ITEM #163
The Dirty Book
Barbara Rosenthal
2010, 4"x4.5" box containing 3.5"x4"x2" bookwork
handmade artists' book, #4 of 12, signed and numbered
Value: $800
Minimum bid: $100
Born in The Bronx, NYC, in 1948, Barbara Rosenthal is an avant-garde artist who produces idiosyncratic combinations of words, communicative sounds, gestures, objects, prints, photographs and videos that are in the collections of MoMA, Whitney, Tate, Jewish Museum NY, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin Kunstbibliotek, Artpool, etc, and have been exhibited this year at Wilson Williams Gallery (London), 10Gales Gallery (London), Berlin Directors Lounge, Lettretage (Berlin), Gran' Place (Brussels),and Central Booking (Brooklyn). She has been reviewed in The NY TImes, Village Voice, Arts, NYArts, Flash Art Interrnational, and Book Arts Magazine. In 2009 and 2010 she represented the U.S. in both Performance Art and Text-Based Art at Tina B Prague International Contemporary Art Festival. Besides the many handmade artist's books published by eMediaLoft.org, four of her major offset books have been published by VSW Press: Clues to Myself (1981), Sensations (1984), Homo Futurus (1986), Soul & Psyche (1996). Her books and prints are represented by Central Booking, Brooklyn. Her life is her inspiration, and her incessant recording and retrieving of it from the prism of her 50-year-journal yeilds zany, philosophical, content-rich, and often humorous work about the relationship between an artist’s psyche and the outer world, with the anthropological extrapolation to that of all human beings, i.e, YOU.