by Jon Lackman | 24 March 2008 | Books
Should you happen to find it difficult staying awake at CAA one year, you might try gathering tips at the booth of art publisher Abbeville. At one recent conference, they passed the time writing “a story incorporating every single title on display.” Read it at their new blog, the Abbeville Manual of Style, which “discusses topics related to Abbeville, publishing, and the arts in a funnier, more informal fashion”:
Tales of the People: An Extraordinary Journey of Rediscovery
Long ago, I rode to China in a VW Bus with a Jew from Uganda and Norman Rockwell.
We sang Nothing But the Blues and played a lot of Chess. We finally arrived at a villa in the style of the immortal Palladio, where we were visited by Goddesses in Art, who handed us a tablet inscribed with Maya Script that instructed us to start a Civil Rights Movement.
We started the movement in the Fine West by planting a Bonsai tree. When our gospel we had to China Revealed, we pondered which of the Seven Trails West to take. I stopped In the Market, which had an aura of The Nixon Years. Hieronymus Bosch was there, practicing Chinese Calligraphy, and he asked us, “Have you seen any Women Artists?” …
