The Royal Art Lodge

Women and Children

The Canadian art group the Royal Art Lodge, currently made up of Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, and Michael Dumontier, used Farber’s dining room table to create the 160 tiny (7.6cm x 8.9 cm) paintings on wood featured in this book. The deliberately crude, almost comicbook-like pictures, typical of this groundbreaking collective, include vague and puzzling epigrams, exploring the dreamy and melancholic thoughts we have about women and children-the fears, the sadness, and the desire to protect both. A powerful essay by Guido Bartorelli examines how The Royal Art Lodge exemplifies what Marshall McLuhan called “low-definition” media-and how fitting its approach and affect are in this technological age.

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