Whitney Biennial 2004: Whitney Museum of American Art (Whitney Biennial)

12.1 x 11.9 x 2.3 Crisp Tight Clean copy ! In original shrinkwraps! 288 pages. This two-part catalogue consists of an 11¾"×11¾" book that includes essays by two of the biennial's three curators (and an introduction by all three), as well as terrific commissioned essays on recent aesthetics, juxtaposed with previously published works by writers and artists, illuminating the biennial's emergent themes of nostalgia, the American Gothic, pop sensory overload, gender identities and politics in (and as) art. The 108 artists get short bios with one illustration each. The second volume consists of a box filled with limited-edition commissioned works (some credited, most uncredited) by each artist, who were asked to work in one of several formats: the bumper stickers, postcards, filmstrips or mini-magazines are flip yet irresistible. 8024L