Research Catalog

Title

Games are forbidden in the labyrinth / Javier Téllez ; with contributions by Ruth Estévez, Hesse McGraw, and Dieter Roelstraete.

Author

Téllez, Javier, 1969-

Publication

Amsterdam : Stichting Roma Publications, c2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Estévez, Ruth, 1977-
• McGraw, Hesse
• Roelstraete, Dieter
• REDCAT (Art center) host institution.
• San Francisco Art Institute host institution.

Description

191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 21cm.

Summary

Javier Téllez holds a singular perspective on issues surrounding psychiatric treatment, mental illness, normalcy, and the spaces we construct to confine these vexing questions. This book comprises a visual essay, purportedly a guide to the rules of chess, yet interwoven with texts by philosophers, literary figures, sociologists, and others, while touching upon references as diverse as Hieronymus Bosch, the Rorschach test, electroconvulsive therapy, and the Sharon Tate murders. Emergent new possibilities are confined by the administration of norms, albeit within an empathetic space.

Subject

• Téllez, Javier, 1969- > Exhibitions
• Téllez, Javier, 1969-
• Psychiatry in art > Exhibitions
• Chess in art > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art) > Exhibitions
• Chess in art
• Installations (Art)
• Psychiatry in art

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at REDCAT, Los Angeles, April 5-June 1, 2014 ; Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute, September 9-December 13, 2014.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Hesse McGraw -- Games are forbidden in the labyrinth, or how do you pay chess? / Javier Téllez -- "Abandon all reason, you who enter here" / Ruth Estévez -- Javier Téllez and the critique of productive reason / Dieter Roelstraete.

ISBN

• 9789491843297
• 949184329X

OCLC

• 904541755
• SCSB-10240364

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library