Rodney Graham: Collector's Choice Vol. 1

by Rodney Graham (Artist), Dorothea Zwirner (Contributor), Friedrich Christian Flick (Contributor)

Volume 1 in the Collector's Choice Artists' Monographs from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection features the work of Canadian artist Rodney Graham as he strolls, via his works, through Modernism. On Graham's meandering itinerary through photography, literature, music, art, film, psychology, and linguistics, we encounter Richard Wagner, St»phane Mallarm», Edgar Allen Poe, Sigmund Freud, and Donald Judd, not to mention the prevalence of cinema and popular music. The contradictions in his work--gravity and play, reverential homage and scenarized self-presentation--show Graham to be a contemporary melancholic. This is the most comprehensive and insightful monograph of the artist's work to date.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 2005

About the author

William Rodney Graham OC was a Canadian visual artist and musician. He was closely associated with the Vancouver School.