PUBLICATIONS

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DETROIT: STORIES
Lynn Crawford, Editor
Peter Markus and Michelle Perron, Guest Editors
Price: $14.00

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

“Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.” Vladimir Nabokov

Detroit: Stories, is the third issue of the journal published by Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), which first opened its doors in October, 2006. MOCAD expands contemporary cultural activity in the Detroit Metro area, and, equally important, places Detroit in a position to converse with the global community. Varied exhibitions and accompanying programming contribute to the museum’s success as a hub, attracting people, art, music, and dialogue into the space and the city.

The journal, Detroit:, conceived as an entity similar to an organized exhibition, is another expression of MOCAD; something we can export. To ensure we tap into varied artistic activity, we invite guest editors (also sometimes referred to as co-curators) to collaborate with me and MOCAD staff on each issue. (Click for details)

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

HOLY HIP-HOP!
NEW PAINTINGS BY ALEX MELAMID
Essay by Francine Prose
Introduction by Marsha Miro
Full-color reproductions of 12 paintings
soft cover, saddle-stitch
48 pages, 12 x 8.5"
Price: $20.00

Icons from the world of hip-hop music are the subject of the catalogue for this extraordinary exhibition of portraits by Russian-born American painter Alexander Melamid, the outspoken artist who once had his work dismantled and bulldozed by the Soviet government. Holy Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit from February 8 through April 20, 2008. Holy Hip-Hop! marks the first-ever solo show for Melamid, who is world-famous for his collaborative partnership with fellow Russian-born artist Vitaly Komar.

When you buy this catalogue you will also receive the 24-page addendum, Expressions from the Hip-Hop Community, with essays by Detroit activists jessica Care moore, Khalid el-Hakim, and Detroit Summer representatives Invicible and Jenny Lee.

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EXPRESSIONS FROM THE HIP-HOP COMMUNITY
Writing by
jessica Care moore
Khalid el-Hakim
Invincible & Jenny Lee/Detroit Summer
soft cover, saddle-stitch
24 pages, 11 x 7.5"
Price: $5.00

Melamid's choice of content for the series of paintings in Holy Hip-Hop! reflects a rare opportunity for the dialogue of contemporary visual arts to share the stage with musical recording artists. In pursuit of this investigation, MOCAD invited important members of the Detroit arts and activist community to expand in free-form some of the more intimate observations of the hip hop community: Khalid el Hakim, jessica Care moore, and Invincible. The result is the addendum to the exhibition catalog that includes, respectively, an essay, a poem and a spoken word lyric.

Whereas for Melamid, as Francine Prose points out in her essay for the catalog, "these new paintings are clearly the product of a long fascination with the permutations and conjunctions of art and power, spirituality and commodification," for these three artists/activists, their direct contact and experience within the hip hop community provide a story different than the one the media often constructs. The power of these expressions clearly conveys a sense of the dense layers of culture and politics this hugely influential movement has created in its wake.

This publications is included with the purchase of the catalogue Holy Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid or it can be purchased individually.

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DETROIT: TELEGRAPH
Lynn Crawford, Ed.
Hartmut Austen, Guest Editor
Issue 2
soft cover, limp-bound
10 x 7"
Price: $10.00

MOCAD is proud to announce the publication of our journal, Detroit: Telegraph. This issue, our second, is co-edited by Lynn Crawford and Hartmut Austen. Artwork includes: Telegraph Collective, Jim Shaw, Matthew Blake, Deb King, Lynne Avadenka, Anna Schutte, and Thomas Rapai. Interviews with Mike Kelly and Matthew Higgs. Prose and poetry by Andrei Cordrescu, Francis McKee, Tyrone Williams, Rebecca Brown, Dick Goody, and Ben Hernandez.

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MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY
Mark Bradford, Christopher Fachini, Barry McGee, Roxy Paine, Paul Pfeiffer, Jonathan Pylypchuk, Tabaimo, Kara Walker, and Nari Ward. Curator: Klaus Kertess
soft cover, limp-bound
80 pages, 11 x 8"
With compact disc of music by Christopher Fachini
Price: $35.00

Excerpt from curator's essay: "The title of this exhibition, Meditations in an Emergency, has been appropriated from a poem written by Frank O'Hara in 1957 - when the post atomic era and the growing power of the mass media had not yet anaesthetized more tender emotions. "All I want is boundless love," O'Hara could write, as he wrapped his narcissism in just enough irony and lyric improvisation to make it necessary to many a reader's life. The Emergency that this exhibition's title alludes to bristles with more public turbulence..." (Continue reading)

DETROIT: IMAGINARY CITIES
Lynn Crawford, Ed.
Gina Reichert and Danielle Aubert, Guest Editors
Spring 2007
soft cover, limp-bound
192 pages, 9 x 6"
Price: $10.00

Excerpt from Lynn Crawford's introduction: Detroit: Imaginary Cities launches the first issue of Detroit:, published by Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). With it, we express a heartfelt tribute to cities, real and invented, and ways to navigate them. (Continue reading)

DETROIT, I.E. INFRASTRUCTURE
Mitch Cope and Lynn Crawford, Eds.
Spring 2006
soft cover, staple-bound
80 pages, 9 x 6"
Price: $10.00  sold out

Detroit, i.e. is the result of a collaboration between Detroit area artists, writers, architects and designers. Read more...