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Matthew Brannon : to say the very least

Title: Matthew Brannon : to say the very least / [essay by Philip Monk].
Author: Brannon, Matthew, 1971-
Publication: Toronto : Art Gallery of York University, c2008.

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Description

175 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 31 cm.

Summary

"To Say the Very Least is the first comprehensive publication on the print works and installations by Matthew Brannon. Everything takes place on the surface, or just under it in Brannon's work, just as everything there is public or takes place in public. The prints exploit their generic relation to advertising and posters, but the benign appearance of the illustrations, reminiscent of 1950s cookbooks and cocktail manuals, is undercut by the fine imprint of letterpress texts, which teeter towards inappropriate confessions and unpardonable acts. These texts, with their hint of literary genres tinged by noir, are little melodramatic scenarios of success and failure, careerism and alcoholism, substance abuse and sexual misadventure. Each set of prints stages Brannon's principal question, "Why are people their own worst enemies?""--Jacket.

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To say the very least

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Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-172) and index.

Exhibitions (note)

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ont., Jan. 31-Apr. 1, 2007.

Contents

More than you know / Philip Monk.

ISBN

9780921972501
0921972504

OCLC

ocn191889809
191889809
SCSB-1488566

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library