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BOOK LAUNCH, PERFORMANCE, AND INSTALLATION
Gareth Long and Derek Sullivan
The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas
Friday, December 11th, 5-7PM

Gareth Long and Derek Sullivan present the seventh iteration of Long’s Bouvard and Pécuchet’s Invented Desk for Copying, a desk-sculpture pulled from the unfinished pages of Gustave Flaubert’s incomplete last novel, where Long and Sullivan work on their on-going project to illustrate (and translate) Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas. The two artists intend eventually to illustrate every entry in Flaubert’s posthumously published satirical dictionary – a text that contains 950 biting and surprisingly contemporary entries. They have compiled their collected illustrations to date in a new bookwork, The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas.

This is the eighth of Long and Sullivan's illustrating sessions to date, which have included public drawing sessions at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, Mercer Union and Jessica Bradley Art + Projects in Toronto, and PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens.

The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas (Galley-Volume 1: ABC) includes over 100 drawings in 228 pages. The artists will update the book as the project progresses using on-demand printing technology. This version of the first volume has been printed in an edition of only 25 and sells for a modest $30. A revised and expanded volume will be released in January. The publication may be purchased in store, by phone or online here.

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

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