{"product_id":"rafael-melendez-after-sturtevant","title":"Rafael Melendez — After Sturtevant","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist publication \/ pamphlet\u003cbr\u003eThe Academy of Realness, 2022\u003cbr\u003eReleased for SWAB Art Fair, Barcelona, October 2022\u003cbr\u003e16 pages\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on folded paper stock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: very good; light handling wear consistent with production and storage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 16-page artist pamphlet produced by Rafael Melendez under the pseudonym The Academy of Realness. Released for SWAB Barcelona in 2022, \u003cem\u003eAfter Sturtevant\u003c\/em\u003e gathers images, quotations and short texts around linguistics, idealism, repetition, difference and ownership in a postmodern context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication moves through Elaine Sturtevant, Jean Baudrillard, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Richard Prince, Maurizio Cattelan, Blinky Palermo, Warhol and Cady Noland, treating repetition not as copying but as a method of displacement. Its design uses blue monospaced typography, white space, documentation images, exhibition-poster reconstructions and art-historical fragments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pamphlet operates as a portable theory-object: a folded support where authorship remains temporarily unstable and where the artwork survives as image, citation and repeated passage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Academy of Realness","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514375561554,"sku":"RM-AS-2022","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/After_Sturtevant_Pamphlet_2023.jpg?v=1779314949","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/rafael-melendez-after-sturtevant","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}