BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 10 x 8 in. / 112 pgs / 61 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/21/2020
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 134

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781733497107 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CDN $85.00 GBP £53.00

AVAILABILITY
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Renee Gladman & Fred Moten: One Long Black Sentence

A sumptuous artist’s book of acclaimed writer Renee Gladman’s fantastical drawings that merge writing and architecture, with a response from Fred Moten

Since 2013, poet, novelist, essayist and artist Renee Gladman (born 1971)—author of the acclaimed Ravickians novels—has been doing a kind of asemic writing that is also at once drawing and architecture (some of this work was published as Prose Architectures in 2017). Printed in white ink on black, with a beautiful embroidered cover, One Long Black Sentence brings together these drawings with a text by New York–based theorist and poet Fred Moten (born 1962) to form a sumptuous artist’s book in which drawing becomes an architecture for thought, for what writing looks like from the inside out.

Fred Moten’s “Anindex” pushes the index beyond its utilitarian conventions. At times riffing on the architectonics of Gladman’s illustrations, Moten’s associative poetic prose points toward the structuring imposition or emergence of sentences as the marks and forms of thought.

Featured image is reproduced from 'Renee Gladman & Fred Moten: One Long Black Sentence.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Bookforum

Albert Mobilio

Dynamic, anti-literate forms that require a fresh way of reading

Contemporary & Magazine

Nan Collymore

In the academic worlds that Renee Gladman and Fred Moten circle and re-imagine there is an entrenched notion of hermetically sealed arguments, of shut-off material worlds that do not intersect, yet each of their individual projects prove otherwise—that indeed there is overlap, intersection, and blur. Gladman expresses this with her new artist book One Long Black Sentence, drawing through unfolding mathematical equations, sentences, architecture, memories, and words.