September 9, 2021
6 x 9 | 196 pages Gary Shipley’s On the Verge of Nothing moves according to a patient logic, asking us to consider what follows when we begin from pessimism, rather than arriving at it. Through Shipley’s ciphers – Nietzsche, Pessoa, Lispector, contemporary performance art – pessimism is illuminated as at once unliveable and unconsolable, and yet unavoidable. Reading On
September 3, 2021
9 x 11.25 | 330 pages | Profusely photo-illustrated | Full-color | Hardcover Note: Copies ordered prior to the release date will be autographed by Lionel Maunz and Peter Sotos. Possessed by a galvanic intensity rarely encountered in contemporary art, the work of Lionel Maunz is exhibited in discursive arrangement with Peter Sotos’ thematically expansive
Gary J. Shipley; Foreword by Scott Wilson
Artwork by Lionel Maunz; Text by Peter Sotos