[Various artists]
Rock My World: Recent Art and the Memory of Rock 'n' Roll
San Francisco, USA: CCAC, 2002
95 pp., 5" x 7", hardcover
Edition size unknown
A small catalogue for an exhibition held from March 23rd to May 11th, 2002, at the CCAC, surveying new art that draws on rock music as a critical reference point. The catalog includes three essays: "Untimely Meditations" by Ralph Rugoff, "Time Out of Mind: Video Art, Romanticism, and Radical Nostalgia" by Ann Powers, and "Mutations: Some Thoughts on the Work of Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed, and Margaret Thatcher" by Matthew Higgs (the curator at the CCAC Wattis Institute at the time).
Artworks featured include: The Collected Live Recordings of Bob Dylan by Mungo Thomson; Martin Creed's Work No.97; The Uses of Literacy and Keith Moon: a Retrospective by Jeremy Deller; Even Holloway's Left-Handed Guitarist; Sam Durant's Proposal for Monument at Altamont Raceway; Guitar Drag by Christian Marclay; Dario Robleto's I heart everthing Rock 'N' Roll (Except the Music); and
Fans, Blondie LIVE! Toronto 1983 by Marina Rosenfeld.
Additional works by Jessica Bronson, Rodney Graham, Erik Parker, Steven Shearer, and Frances Stark.
The title can still be found for $15 US, from the publisher, here.
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