{"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\/products\/catherine-holly-my-brother-ist-not-daniel-richter-my-father-ist-not-gehrhart","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}