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Pizza Corpse

Book Launch

Thursday, July 17, 2008, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Printed Matter, Inc. is pleased to announce a launch for Pizza Corpse, a compilation assembled by Yale School of Art recent graduates and graduate students. The launch will take place on Thursday, July 17 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM. Printed Matter is located at 195 10th Avenue (between 21 and 22nd Streets) in New York City.

Pizza Corpse is an exquisite framing of the artist''s nostalgia, social and cultural associations; interest in the grotesque, hygiene and self-image, corporal perturbations, and any other greasy subject related to these concerns in and out of the box. All of the featured artists are Yale School of Art graduate students or recent graduates, who grinningly pulled the book''s topic out of a hat. This strategy not only introduced a re-examination of Fluxus terms for the compilation, but it also served as a method to display contemporary alterations of Internet-accessible imagery. You will find this book to be a humorous browse or an earnest sit down; the responses in the book are as varied as the toppings on a pizza.

Artists featured include Julian Bittiner, Eoin Burke, Ian Campbell, Matthew Capezzuto, Boris Chesakov, Meredith James, Laura Marsh, Jacques Louis Vidal and Ryan Wolfe.

Pizza Corpse is printed in full color and is 36 pages (the compilation also comes with a black and white zine insert). Pizza Corpse retails for $15 and can be purchased at Printed Matter’s storefront, or online at www.printedmatter.org.

For additional information, please contact AA Bronson at aabronson @ printedmatter.org

Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists'' books and other artists'' publications.

Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Altria Group Inc, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Gesso Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and individuals worldwide.