{"title":"Small books","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Glue book fair ICA\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"zoe-leonard-i-want-a-president-gato-negro-2017","title":"Zoe Leonard — I Want a President, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eRisograph-printed booklet, hand-sewn and perfect-bound wrappers, 10.5 × 8 cm, 32 pages. Good vintage condition: light handling wear, minor rubbing, and age-related marks to covers. Clean and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compact 2017 Mexican edition of Zoe Leonard’s now-iconic text \u003cem\u003eI Want a President\u003c\/em\u003e, originally written in 1992 during the AIDS crisis and circulated informally through photocopies, activist networks, and queer communities before achieving wider visibility decades later. This Gato Negro edition presents the manifesto one sentence at a time, transforming a widely reproduced text into a small, portable artist publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonard’s text occupies a unique position between poetry, political speech, queer history, and artists’ publishing. Written as a response to systems of exclusion and privilege, it gained renewed urgency during the 2016 U.S. election cycle when a monumental version was installed by High Line Art in New York, introducing the work to a new generation. Since then it has circulated internationally through translations, reprints, posters, performances, and artist-led editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis booklet belongs to Gato Negro’s series of miniature manifestos — small-format publications functioning somewhere between pamphlet, artist book, and political multiple. Its scale is modest, but its circulation history is expansive. The publication records how a text can move through photocopiers, activist collectives, public artworks, and independent presses while remaining fundamentally unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a contemporary context, publications such as this have become increasingly sought after as collectors shift attention from major catalogues toward smaller artist books, interviews, magazines, and printed matter that document how artists actually moved through the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA concise artist publication documenting one of the most widely circulated and enduring political texts to emerge from queer culture in the late twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53770295050578,"sku":"LEONARD-GATONEGRO-CAT-2017","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Leonard_Zoe._I_want_a_President_2017.jpg?v=1781650821"},{"product_id":"mladen-stilinovic-the-praise-of-laziness-gato-negro-2015","title":"Mladen Stilinović — The Praise of Laziness, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover booklet, 10.5 × 8 cm, 28 pages, text in English. Good vintage condition: light handling wear and minor signs of storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pocket-sized edition of Mladen Stilinović’s influential text \u003cem\u003eThe Praise of Laziness\u003c\/em\u003e, published in Mexico City by Gato Negro in 2015. First written in the aftermath of the Cold War, the manifesto reflects on the artist’s position between Eastern European socialism and Western capitalism, proposing laziness not as failure but as a form of resistance to productivity, efficiency, and cultural overproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the key figures of the former Yugoslav conceptual scene, Stilinović spent decades examining language, ideology, labour, money, and the structures that shape artistic value. \u003cem\u003eThe Praise of Laziness\u003c\/em\u003e has since become one of his most widely circulated texts, frequently cited by artists, curators, and writers as a concise critique of the contemporary demand for constant activity and visibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall in scale but substantial in influence, this edition belongs to the lineage of artist-led publishing that keeps conceptual texts in circulation long after their original moment. Less a book than a portable proposition, it remains one of the clearest statements of Stilinović’s practice and its enduring relevance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA manifesto reduced to booklet form. A critique of work reproduced as an object. A text that continues to circulate because its argument remains unresolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53770444570962,"sku":"STILINOVIC-GATONEGRO-CAT-2015","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Stilinovic_Mladen._The_praise_of_Laziness_5d0c955c-d93e-4391-991f-971242bcc521.jpg?v=1781651465"},{"product_id":"laylah-ali-types-contemporary-art-museum-st-louis-2004","title":"LAYLAH ALI — Types, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2004","description":"\u003cp\u003eOffset printing in black-and-white and colour; illustrated card wrappers; sewn binding. 11 × 14 cm. 36 pages. Published by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2004. ISBN 0-9712195-6-7.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in conjunction with \u003cem\u003eLaylah Ali: Paintings and Drawings\u003c\/em\u003e, held at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis from 3 December 2004 to 27 February 2005. Organised by curatorial assistant Andrea Green, the exhibition brought together rarely shown drawings and paintings on paper in two viewing rooms constructed specifically for their presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTypes\u003c\/em\u003e contains fourteen new drawings arranged as a largely wordless sequence. Individual figures appear against empty grounds: masked, bandaged, multiplied, enclosed by uniforms or protective structures. Some resemble athletes or combatants; others suggest prisoners, ceremonial performers or specimens awaiting classification. The title proposes a typology, but the figures continually escape any settled category.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAli’s controlled drawing style combines the directness of comics with references to folk art, diagrams and hieroglyphic forms. Beneath the apparent clarity of the images are unstable relations of authority, vulnerability and implied violence. Ali has described herself as being especially interested in what occurs before and after a violent act rather than in illustrating the act itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication appeared at an important moment in her practice. Ali had recently produced the artist’s book \u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c\/em\u003e for MoMA’s Projects 75 in 2002, participated in the 2003 Venice Biennale and appeared in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. \u003cem\u003eTypes\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to this concentrated period in which her small-scale figures moved between drawing, painting, institutional exhibition and printed sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book operates as more than a reduced record of the exhibition. Its compact scale converts the museum presentation into a handheld procession: one body, one page, one proposed category after another. The illustrated wrappers, black endpapers and alternating monochrome and coloured images give it the feeling of a field guide, dossier or incomplete system of identification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompleteness note: bibliographic records indicate that some copies were issued with a separate inserted exhibition brochure containing an interview between Andrea Green and Laylah Ali and an exhibition checklist. No separate insert is present in this copy; it is described as the book only.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good used condition. Noticeable rubbing, surface marking and light scratching to the predominantly black wrappers; edge and corner wear, minor creasing and handling consistent with age. Original retail barcode label remains attached to the rear cover. 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The sealed state remains part of the object’s appeal: unused, but not untouched by time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnopened copy of Shrigley’s small-format booklet, still in its original book wrap. Green printed cover with hand-lettered title, containing a sequence of deadpan drawings and short text fragments. The pocket scale is central to the object: closer to a note, joke multiple, or miniature artist book than a conventional publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShrigley’s work has long moved through drawings, postcards, books, posters, animations, and everyday printed forms. 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