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16/06/2008
Dylan’s new art show: #5 – London and Chemnitz catalogues compared
The London and Chemnitz catalogues for Bob Dylan – The Drawn Blank Exhibition are different.
The London catalogue, published last week by Halcyon Gallery, has reproductions of 300+ canvases – almost double the number in the Chemnitz book.
It has a couple of short essays, by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate (Official UK National Poet), well known as a Dylan fan, and by Andrew Graham-Dixon, the TV art critic and writer.
ISBN 978-0-9548455-8-2. Large format. £39.95 if you buy at the show; for other purchase options, please see the gallery’s web site.
www.halcyongallery.com
The Chemnitz catalogue was published in 2007 in five different editions – museum and trade (ie retail) versions, both in a choice of English- and German-language texts, and a special edition.
The English-language trade edition reproduces 170 of the Drawn Blank canvases, and has text/essays by Ingrid Mossinger (gallery curator who organised the show), Diana Widmaier Picasso, Frank Zollner and Jens Rosteck. Published by Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-3943-6, widely on sale in London at £35-40. It also – by coincidence - runs to 288pp, in a (slightly smaller) large format.
kunstsammlungen-chemnitz.justexpertise.de
prestel.de
So should you buy the Chemnitz or the London catalogue?
Buy both - if money’s a bit tight, just sacrifice the beer for week or so. The two catalogues are very fine additions to any Dylan book collection; and they probably won’t be around for too long.
Gerry Smith
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