Bad Manners: On the Creative Potentials of Modifying Other Artists' Work

Jake Chapman, Yuval Etgar

ISBN 10: 1909932701 / ISBN 13: 9781909932708

Published by Ridinghouse, 2022

About this Item

First Edition (2022.) 8vo paperback with 55 + pages. The book is in very good condition. Interior is clean and tight. Illustrated. "From cannibalistic acts of modification or alteration of another's work to the hijacking of authorship through the addition of a signature, to occasions when the identities of artists or their creations are confused, this innovative history traces acts of artistic modification from Dada to the present." Artists include: Jean (Hans) Arp, Enrico Baj, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Cezanne, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcel Duchamp, Wade Guyton, Richard Hamilton, David Hammons, Keith Haring, Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Sherrie Levine, René Magritte, Man Ray, Édouard Manet, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Jean Tinguely and Francesco Vezzoli. Pink spine/Black text. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bad Manners: On the Creative Potentials of Modifying Other Artists' Work
• Publisher: Ridinghouse
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909932701
• ISBN 13: 9781909932708
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Catalogs / Exhibitions

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Synopsis

Bad Manners is an original history of non-consensual collaboration between artists, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Narrated by artist Jake Chapman and art historian Yuval Etgar, this book takes the reader through a wealth of artworks and anecdotes involving cannibalistic acts of modification or alteration of another artist’s work, the hijacking of authorship through the addition of a signature, and occasions when the identities of artists or their creations are cast in doubt. Among the works in discussion are a drawing by Pablo Picasso signed as Henri Matisse, a coffee table executed by Martin Kippenberger using a painting by Gerhard Richter as its surface, and a performance by David Hammons documenting the artist urinating on a Richard Serra sculpture.
Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at Luxembourg + Co., London, Bad Manners raises questions concerning the nature of artistic authorship, standards of collegial etiquette, plagiarism and ownership.

About the Author

Jake Chapman is an artist and a writer famous for his iconoclastic sculptures, prints and installations. He has worked collaboratively with his brother Dinos for three decades; the Chapmans first received critical acclaim in 1991 for the diorama sculpture Disasters of War and since then have exhibited extensively in solo and group shows. In 2015, Jake directed The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, a film based on his first novel of the same title. The book was followed by Memoirs of My Writer’s Block, INTROSPASTIC: From the Blackened Beyond and, most recently, 2+2=5, a rectified version of George Orwell’s flawed masterpiece 1984.
Yuval Etgar is a curator and art historian who specialises in the history and theory of collage and image appropriation. He is the author of John Stezaker: At the Edge of Pictures (2020) and The Ends of Collage (2017). He is currently working on Phaidon’s first survey of collage in contemporary art, Vitamin C+, to be published in autumn 2023.