Bringing together the ideas behind this unique commission, this book features an illuminating conversation with Kwade about the work, as well as a detailed survey of her practice to date by curator Cameron Foote and new
essays by curator Daniel F. Herrmann and anthropologist Debbora Battaglia.
The exhibition is accompanied
by a fully illustrated catalogue with a foreword
by Christine McCarthy;
essays by the exhibition's
curators, Lise Motherwell and Elizabeth Smith; art historian
Daniel Belasco; and Alicia Longwell, Chief
Curator, and Terrie Sultan, Director, Parrish Art Museum.
An
essay by Paul Gravett, a writer and
curator who has worked in comics publishing and promotion for over 20 years, illuminates the long - standing love affair between fine art and comics, emphasizing contemporary practitioners in Britain and the U.S., including Laylah Ali, Glen Baxter,
Daniel Clowes, Liz Craft, R. Crumb, Adam Dant, Julie Doucet, Debbie Dreschler, Marcel Dzama, Mark Kalesniko, Kerstin Kartscher, Killoffer, Chad McCail, Paul McDevitt, Kerry James Marshall, Kim Pace, Raymond Pettibon, Olivia Plender, Jon Pylypchuk, James Pyman, Joe Sacco, David Shrigley, Posy Simmonds, Richard Slee, Carol Swain, Stéphane Blanquet, Melinda Gebbie, Alan Moore and Travis Millard.