The Jet Age Compendium
Paolozzi at Ambit by David Brittain
A collection of the artist's collages, visual essays and texts for the quarterly magazine (pictured right). To be published in the spring of 2009.
Chronicle: A Project By Group Material
The first monograph on the New York based artists ’ collaborative known for its socio-political art practice. Organised by former group members in keeping with the methods and aims Group Material employed, the book charts the origins, processes, developments, projects and contexts of the group’s activities, and draws heavily from Group Material’s archive, including original documents, photographs,drawings, correspondence, artefacts, anecdotal information and texts. Group Material created 45 projects during its period of activities(1979–1996), each represented though installation photography andinformation from original proposals, exhibition statements, press releases, responses, etc. One emblematic exhibition project, AIDS Timeline, will be examined in detail, from collected material and newly conducted interviews. An essay by Julie Ault and Doug Ashford will further illuminate the methods and principles of Group Material’spractice from a current perspective. To be published in 2010.
Other titles include: a new book by Harrell Fletcher, and two more volumes in 2009 in the Familiars series, by Kay Rosen and Colter Jacobsen respectively.
