Revisionist Art: Thirty Works by Bob Dylan
exhibition catalogue
concept and book design
In Revisionist Art, singer Bob Dylan turns artist and offers silk screened covers of popular magazines from the last half century that somehow escaped history’s notice. In his introduction, Luc Sante says that the works seem to emanate “from a world just slightly removed from ours—a world a bit more honest about its corruption, its chronic horniness, its sweat, its body odor.”
The book also includes a history of Revisionist Art, as well as commentaries on the works which, as Gagosian says, “prove that history is not quite what we think it is.”
design It was a rare honour to work with Bob Dylan and his studio. The introduction and essay run through the whole book, with every paragraph typeset to fill a page. Accordingly, text varies in size — the shorter the paragraph, the bigger the letters, and vice versa. Images are inlaid on shorter pages and glossy stock in contrast to the bulky matt stock of the text pages.
client Gagosian Gallery, New York. Larry Gagosian opened his first gallery in Los Angeles in 1980, focusing on modern and contemporary art. Today, Gagosian has evolved into a global network with 16 exhibition spaces in the US, Europe and the Far East.
collaborators
John Elderfield, editor
articles & links
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