109 Stackheads
by Ernst G. Benkert
109 Stackheads reproduces the contents of a sketch-book filled by Benkert between May 27th and June 17th, 2000. The “Stackheads” of the title identify the outline that Benkert used to frame the highly worked, amazingly varied interiors. Individually they will seem pure abstractions, but taken collectively they might be read as representations of the interior weather of the human head.
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978-0-9827234-0-1
$35 paperback only
Blue Fire
by Wendy Walker
In Blue Fire a major new work in poetic non-fiction, Wendy Walker reexamines the case of Constance Kent, protagonist at 15 of “the Great Crime of 1860.” Accused of murdering her younger half-brother and stuffing his body down the privy at her father’s house at Road in Wiltshire, Constance was cleared at the coroner’s inquest. In the view of most at the time, the boy had been killed by his father and his nurse. Yet five years later in 1865 Constance, under the influence of a priest, confessed to the crime. [...]
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ISBN: 978-0-9800001-5-3
$20
Homomorphic Converters
by Tom La Farge
Homomorphic Converters, the second pamphlet in the series 13 Writhing Machines, continues Tom La Farge’s exploration of the techniques of constrained composition, begun in Administrative Assemblages (recently reissued in a perfectbound paperback edition). Homomorphism is new wine in old bottles, and Homomorphic Converters teaches you how to use a pre-existing form of words or of images, found or invented, to express matter radically different from what that form originally expressed. [...]
ISBN: 978-0-9800001-9-1
$10
623 Titles Without Paintings
by Ernst Benkert
For fifty years a painter, Ernst Benkert, kept notebooks in which he recorded the passages that had struck him in his reading. From the writings of Meister Eckhart and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robertson Davies and Thomas Bernhard, Oscar Wilde and Friedrich Nietzsche, Abram Tertz and Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag and Thomas Merton, from proverbs Rumanian and Haitian, from graffiti and the Upanishads, from the Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, from the pages of the Times Literary Supplement and The New York Review of Books, and above all from a library of books about art, Benkert culled an extraordinary set of assertions, propositions, opinions, and definitions. [...]
ISBN: 978-0-9800001-4-6
$20
The Social Vision of Alfred T. White
Essays by Lisa Ackerman, Olive Hoogenboom, Tom La Farge, Kathy Madden, Francis Morrone, Benjamin Warnke and Sally Yarmolinsky. Edited by Wendy Walker.
A book of essays about the little known but immensely important 19th century Brooklyn social visionary.
The Social Vision of Alfred T. White is the first full-length study of the work of Alfred Tredway White (1846-1921). Largely forgotten today, his name known only to specialists, Alfred White at his death was eulogized as “the great heart and master-mind of Brooklyn’s better self” for his many forward-looking innovations in low-income housing and in promoting the welfare of poor children, for his ability to enlist others to this work, and for his insistence that rapidly growing Brooklyn retain a sense of community values. [...]
ISBN: 978-0-9800001-1-5
$22
Administrative Assemblages
by Tom La Farge
Administrative Assemblages is No. 1 in the series, 13 Writhing Machines, Tom La Farge’s pamphlets on constrained (oulipian) writing. Thirty-six pages long and illustrated with attractive and curious images such as Sir Francis Galton’s display case of eyeballs, Administrative Assemblages discusses the use in composition of forms that the world sends us: the book-index (J. G. Ballard), the US Zip Code Directory (Paul Metcalf), or the gallery checklist (Gilbert Sorrentino). [...]
ISBN: 978-0-980000-8-1
$10
Play Book
Art Director: Maddy Rosenberg, Editor: Wendy Walker, Creative Director: Sasha Chavchavadze
Play Book, the initial offering of Proteotypes, was published in conjunction with the Proteus Gowanus 2007-8 theme “Play.” The Play Book collects artist’s interpretations and configurations of play, ready to cut, fold, paste, and assemble. Included are a match game, a word game, a word maze, a geometric puzzler, paper dolls, an automaton, a miniature card deck, a flip-book, and a toy theater. Other features include images of play and games, pages of anagrams and palindromes, ponderings on the meaning of play, conundrums by Lewis Carroll, and a short play by Gertrude Stein.
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