David Batchelor

Since its launch in 1976, the influential journal of art history and criticism Octoberhas not had one image reproduced in color. Well-known contemporary Scottishartist and writer David Batchelor playfully rectifies this situation in the series ofdelightful, exuberant and colorful drawings (2012 13) that transform every pageof the magazine s first issue (Summer 1976). Disrupting October s orderly monochromaticuniverse and textual clarity, Batchelor engages a carnival-like play of form andcolor on each page in abstract compositions of circles, triangles and rectanglesof brilliant transparent color and opaque black planes. Batchelor, who works withfound objects and images in drawing, photography and installation, again appliesthe colors and dynamism of the modern city to this artist project. Reprinted herefor the first time in actual size, this book is a must-have for every art book collector.