Richard McGuire
Subtitle: Art For The Street New York 1978-1982
By: Richard McGuire ; Alden Projects, New York
Contributors: Alden, Todd; Sante, Luc; Alden Projects (N.Y.)
Publisher: Alden Projects
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Exhibitions; Street art; Stickers; Art stickers; Collage; Graffiti; Music; Posters
Description: The book documents in rich illustrations the street collages, band posters, and record ephemera McGuire made during this period, including exhibition checklists and black-and-white photographs of his wheat pasted drawings installed across the city. One such photograph shows a black silhouette against a wall filled with advertisements, like a shadow in a doorway. The figure stands out against the chaos, framed in a rectangle of negative space, with the text "FASTER AND MORE WILDLY" around the edges in scratchy letters. In another photograph the figure appears again, this time larger and enclosed by the words "THINGS ARE BOOMERANGING." The figure is Ixnae Nix, created by McGuire in the late 1970s, and these are just some of the texts associated with more than seventy-five such drawings. Luc Sante, who wrote the introduction to Sequential Drawings, suggests in the catalogue's forward that, "Taken together, the Ixnae Nix drawings might represent something like a subjective diary, one that passersby can identify with."--Brooklynrail.org.
Notes: This book was published by Alden Projects on the occassion of the exhibition: Richard McGuire: Art for the Street New York 1978-1982 at Alden Projects, New York (September 27-November 4, 2018). The exhibition was organized by Todd Alden in Collaboration with Richard McGuire.

"This book was printed in a softcover edition of 1000. This book was also printed in a deluxe hardcover edition of 100 signed, and numbered examples containing a unique painted and drawn work by Richard McGuire."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No.4.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Luc Sante; title: Todd Alden in conversation with Richard McGuire; title: Liquid Posters; title: IXNAE NIX WORKS.