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Celebrate Coach House's diamond anniversary with a limited edition t-shirt!

Celebrate Coach House's diamond anniversary with a limited edition t-shirt!

Celebrate Coach House's diamond anniversary with a limited edition t-shirt!

Between 1999 and 2024, Robert Fones completed a series of paintings using illusionistic bevelled forms. These paintings were inspired by a trip Fones took to Pompeii in 1995 where he saw frescoes of variously coloured blocks that appeared to have bevelled edges. Intrigued by how integrated these paintings were to the architectural spaces in which they existed, Fones began a series of small 10 inch square triptychs based on the only three possible configurations of a single pathway within a nine square grid. The trompe l’oeil bevelled form appeared to be cast as an architectural ornament even though the painted surface is completely flat. He called this series GSY Types, after the letterforms they most closely resembled. Returning to the bevelled paintings intermittently over the next 25 years, Fones created larger paintings, often based on realistic subject matter. All these paintings are included in this book, along with texts written by Fones that outline the background of each painting or series of paintings.

Special edition of The Xenotext: Book 2. It comes with a glass slide featuring a stained example of the genetically manipulated microbe D. radiodurans, which hosts a copy of ‘The Xenotext’ in its genome, and features an array of supplemental publications, including ephemera (such as chapbooks, pamphlets, and postcards) created by more than 20 artists and writers, all of whom have donated works to celebrate the completion of this project after 25 years of effort.

To celebrate the completion of The Xenotext (after 25 years of effort), Christian Bök has prepared a glass slide (in a limited edition of 90), featuring an unstained, denatured sample of D. radiodurans – the engineered, unkillable bacterium that hosts the two poems 'Orpheus' and 'Eurydice' in its genome, storing these poems forever.