Tuxedo Junction, 1960

Tuxedo Junction, 1960 (2010) was published retrospectively in relation to the solo show ‘Gerard Byrne’ (2010) at Lismore Castle. Comprising new and existing video and photographic works, including the first exhibition of A Thing is a Hole in a Thing it is Not, a work with the Minimalists and their critics as its central focus, and in which several key events or accounts of Minimalist art history are reenacted. The book comprises installation views; reference material and documentation including archival exhibition views of Minimalist works; photographs of practitioners; typographic treatments of seminal Minimalist artwork titles; restaged photographs of photographs from in the exhibition; and a facsimile reproduction of Alexander Potts essay ‘The Minimalist Object and the Photographic Image’. A newly commissioned essay and an interview between the artist and the exhibition curator are presented as photographic depictions of typewritten documents. The dustjacket presents in miniature a facsimile of the Michael Fried essay ‘Art and Objecthood’, first published in Artforum.