{"title":"Rosetta Brooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eRosetta Brooks was a British critic, editor, and curator whose work in the 1980s helped define the critical language through which image culture, appropriation, fashion, and postmodern theory were understood as a connected field. As editor of \u003cem\u003eZG Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e — one of the sharpest independent art and culture publications of the decade — she assembled a space where contemporary art, fiction, politics, and media criticism occupied the same printed surface without hierarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished from London and later New York between 1980 and 1985, \u003cem\u003eZG\u003c\/em\u003e moved between J.G. Ballard and Richard Prince, Jean Baudrillard and Nancy Dwyer, Gary Indiana and Peter Halley, treating the period’s image culture as something unstable, political, and highly constructed. Each issue was less a magazine than a temporary exhibition in paper form: a large printed support for the circulation of ideas that had not yet found institutional homes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe issues gathered here are primary documents of that project — objects that record the editorial intelligence through which 1980s art and theory entered circulation, and that remain among the most significant independent publications of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rosetta-brooks-zg-no-11-art-text-15-double-trouble-1984","title":"ROSETTA BROOKS (ed.) — ZG No. 11 \/ Art \u0026 Text 15: Double Trouble, ZG Magazine \/ Art \u0026 Text, New York \/ Melbourne, 1984","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeriodical, \u003cem\u003eZG No. 11 \/ Art \u0026amp; Text 15: Double Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e. Edited by Rosetta Brooks. ZG Magazine \/ Art \u0026amp; Text, New York \/ Melbourne, 1984. Large-format staple-bound periodical, 28 × 42 cm. Offset printed in black-and-white with yellow title band to ZG cover. Double-cover format: ZG No. 11, Summer ‘84 \/ Art \u0026amp; Text 15, Spring 1984.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions and features include Rosetta Brooks, Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, Jean Baudrillard, Juan Davila, Laurie Simmons, Mike Parr, Imants Tillers, John Hilliard, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strong surviving issue from the early 1980s intersection of art criticism, theory, photography, simulation, and media culture. ZG operated between London and New York, bringing together art, film, sexuality, fashion, politics, and popular culture through a magazine format that was closer to a temporary exhibition space than a conventional journal. This issue’s collaboration with Art \u0026amp; Text is especially relevant: a double publication on doubling, remaking, cloning, simulation, and image culture, with Laurie Simmons, Juan Davila, Peter Halley, and Baudrillard all sitting inside the same printed field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin The New Rare register, this is not just an old magazine but a distribution object: theory, artist pages, reproduced images, and editorial framing carried through paper. Its condition records that passage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Visible handling wear, creasing, rubbing, edge wear, small tears, and age toning. Spine and fold wear consistent with a large-format periodical of this age. 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Offset-printed, staple-bound, pictorial wrappers, black-and-white, 41.9 × 27.9 cm, 27 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Rosetta Brooks, Michael Smith, Jan Wandja, Silvia Kolbowski, Stuart Piggott, Krystina Kitsis, Rhys Chatham, Joseph Nechvatal, Peter Halley, Carlo McCormick, Holly Warburton, Paul Taylor, Adrian Martin, Dena Shottenkirk, Richard Flood, Jonathan Miles, and Robert Kleyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents include “Editorial: The New Fundamentalism,” “All Things Being Equal” by Silvia Kolbowski, “Advertising Death’s Space” by Rosetta Brooks, “Interview with Rhys Chatham \u0026amp; Joseph Nechvatal,” “The Frozen Land” by Peter Halley, “Disco Inferno” by Carlo McCormick, “Duchamp: Lower East Side” by Richard Flood, and “The Shadow Reflected” by Robert Kleyn. Back cover by Michael Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1984, ZG operated between art magazine, critical journal, image-bank, and alternative exhibition space. Under Rosetta Brooks’s editorship, it brought together artists, writers, musicians, and theorists working across post-punk culture, media critique, conceptual art, and politics. This issue, themed Religion, places belief, image culture, power, media, and spectacle into direct contact, with Reagan-era broadcast imagery on the cover and Michael Smith’s nuclear comic scenario on the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin The New Rare register, this is a strong period object: a large printed support for the circulation of 1980s art and theory. Not a catalogue and not simply a magazine, but a temporary exhibition space in paper form. Its scale, contributors, and survival make it a useful document of how art, media, and politics moved through print before digital circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light rubbing, handling wear, edge and spine wear, minor creasing and surface marks consistent with age and use. 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