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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Robert Ryman

Critical Texts Since 1967

Vittorio Colaizzi

This volume is an indispensable anthology of critical texts on a central figure of Minimalism, Conceptual Art and more specifically, Monochrome Painting. Alongside contemporaries such as Carl Andre and Donald Judd, Robert Ryman’s radical painting has fundamentally shifted the definitions and boundaries of art. Spanning four decades, this book charts the gradual evolution of consensus about the meaning of his painting. The most significant essays and exhibition reviews have been collated into one volume, including texts written by some of the most influential art historians and critics: Yve-Alain Bois, Douglas Crimp, Arthur C. Danto, Donald B. Kuspit, Lucy R. Lippard, Barbara Rose and Roberta Smith. Some essays appear here in English for the first time. With an introductory essay by Vittorio Colaizzi.

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