Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Rock My World: Recent Art and the Memory of Rock 'n' Roll





[Group exhibition catalogue]
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


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).

The featured artists include Jessica Bronson, Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Sam Durant, Rodney Graham, Evan Holloway, Christian Marclay, Erik Parker, Dario Robleto, Marina Rosenfeld, Steven Shearer, Frances Stark and Mungo Thomson.

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