Adam Pendleton: As Heavy as Sculpture by Adam Pendleton - 9781636810270

Adam Pendleton: As Heavy as SculptureAuthor(s): Adam Pendleton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Distributed Art Publishers, United States\nImprint: Distributed Art Publishers\nISBN-13: 9781636810270, 978-1636810270\nSynopsis\nAn artist's book exploring the language of protest\n\nA new artist's book by Adam Pendleton (born 1984), As Heavy as Sculpture follows Pendleton's 2021 installation of the same title, exhibited at the New Museum in New York. The book collects, repeats and processes over 80 source collages, incorporating drawings, sketches, writing and marks, often in combination with images.\nMuch of the language in the collages is drawn from the protests against police brutality that swept the US in 2020: Pendleton has transcribed slogans sprayed on walls and windows, combining them with his own improvised language as well as photographs of art objects and artifacts (sculptures, masks and figures). The work points to the poetic pressure that uprisings place on language itself, com.