{"product_id":"max-guy-but-tell-me-is-it-a-civilized-country-9780941548892","title":"Max Guy: But Tell Me, Is It a Civilized Country?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Max Guy | Brit Barton | Matthew Goulish\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Renaissance Society at the University of Chic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Renaissance Society at the University of Chic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA catalog of an exhibition by contemporary artist Max Guy that uses \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e as a way to ask questions about society and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book accompanies Max Guy's exhibition \"But tell Me, is it a civilized country?,\" an installation of new works centered on \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This catalog features essays by artist and writer Brit Barton and the exhibition's curator, Michael Harrison, as well as a transcription of a conversation between Guy and artist and writer 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. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Renaissance Society at the University of Chic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47577564545175,"sku":"9780941548892","price":4180.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780941548892.webp?v=1774903784","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/max-guy-but-tell-me-is-it-a-civilized-country-9780941548892","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}