This dazzling volume records the artist’s travels through the Lone Star State, a grand expedition for our time Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world. His installations mine the materials of the past to level an institutional critique in the present. Evoking the grand expeditionary journals of the 19th century, this singular volume records Dion’s latest work, produced through his crisscrossing of Texas and exploration of the Lone Star State. Dion retraces the travels of four artists and naturalists—John James Audubon, Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles Wright—who journeyed to the region over a century ago. Dion’s travel companions include preservationists, ranchers, botanists, a poet, a tarot card reader, and fellow artists who offer accompanying texts, while lavish illustrations feature the objects Dion made or collected during his travels alongside historical artworks and botanical specimens. The result is a stunning document of the American West, past and present.

The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion

Arts & Photography

Dion, Mark

Adler, Margaret C.

History & Criticism

Other Distribution

Combining humour and seriousness, this picture-filled book beautifully documents an artistic collaboration across more than two centuries. Mark Dion's travel diary and reproductions of letters and texts about the Bartram's Garden and its people make this book a treasure trove of exploration.

Travels of William Bartram Reconsidered

Individual Artists

John Bartram Association

<div>A major monograph published to accompany the first museum survey of the renowned photographer and conceptual artist Rosamond Purcell (b. 1942), known for her strangely beautiful, often unsettling photographs of objects from the natural and man-made</div>

Rosamond Purcell: Nature Stands Aside

Irmscher, Christoph

Rathbone, Belinda

Morris, Errol

Wilkins, Gordon

Graphic Design

Rizzoli Electa

8vo. 128 pp, Mark Dion's Surrealist Legacy by David Lomas; I. The Museum; II. Department of Zoology; III. Department of Botany; IV. Department of Earth Science; V. Department of Ethnology; VI. Department of Archaeology; VII. Departm; ent of Paradoxes and Numismatics; VIII. Archives; The Bureau de Recherches Surrealistes: Bureau by Anna Dezeuze; Laboratory by David Lomas; 'Centrale' by Julia Kelly; IX. The Bureau; acknologments with illustrations throughout. Opus Projects: Opus 4: Published by The AHRB Research Center for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies and Book Works in associaltion with Alchemy/The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, 2005. Pictorial paper-covered boards with decorative endpapers. "Don't look for lobster telephones or other cheap surrealist cliches in Dion's Bureau. The link operates on another level, on pinpointed by Walter Benjamin who observed that the surerealists were the first to discern a revolutionary potential in the obsolete and the outmoded, in the material by-products and refuse of modernity. Self-consciously following in the surrealist' footsteps, Dion and his assistants scoured the flea markets of Manchester looking for a fireplace mantle and picture frames. The office furniture, including an opulent bureau desk retrieved from university stores where it had been discarded to gather dust. Books and sundry that now fill the shelves of the Bureau were earmarked for the incinetator -- Dion rescues these things and offers them a refuge. One can think of the Bureau as a snapshot or memento of a mode o curatorial practice that Dion might have felt was in danger of being irretrievable lost."from Mark Dion's Surrealist Legacy.

Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism And Its Legacy (Opus Projects S.)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Book Works

Oceanomania investigates the evolution of our fascination with the sea, in time and space, design, literature and art, revealing how the uncanny and marvelous have inspired artistic research. Continuing his investigations as a naturalist, archaeologist and traveler, the American artist Mark Dion explored the collections of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco to create a monumental curiosity cabinet and dived into the collections of the Nouveau Musee National de Monaco (NMNM) to present a major intervention at Villa Paloma, one of the NMNM's exhibition spaces. The accompanying publication, Oceanomania: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas published by MACK and NMNM combines installation images from the exhibition, original artist imagery and essays from various writers exploring the different facets of the exploration of the seas and the challenges in exhibiting a marine world above sea level."

Oceanomania

Mack Pub Co

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