Max Guy But Tell Me, Is It a Civilized Country? |
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| Author:
| Guy, Max |
| Memoir by:
| Barton, Brit
Harrison, Michael |
| Contribution by:
| Haiduk, Irena |
| ISBN: | 978-0-941548-89-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2024 |
| Publisher: | Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, The
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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A catalog of an exhibition by contemporary artists Max Guy that uses The Wizard of Oz as a way to ask questions about society and culture. This book accompanies Max Guy's exhibition "But tell Me, is it a civilized country?," an installation of new works centered on
The Wizard of Oz. The title is drawn from a conversation between the Witch of the North and Dorothy in which the Witch defines "civilized" as not including magic. Anchored in...
More Description A catalog of an exhibition by contemporary artists Max Guy that uses The Wizard of Oz as a way to ask questions about society and culture.
This book accompanies Max Guy's exhibition "But tell Me, is it a civilized country?," an installation of new works centered on The Wizard of Oz. The title is drawn from a conversation between the Witch of the North and Dorothy in which the Witch defines "civilized" as not including magic.
Anchored in Chicago--where L. Frank Baum's novel was written and first published, and home to enduring monuments to Oz fandom--the exhibition and book bridge the parallel universes of the Emerald City and its birthplace, drawing out the traces each carries of the other. A number of latent currents course underneath the work: critical perspectives on modernist urbanism, the peculiar products of fan culture, and the transformative power of storytelling and other acts of world-making.
This catalog features essays by artist and writer Brit Barton and the exhibition's curator, Michael Harrison, as well as a transcription of a conversation between Guy and artist and writer Irena Haiduk. The book will also include a new artist project made specifically for the book in the form of an annotated bibliography created by Guy of writings and images that relate to and inspire his practice.