Sean Landers

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SEAN LANDERS
Edited by Paul Ha. Text by Dominic Molon, Matthew Higgs.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037641781 | US $95.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2011
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SEAN LANDERS: [SIC]
GLENN HOROWITZ BOOKSELLER
ISBN: 9780982074787 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2010
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SEAN LANDERS
Edited by Beatrix Ruf. Text by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Alex Fahrquharson.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905829877 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 11/1/2008
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SEAN LANDERS: CARTOONS
Artwork by Sean Landers.
REGENCY ARTS PRESS
ISBN: 9780974903743 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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SEAN LANDERS
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9782940271535 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 3/15/2005
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Sean Landers

Sean Landers

1990–1995, Improbable History

Edited by Paul Ha. Text by Dominic Molon, Matthew Higgs.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Through media as various as paintings, diaristic calendars and performative videos, New York-based artist Sean Landers (born 1962) articulates his personal self-doubts and humiliations, attempting a sincere and unflinching excavation of the artist's consciousness. Landers foregrounds the artist's personality as an object worthy of study, and in his relentless articulation of emotion, at its most base and its most noble--from self-loathing to empathy and love--he reconceives and renews this persona. This volume, and the exhibition it accompanies at the Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, takes the years between 1990 and 1995 as Landers' formative and decisive period, and examines the conceits that he has cultivated over the course of his 20-year career, from the early yellow legal pads featuring the fictional artist Chris Hamson as autobiographer to the reclaiming of the persona by Landers' own voice.

Sean Landers: [sic]

Published by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller

Say for instance that I thought my life was worth describing every ugly detail of and that I was deluded enough to think my jerking off in my studio was something higher than what it is... So begins Sean Landers' [sic], an artist's book that reproduces a single extended writing performance piece from the early 1990s, as it was written out by hand.

Sean Landers

Edited by Beatrix Ruf. Text by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Alex Fahrquharson.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Announcing the second edition of this classic monograph--back in stock! Since the early 1990s, Sean Landers' oeuvre has proven to be one of the most fascinating and repeatedly irritating in contemporary art. (Over the years, he has become known as the artist who--with confessional and stream-of-consciousness texts and videos--presents himself as a failure in his art, his life and his relationships.) The polar opposites of tormented self-doubt and endless self-aggrandizement run like a thread through the artist's practice, along with a number of masks of failure used by the subject as a strategy to preserve himself from impending loser status. This volume presents an overview of Landers' work, including text and cartoon works on paper, paintings, sculpture, videos and audio works from 1992 to the present.

Sean Landers: Cartoons

Artwork by Sean Landers.
Published by Regency Arts Press

Whether you're a fan of Sean Landers's prolific, varied, purposely self-aggrandizing and simultaneously self-puncturing career or not (and no one is neutral), there's one thing that's indisputable: He's wickedly funny. And nowhere is his humor sharper than in these previously uncollected drawings from 1991-92, in which a cast of art-world strivers, including gallerists, painters and groupies, parade across the page with all their hilarious insecurities on display. The most prominent form in which Landers delivers his witty apercus through these characters is the T-shirt slogan: “I used to show in the 80s”; “I went to Yale too”; or “I emerged as an artist during the Gulf War.” In a drafting style that resembles a cleaned-up R. Crumb and with his trademark hand-lettered misspellings, Landers takes on all art types, exposing the shallowness of the successful artist and the flop, the egotism of the collector and critic, in sometimes bawdy and frequently laugh-out-loud satire. Amazingly, this is a book that would be equally at home in a museum restroom stall or an exhibition vitrine.

Sean Landers

Edited by Beatrix Ruf. Essay by Alex Farquharson. Interview collaboration by Beatrix Ruf and CaoimhÃn Mac Giolla LeÃth.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Since the early 1990s, Sean Landers has made some of the most fascinating and repeatedly irritating art in circulation. The polar opposites of tormented self-doubt and endless self-aggrandizement run like threads through the artist's practice, as do several masks of failure that Landers uses as a strategy to preserve himself from impending loser-status. As the artist puts it, "My original idea was to make conceptual art entertaining, sloppy, emotional, human, and funny. Over the years I got so far out on this conceptual limb that I went around full circle until I was a traditional artist again. I tried to be ironic about it but eventually became sincere. Now I'm a happy victim of my own charade." This monograph presents an overview of Lander's oeuvre and includes works from 1992 to the present.