{"title":"Catherine Holly","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatherine Holly is a pseudonymous identity operating within the broader authorial structure of The Academy of Realness and The New Rare Editions. Works produced under this name emerge from an earlier phase of dispersed identities and shifting authorial positions — artist publications, photocopied zines, and printed matter that circulate between image archive, provisional narrative, and low-resolution document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publications gathered here were produced through photocopy processes, staple binding, and appropriated image structures. Each operates as printed matter, artwork, and retained record. Authorship, function, and status remain open.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"catherine-holly-after-the-pressure-the-cock","title":"Catherine Holly \/ The Academy of Realness — After the Pressure the Cock","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist publication \/ photocopied zine\u003cbr\u003eThe Academy of Realness, New York, 2014\u003cbr\u003e15.5 × 12.5 cm\u003cbr\u003eStaple-bound paperback\u003cbr\u003e[38] pages\u003cbr\u003eBlack-and-white photocopy process\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 150\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: very good; light handling wear and minor softening to edges consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished under The Academy of Realness, a pseudonymous structure later folded into the wider trajectory of The New Rare Editions. Produced during an earlier phase of dispersed identities and shifting authorial positions, \u003cem\u003eAfter the Pressure the Cock\u003c\/em\u003e operates between artist publication, image archive, and provisional narrative sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication assembles appropriated images, handwritten interventions, film references, and fragmented visual material into a low-resolution photocopied structure resistant to stable reading. Marilyn Monroe appears alongside scratched gestures, interrupted captions, and displaced text fragments. Piero Gherardi’s costume design for \u003cem\u003eGiulietta degli Spiriti\u003c\/em\u003e enters less as citation than as material passing through another image economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title itself functions almost like a cut-up proposition: pressure, sexuality, absurdity, and image culture collapsing into a phrase that feels both declarative and unresolved. Produced through staple binding and photocopy processes, the publication retains the logic of an object intended for circulation rather than permanence while surviving as a retained record of an earlier authorial fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Academy of Realness","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514402234706,"sku":"CH-ATPTC-2014","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/After_The_Pressure_2015.jpg?v=1779317186"},{"product_id":"catherine-holly-academy-of-realness-fuck-book","title":"Catherine Holly \/ The Academy of Realness — Fuck Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist publication \/ facsimile journal\u003cbr\u003eThe Academy of Realness, New York \/ London, 2014\u003cbr\u003e40 pages including covers\u003cbr\u003eColour cover, black-and-white interiors\u003cbr\u003eOffset \/ photocopy-derived reproduction from altered found notebook material\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 25\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced from a discarded off-licence memo book acquired during an early visit to London, \u003cem\u003eFuck Book\u003c\/em\u003e operates somewhere between artist journal, punk zine, diary-object and conceptual facsimile. The original support — an ordinary British stationer’s memo pad — becomes a site of accumulation and interference. Price stickers, retail residue, medication labels, rubber-stamped cartoon imagery, and stencil typography are layered into a loose sequence of statements, repetitions and interruptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued under the overlapping identities of Catherine Holly and The Academy of Realness — with Rafael Melendez functioning simultaneously as author, editor, producer and displaced signatory — the publication treats authorship as unstable. The object shifts between pseudonym and attribution rather than settling into either one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication draws from self-published artist books, Xerox-era zine culture, mail-art logic and diaristic forms of conceptual publishing. Rather than presenting a coherent narrative, it accumulates fragments: slogans, administrative traces, found graphics and repeated gestures that move between private notebook and public statement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original notebook remains visible beneath the reproduction process. Retail labels survive. Found supports remain legible. A cheap object is temporarily repositioned as journal, artwork and printed artifact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Academy of Realness","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516010717522,"sku":"CH-FB-2014","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Fuck_Book_2014_001.jpg?v=1779344986"},{"product_id":"catherine-holly-my-brother-ist-not-daniel-richter-my-father-ist-not-gehrhart","title":"Catherine Holly \/ The Academy of Realness — My Brother Is Not Daniel Richter \/ My Father Is Not Gehrhart","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist publication \/ first edition\u003cbr\u003eThe Academy of Realness, New York, 2014\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 36–40 pages including covers\u003cbr\u003eColour cover, black-and-white interiors\u003cbr\u003eStaple-bound \/ photocopy and digital collage process\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced under the overlapping identities of Catherine Holly and The Academy of Realness, \u003cem\u003eMy Brother Is Not Daniel Richter \/ My Father Is Not Gehrhart\u003c\/em\u003e functions as a displaced family album assembled through the language of contemporary art, found imagery, and unstable authorship. The title itself begins as a denial — a statement of distance from inherited positions and cultural associations — while simultaneously establishing new fictive relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePages move through a stream of appropriated fragments: exhibition references, photographs of artists, photocopied reproductions, clipped texts, accidental pairings, retail residue, and detached captions. Figures appear without hierarchy. Daniel Richter, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jean Cocteau and anonymous source material coexist as equal image-events within a loose field of association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than operating as documentary evidence, the publication assembles a temporary structure of affiliations and misreadings. Names become stand-ins; images become relatives; cultural memory becomes reorganized through juxtaposition. The recurring use of stickers, Strand Bookstore price labels, transfers and photocopied residue leaves traces of acquisition and circulation visible rather than concealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication sits somewhere between artist book, image archive, zine, and conceptual scrapbook. Less concerned with narrative than with adjacency, it treats collecting itself as a compositional method — an early attempt to test how images, names and identities drift away from their original positions and acquire new relationships through editing and repetition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued before later iterations of The New Rare, the work already contains many of the structural concerns that would continue through subsequent publications: pseudonymous production, unstable authorship, found material, and the movement of printed matter from private record toward autonomous object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Academy of Realness","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516198019410,"sku":"CH-MBNDR-2014","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/My_Brother_ist_not_Daniel_Richter_My_Father_ist_Not_Gehrhart_000.jpg?v=1779346491"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/catherine-holly.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}