by Jon Lackman | 19 May 2006 | Books, Contemporary
From the MIT Press blog: “We’re very pleased to introduce a new collaboration with Afterall Publishing … Afterall came about in 1998, when the artist and filmmaker Mark Lewis and the curator and writer Charles Esche conceived a journal called Afterall, with the goal of foregrounding the work of contemporary artists … Afterall is now introducing a series of books … Afterall Books will come in two formats. The first is a series of survey publications (anthologies and readers) that will explore specific cultural and political effects on contemporary art practice. The second series contains smaller books that will, over time, form a uniformly designed library of volumes, each focused on an important single work of art … The first books in the series have arrived—Ilya Kaboakov: The Man Who Flew Into Space from His Apartment by Boris Groys (which some of you may have seen this installation at the recent Russia! show at the Guggenheim in New York), Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous by Jan Verwoert, and Hollis Frampton: (nostalgia) by Rachel Moore. East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe, [edited] by IRWIN should arrive shortly. And watch for news about two more Afterall titles on Richard Prince and Joan Jonas in the coming months.”
