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(GARNER, PIPPA). Garner, Pippa, Fiona Alison Duncan Shola von Reinhold, Hayden Dunham, Dodie Bellamy, Glenn O’Brien, Ralph Rugoff & Maurin Dietrich. Berlin, GERMANY: Bierke Verlag, I00231114. 2023. First Edition. 13 x 9 3/4", 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. New. 312pp, 350 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in English and French. 978-3-948546-11-3

"Act Like You Know Me" is the first comprehensive monograph on innovative American artist Pippa Garner. Encompassing Garner’s most iconic works, from the Backwards Car to the Half-Suit, alongside never-before-seen photographs and ephemera, it surveys fifty years of her transdisciplinary art practice, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s, through photography, illustration, ephemera, and original writings. "Act Like You Know Me" supplements exclusive visuals and texts by Garner with archival press materials on the artist from such notable figures as Glenn O’Brien, Ralph Rugoff, and Hayden Dunham in addition to three new original commissions from contemporary, award-winning authors Shola von Reinhold, Dodie Bellamy, and Fiona Alison Duncan, and serves to introduce a highly-influential, under-recognized artist whose uncompromising approach to life and practice has allowed her to interact with the worlds of illustration, editorial, television, and art without ever becoming beholden to them.

Born in the suburbs of Chicago in 1942, the artist formerly known as Philip Garner has satirized American-style consumerism for decades, reifying the joys of everyday life and personal liberation along her way. With her prankish sense of humour and conceptual dedication to experimental engineering, she has altered materials of mass production - from Fordism through the pharmacopornographic era - subverting commercial binaries to reveal the transitory nature of material life and her own transpersonal identity.

A brand new example of this fascinating survey additionally SIGNED by the artist.

Inventory Number: E000PGALYKM