{"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","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/catherine-holly-academy-of-realness-fuck-book","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}