AREA Contributor Mary Patten is releasing a new book next week. Check out "Eyes in the Back of My Head" from AREA #9.
Revolution as an Eternal Dream:
the Exemplary Failure of the Madame Binh Graphics Collective
by Chicago artist Mary Patten
WHEN: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011, 5:00-7:00 PM
WHERE: Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago
37 S. Wabash, 5th Floor, Chicago
DETAILS: FREE and open to the public. A reading by Mary Patten will start at 6:00 pm.
ABOUT THE BOOK AND AUTHOR:
Mary Patten’s Revolution as an Eternal Dream: the Exemplary Failure of the Madame Binh Graphics Collective examines the political practice and visual propaganda of a now-obscure women’s poster, printmaking, and street art collective based in New York City between 1975 and 1983, calling up the perpetual desire for revolution, but also the frailty of such dreams …
This is an 84-page book with full color graphics throughout. It includes a preface by the writer and critic Lucy Lippard as well as an afterword by the artist and writer Gregory Sholette.
Mary Patten is a visual artist, video-maker, writer, educator, and occasional curator with a long and checkered history of political engagement, solidarity, and activism. For the last 27 years she has lived and worked in Chicago, after finishing a one-year sentence on Rikers Island for resisting arrest at a notorious anti-apartheid protest. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a founding member of Feel Tank Chicago, “politicizing depression since 2003".
Published by Half Letter Press, ISBN: 978-0-9818023-1-2
Copies will be available for purchase at the event as well as at http://www.halfletterpress.com.
