{"title":"George Condo","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Condo (born 1957, Concord, New Hampshire) is an American painter whose work occupies a singular position between the history of European painting and the vernacular of American popular culture. Condo studied music before turning to painting in the early 1980s, and his practice has since developed a vocabulary of distorted, hybridised figures — part Old Master portrait, part cartoon, part psychological projection — rendered with a technical facility that makes the grotesque appear entirely at home within the conventions of Western art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondo coined the term ‘artificial realism’ to describe a mode of painting that combines the stylistic registers of different historical periods and genres within a single canvas: a Velázquez pose inhabited by a Looney Tunes face; a Cubist fragmentation applied to a society portrait. The work is simultaneously learned and absurdist, and its comedy is inseparable from its unease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondo has exhibited internationally with Hauser \u0026amp; Wirth and Simon Lee Gallery, and his collaborations extend across literature and music — most notably his illustrated edition of William S. Burroughs’s \u003cem\u003eGhost of Chance\u003c\/em\u003e (1991), published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Publications produced in connection with his practice — catalogues, artist books, and printed matter — document a body of work that has grown steadily in institutional and critical standing over four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ghost-of-chance-burroughs-condo-whitney-museum-1991","title":"GHOST OF CHANCE. William S. Burroughs \/ George Condo. Whitney Museum, 1991","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991. Prospectus for the eighth publication in the Artists and Writers Series. Four-page folded pamphlet with separate original order form. Offset-printed text with black-and-white reproduction after George Condo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Scattered foxing, surface marks and handling creases throughout, with diagonal creasing and wear at the upper corners. The separate order form has light toning, foxing and a small dark mark. Both elements remain complete and unsent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGhost of Chance\u003c\/em\u003e first appeared in this edition of 160 copies, signed by William S. Burroughs and George Condo. The book combined Burroughs’s previously unpublished novella with three soft-ground etchings, pictorial initials and tipped-in reproductions of Condo’s paintings. Published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum, it entered the collections of institutions including MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prospectus records the full production of the book: organised by May Castleberry, designed by Leslie Miller, with Condo’s etchings proofed alongside Aldo Crommelynck in Paris, the text set in Monotype Walbaum and printed at the Grenfell Press, and the finished edition hand-bound and slipcased by Claudia Cohen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe accompanying order form preserves the original terms of distribution. Each copy was offered through the Whitney Museum Library for $1,800, with New York sales tax calculated at $148.50, domestic UPS shipping at $15 and overseas registered mail at $30. Before the finished book entered museum and private collections, the collaboration circulated in this smaller form: image, production record, price, shipping instructions and a blank space for the purchaser’s name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Whitney Museum of American Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53986509390162,"sku":"BURROUGHS-WHITNEY-PC-1991","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Burroughs_William._Ghost_of_Chance_illustrated_by_George_Condo._1991_invite.jpg?v=1783903289"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/george-condo.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}