 in The book includes artistic contributions from artists 304 pages · 180 ills including Liliana Porter, Nadín Ospina, Enrique Chagoya, and Arturo Herrera, as well as written contributions from Jesse English and Spanish Lerner and Rubén Ortiz-Torres, amongst others. 6 7 GUATEMALA FROM 33,000 KM Contemporary Art from 1960–Present Contributors: Rosina Cazali Escobar, Silvia Herrera Ubico, Mario Roberto Morales, Martín Fernández Ordóñez et al Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art from 1960– Present features artists, works and themes that have defined Guatemala’s contemporary art scene since the 1960s. The book brings together works that have rarely been seen outside Guatemala, but that speak to a range of formal, political and social concerns that permeate contemporary art both in Latin America and across the globe. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SANTA BARBARA Featuring artwork in a range of media that traces the tumultuous route traversed through the history of Guatemala since the mid-twentieth century, the book is structured around UK Oct 2017 clusters or groups of works that represent central ideas, US/CAN Dec 2017 themes and media that have been pivotal in Guatemala’s Flexicover art over the last 50 plus years. These clusters are: art and ISBN 978-1-911164-41-8 politics; land, landscape, territory; popular cultures; racism £29.95 · $39.95 and identities; religion, spirituality, metaphysics; gender 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in perspectives; violence and trauma; art histories; and formal 192 pages · 140 ills experimentation. The book contains full-colour reproductions of the works, Spanish edition as well as essays that relay a wealth of new research, by ISBN 978-1-911164-47-0 curators and Guatemalan scholars Rosina Cazali Escobar, Silvia Herrera Ubico, Mario Roberto Morales and Martín Fernández Ordóñez. Guatemala from 33,000 km is a visual record of many works that have been not been documented. It will itself be a product of contemporary Guatemalan artistic practitioners, and is designed by Ambush Studio, which is based in Guatemala City. Published in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, in conjunction with the exhibition Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art from 1960–Present. Shirin Aliabadi, Miss Hybrid 3, 2008 8 8 9 Image from Guatemala from 33,000 km 10 11 > BISH BOSCH Ambisymphonic: A Project by Scott Walker, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard 92995 Editor: Christopher Scoates Contributors: Scott Walker, Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Rob Young Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic presents the first scholarly analysis of Scott Walker’s work, and is the first book to be published with 164029 the musician’s permission. The publication will critically examine Walker’s uncompromising, avant-garde ‘trilogy’, which began with Tilt in 1995, continued with The Drift 11 years later, and concluded in 2012 with his longest studio album to date, Bish Bosch. 781911 In 2013, Walker teamed up with British mixed-media artists ISBN 9781911164029 9 Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard to create Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic, an utterly unique and immersive sonic reimagining of the UK Oct 2017 groundbreaking album. The book features a rare interview conducted US/CAN Dec 2017 with Scott Walker by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard on the making of Hardback the installation, together with fragments of the Bish Bosch score, ISBN 978-1-911164-43-2 the complete spatialisation script, rare never-before-seen pictures £39.95 · $49.95 and notebook pages, and Walker’s handwritten lyrics, made 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in available by the musician himself. In addition, several binaural 288 pages · 240 ills mixes of the ambisonic arrangements of the tracks featured in the installation will be included as a digital download. Special audio edition including The Wire’s Rob Young and curator and writer Christopher recording of Bish Bosch Scoates succinctly place Walker’s work within the history of ISBN 978-1-911164-80-7 sound art and the larger context of experimental music, while a £59.95 · $75.00 roster of Walker’s collaborators provide insight into the working practices of this most reclusive of musicians. 12 13 Image from Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic 14 15 WRECKERS OF CIVILISATION Editor: Simon Ford “These people are the wreckers of civilisation”, exclaimed the Conservative Member of Parliament Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976. His outburst was meant to describe four artists and musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter—members of the seminal band Throbbing Gristle. Throbbing Gristle are widely lauded as the band that invented industrial music, and their influence can be observed across today’s musical landscape: from house and techno to industrial death metal. Wherever experimental electronic music is being made, Throbbing Gristle’s influence can be felt. From the foreword by Jon Savage: “Wreckers of Civilisation recalls a time which, despite volumes of print, remains occluded, obdurate, even intimidating: that moment before the conservative UK Aug 2017 reconstruction.