{"product_id":"quinn-latimer-sarah-lucas-describe-this-distance-mousse-2013","title":"QUINN LATIMER \/ SARAH LUCAS, Describe This Distance, Mousse Publishing \/ Sadie Coles HQ, 2013","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuinn Latimer \/ Sarah Lucas — Describe This Distance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMousse Publishing \/ Sadie Coles HQ, 2013\u003cbr\u003e\nTNR-2026-0667\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12.5 × 18.5 cm\u003cbr\u003e\n96 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\nHardcover; cloth binding\u003cbr\u003e\nColour and black-and-white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\nEnglish\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN 978-88-6749-012-7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst volume in Air Mexico, the literary series initiated by Mousse and commissioned by kurimanzutto to reconsider the relationship between exhibitions and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDescribe This Distance\u003c\/em\u003e takes Sarah Lucas’s 2012 exhibition \u003cem\u003eNUDs\u003c\/em\u003e at Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli, Mexico City, as its point of departure. Lucas’s first presentation in Mexico placed her stuffed Lycra bodies, cigarettes, toilets, adobe bricks and anthropomorphic sculptures within Diego Rivera and Juan O’Gorman’s extraordinary museum for Rivera’s collection of pre-Hispanic objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuinn Latimer did not see it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting from Elba several months later, and before she had visited Mexico City, Latimer reconstructs the exhibition through four essays moving between Lucas’s sculpture and a much wider field of association: shame, passivity, fertility, palindromes, Antonin Artaud, Napoleon, Susan Sontag and Mary Wollstonecraft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting book occupies an unusual position between artist book, exhibition document, criticism and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn exhibition is removed from its site.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe writer is removed from the exhibition.\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription fills the distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs return Lucas’s bodies again as reproductions — stockings become sculpture, sculpture becomes photograph, photograph becomes page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA particularly compact publication in which documentation does not close the distance between viewer and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt preserves it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light shelf and handling wear to the orange front panel, including minor rubbing and slight edge\/corner wear; black cloth spine and rear board remain clean and strong. Internally clean and well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/the-new-rare-at-glue-book-fair-2026\"\u003eThe New Rare at Glue Book Fair 2026\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mousse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54696500592978,"sku":"TNR-2026-0667","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Lucas_Sarah.Latimer_Quinn.Describethisdistance.2013.jpg?v=1789198294","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/quinn-latimer-sarah-lucas-describe-this-distance-mousse-2013","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}