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Max Guy: But tell me, is it a civilized country?

Artist
Max Guy
Writers
Michael Harrison, Irena Haiduk, Brit Barton, and Matthew Goulish
Date
2024
Publisher
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Format
Catalogues
ISBN
9780941548892
Genre
Black Art & Artists, Film & Cinema, Essays, Architecture
Description

Essays by Brit Barton, Matthew Goulish, and Michael Harrison
Transcript of conversation between Max Guy and Irena Haiduk

This book accompanies Max Guy’s exhibition “But tell me, is it a civilized country?”, an installation of new works centered on The Wizard of Oz. The title is drawn from a conversation between the Witch of the North and Dorothy in which the Witch defines “civilized” as not including magic.

Anchored in Chicago—where L. Frank Baum’s novel was written and first published, and home to enduring monuments to Oz fandom—the exhibition and book bridge the parallel universes of the Emerald City and its birthplace, drawing out the traces each carries of the other. A number of latent currents course underneath the work: critical perspectives on modernist urbanism, the peculiar products of fan culture, and the transformative power of storytelling and other acts of world-making.

This catalog features essays by artists and writers Brit Barton and Matthew Goulish, and the exhibition’s curator, Michael Harrison, as well as the transcription of a conversation between Guy and artist Irena Haiduk. The book will also include a new artist project made specifically for the book in the form of an annotated bibliography created by Guy of writings and images that relate to and inspire his practice.

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