Revenge publishing? A new genre? Or has it been around since writers first put pen to paper? Isn’t all writing to some degree a means to avenge an oversight or a rejection, intending to set the record straight? A number of pieces in this collection which were commissioned, accepted, and paid for, never appeared for one reason or another, whether devious or common: books don’t always cross the finish line. Years go by. Patience evaporates. Corrected Proofs aims to seek remedy. In addition to previously unpublished pieces, a number of essays and interviews were written specially for this collection: on Lutz Bacher and Charles Ray, with Arnold J. Kemp. There are heroes and villains, from the assassins John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cady Noland and Steven Parrino. Here the reader encounters usual suspects in unexpected context—Marcel Duchamp, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol—and artists recently rediscovered—Bob Smith and Stephen Varble—alongside Lee Lozano, the January 6 insurrection, and The Fall.
“The images that comprise this book come from two sheets slides that I have held onto for almost thirty years now. Over that time I have projected them talks I gave here and there, although never a talk devoted solely to the person that took them.That would be Laurie Parsons, an artist who was active between 1986 and 1994, a period of about 9 years . In the first three, she focused on found objects, things she would bring back from the urban, the natural, industrial environment, or their intersection.”—Bob Nickas, 2021
Produced on the occasion of the exhibition RED, curated by Robert Nickas at Isa Brachot Gallery, Brussels, 27 June–29 September 1990.
Including artists John Armleder, Barry X Ball, Robert Barry, Félix González-Torres, Marcia Hafif, Peter Halley, Donald Judd, Yves Klein, Imi Kneobel, Bertrand Lavier, Ken Lum, Olivier Mosset, Chuck Nanney, Steven Parrino, Laurie Parsons, Alan Uglow, Franz Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner amongst others.
Designed by Luc Derycke.
Produced on the occasion of the exhibitions Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time) curated by Robert Nickas at The Consortium, Dijon; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Le Capitou, Fréjus; Städtische Galerie, Göppigen; Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milano, presenting On Kawara’s Date paintings in relation to various contemporary photographs.
Featuring the following artists; Dan Graham, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Douglas Huebler, Lee Friedlander, Larry Clark, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Jan Groover, Peter Campus, James Welling, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Barbara Bloom, Louise Lawler, Sam Samore, John Coplans, Barbara Ess, Andres Serrano, David Robbins, Jeanne Dunning, Zoe Leonard, Félix González-Torres, Philip-Lorca Di Corcia, Charles Ray, Robert Barry, Danny Lyon.