Rodney Graham: A Little Thought [Hardcover]

Grant Arnold (Author), Jessica Bradley (Author), Cornelia Butler (Author), Diedrich Diederichsen (Author), Shepherd Steiner (Author), Lynne Cooke (Author), Sara Krajewski (Author), Rodney Graham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2, 2004

One of Canada's most humorous conceptual artists--as witty as he is smart--Rodney Graham gets his first North American museum retrospective and accompanying catalogue. Rodney Graham: A Little Thought tracks the career of a brilliant, idiosyncratic artist whose work spans a range of media including photography, film, book works, installation, and pop music. In this volume, amply illustrated with many never-before-seen images from early in his career as well as new photography of his most recent works, scholarly essays provide a broad context for viewing: Cornelia Butler looks at Graham's relationship to landscape and Canadian identity, Lynne Cooke examines the construction of the artist's persona in works such as City Self/ Country Self (2001), and Shep Steiner discusses the joke as a conceptual strategy for Graham. Diedrich Diederichsen considers the artist's oeuvre within the context of musical structure, and Sara Krajewski describes how Graham's video works unfold. Finally, Grant Arnold offers an in-depth illustrated chronology, tracing the range of activities that have occupied Graham since his early days on the Vancouver scene.

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Graham gained international recognition at the 1997 Venice Biennale. Since then he has become one of the most in-demand artists in the world. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (May 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914357883
• ISBN-13: 978-0914357889
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 10 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,006,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably best overview in print of this major artist, March 11, 2008

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Adam Kesher - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rodney Graham: Collector's Choice Vol. 1 (Collector's Choice Artists Monographs) (Hardcover)

I stumbled onto Rodney Graham's retrospective show at MOCA in LA four years ago, and it changed my life a little bit.

Graham's work is intellectually powerful; he is one example of an artist that will continually shed light on his own work through explanatory notes. This book covers Graham's earliest exhibited works and plows through steadily to about 2004. Attention given to the formative stuff is really valuable, since he got little recognition outside of Canada before the late 90s. I think the artist is really in the midst of his prime right now, so it's not yet possible for a comprehensive monograph... but this comes pretty close.