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"Make us something about cats." This dictum, given to the artists and writers who participated in the 2003 Catholic exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul Gallery in New York, produced—beautiful, startling, thought-provoking, sweet, disturbing—results. According to editors/curators Jesse Pearson and Glynnis McDaris, "If they said 'cats are pretty,' that was fine. If they said 'cats are stupid,' that was fine too. This is Catholic in the spirit of its neglected definition: Having varied tastes. This isn't about eating fish on Fridays . . . .
The visual art in Catholic includes photographs by Roe Etheridge, Ryan McGinley, Colin DeLand, Richard Kern, Terence Koh, and Terry Richardson; drawings by artists Jim Drain, Sabrina Mansouri, Pieter Schoolwerth, and Spencer Sweeney; and projects from Le Tigre's JD Samson, Built-by-Wendy's Wendy Mullen, and United Bamboo. Cats also includes Steve Lafreniere's writing on his mother's cat photography, Amber Gayle on brushes with 300-pound mountain lions, Amy Kellner's diatribe on the "Hang in There, Baby" tradition, and a poem from Eileen Myles's pet, Avi.
There are people in this world whose love of cats reaches near-religious fervor. For those people, Catholic fills a market niche that magazines like Cat Fancy and Cat World never could, or maybe, never dared. —Patrik Ervell in V magazine
Catholic is cuddly and clever and purrs when you pet it. —Brittney Brown, Flaunt Magazine
Cat-holic is the kind of pun we'd hate ourselves for not using. —Jesse Pearson and Glynnis McDaris
Edited by Jesse Pearson and Glynnis McDaris.
Hardcover, 7.5 x 8.5 in./128 pgs / 80 color and 20 b&w.
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Curtis Robinson
reviewed Catholic: Cats, Expanded, Vol. 1 on August 12, 2009 Catholic: Cats, Expanded, Vol. 1
Excellent...informative, clear and incredible illustrations. A must for anyone interested in art or botany. Of course, I happen to be an admirer of Ferdinand Bauer, the finest natural science artist ever. Having tracked down copies of his work with the Flinders voyage to Australia, I now discover I should look at the book that made Bauer famous--Flora Graeca.
This history tells why Flora Graeca (flora of the mediterranean region) is considered the best Botanical Book of its kind. Not only was it important to science, it was beautiful due to no expense spared for the printing--620 pounds sterling in 1820. Only 30 copies were printed. The original author John Sibthorp, died before he saw even one volume of the 10 volumes in print.
Sibthorp comes out poorly in the story--egotistical, snobbish and cheap toward Bauer, who shines as the much abused artist. Sibthorp made two journeys and Bauer accompanied him only on the first. The Flora suffered as a result. Only Bauer's work is in the publication even though Sibthorp discovered many rare plants on his second, fatal journey. He died shortly after his return but left his fortune to continue the work.
After reading this, I MUST find a copy of the Flora Graeca. I vow to visit one of the places holding Bauer's original watercolors, which this book contains. You can see both the engravings from the books and Bauers originals side by side. What a treat.
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