1999 144 pages, 5x 7", offset , 800 copies, Paper
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Deschamps has collaborated with Dr. Gwen Ryberg of the Institute of Personality Assessment to produce a case study of the fictional Mr. O, a schizophrenic professor. Mr. O. believed that he was in Bolivia with Che Guevera in 1967 and that in 1991 the Argentinean artist/ guerrilla, Bustos, sent him to Cuba on an espionage mission. This book brings together historical facts, documentary images of Cuba and a baffling narrative to raise issues concerning social change through violence and the passive position that most of us play in regards to this issue. The book concludes that Mr. O lived in a shadowy world "part real, part imagined in which violence and history were the only two reliable protagonists." Chase Manhattan Artist-In-Residence Project ISBN: 89822-076-9Paper $15.00 + shipping $17.75 Add to Cart |
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François Deschamps, THE RETURN
OF THE SLAPSTICK PAPYRUS
1988, 132 pgs, photographs throughout, 71/2 x 71/2"
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This photographic whodunnit deals with issues of imagery and power within the framework of a picaresque tale of humorous intent. Photographing, in part, in Asia and the Near East, Deschamps upends visual and cultural preconceptions as his private eye, Rogue, confronts a culture whose rulers use images to control the world. NYSCA Visual Artist's Project ISBN: 0-89822-051-3Paper $15.00 + shipping $18.25 Add to Cart |
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