In this frank and provocative conversation, Thom Andersen and William E. Jones explore an expansive number of topics in relation to their respective film and art practices, among them: the advent of HD technology, experimental filmmakers and their strategies, Los Angeles, "militant nostalgia," Jesus as revolutionary, the limitations of the art world, art criticism, gay culture, William Morris, and "the Reagans at church."

Thom Andersen / William E. Jones (Between Artists)

Thom Andersen

William E. Jones

A.R.T. PRESS

Prints 130 tri-toned black-and-white images scanned from negatives in the collection of the Library of Congress. Jones's book is the first to deal exclusively with the 35mm negatives that FSA director Roy Stryker killed with a hole punch during the early years of the project (1935-39). The book brings to light destroyed or defaced photographs by Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, and others; it also includes two essays by Jones discussing the images and possible reasons for their suppression.Oblong 4to.; black-and-white photographs; tan cloth over boards, stamped in white; printed white label on spine.Edition of 1000 copies.

Killed: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration

PPP EDITIONS

The most beautiful cosmos is a pile of random sweepings. This aphorism by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus provided the inspiration for the book Flesh and the Cosmos. Artist and filmmaker William E. Jones project, which he calls automatic illustration, shows the results of Internet image searches based upon a century s worth of translations of Heraclitus phrase from eight words in Ancient Greek. The images range from the sublime to the ridiculous. The artist, whose work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts and Tate Modern, writes: A text from the very beginning of philosophy in the Western tradition ... can make the unspoken manias and taboos of contemporary society available to us in a new way. The fragment has also been the subject of scholarly debate, summarized here in essays by classicists Jonathan Barnes and Richard Fletcher. Published by David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

Flesh and the Cosmos

Ram Publications

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Angela Dufresne: Making a Scene", organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and curated by Erin Dziedzic, director of curatorial affairs at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

Angela Dufresne: Making a Scene

Erin Dziezdic

Melissa Ragona

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

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Thom Andersen / William E. Jones (Between Artists)

Killed: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration

Flesh and the Cosmos

Angela Dufresne: Making a Scene