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David Batchelor: The October Colouring-in Book
Since its launch in 1976, the influential journal of art history and criticism October
has not had one image reproduced in color. Well-known contemporary Scottish
artist and writer David Batchelor playfully rectifies this situation in the series of
delightful, exuberant and colorful drawings (2012 13) that transform every page
of the magazine s first issue (Summer 1976). Disrupting October s orderly monochromatic
universe and textual clarity, Batchelor engages a carnival-like play of form and
color on each page in abstract compositions of circles, triangles and rectangles
of brilliant transparent color and opaque black planes. Batchelor, who works with
found objects and images in drawing, photography and installation, again applies
the colors and dynamism of the modern city to this artist project. Reprinted here
for the first time in actual size, this book is a must-have for every art book collector.
has not had one image reproduced in color. Well-known contemporary Scottish
artist and writer David Batchelor playfully rectifies this situation in the series of
delightful, exuberant and colorful drawings (2012 13) that transform every page
of the magazine s first issue (Summer 1976). Disrupting October s orderly monochromatic
universe and textual clarity, Batchelor engages a carnival-like play of form and
color on each page in abstract compositions of circles, triangles and rectangles
of brilliant transparent color and opaque black planes. Batchelor, who works with
found objects and images in drawing, photography and installation, again applies
the colors and dynamism of the modern city to this artist project. Reprinted here
for the first time in actual size, this book is a must-have for every art book collector.
122 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2015
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