Mary Patten

Revolution As An Eternal Dream

The Exemplary Failure Of The Madame Binh Graphics Collective
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Revolution as an Eternal Dream: the Exemplary Failure of the Madame Binh Graphics Collective (MBGC) examines the political practice and visual propaganda of a now-obscure women’s poster, printmaking, and street art collective based in New York City between 1975 and 1983. For a brief, intense period of time, the MBGC collaborated on projects against racism and in solidarity with national liberation movements, producing many beautiful multicolored silkscreened prints, note cards, banners, posters, and other print ephemera before withdrawing into the isolation of a sectarian and militaristic political line. By 1982 its core members were in prison or underground. Revolution as an Eternal Dream calls up the perpetual desire for revolution, but also the frailty of such dreams. - Half Letter Press

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    • Holiday Gift Guide - Activism

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    • VP        Susanne Bürner        Books / Artists’ Books        $8.00
    • The Flood of Rights        Thomas Keenan, Tirdad Zolghadr and Suhail Malik        Books / Monographs        $46.00
    • Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert        Hamja Ahsan        Books / Monographs        $22.00
    • A Book About Colab (and Related Activities)        Max Schumann        Books / Monographs        $75.00
    • The Combahee River Collective Statement        Combahee River Collective        Books / Artists’ Writings        $15.00
    • Public Difference : Architecture Shame Photography        Dennis Adams        Books        $10.00
    • Communist Guide to New York City        Yevgeniy Fiks        Books / Artists’ Books        $15.00
    • Boots On the Ground [Sewn Version]        Louise Odes Neaderland        Books / Artists’ Books        $45.00
    • See Red Women’s Workshop : Feminist Posters 1974-1990        Prudence Stevenson, Jess Baines, Anne Robinson and Susan Mackie        Books / Monographs        $39.00
    • How to Start a Revolution: The Musical         Anna McCarthy        Books / Artists’ Books        $16.00
    • Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century                Books / Zines        $5.00
    • Revolution As An Eternal Dream        Mary Patten        Books / Monographs        $13.00
    • Counter-Signals 1 : Militant Print / A Form Oriented to Its Own Circulation        Jack Henrie Fisher        Books / Artists’ Books        $15.00
    • We Are Still Here        Devyn Galindo        Books / Artists’ Books        $40.00
    • Critical Spatial Practice 9 : Displacements, Architecture and Refugee : Andrew Herscher        Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen        Books / Monographs        $22.00
    • The Egyptian Postures        Ian Whittlesea        Books / Artists’ Books        $38.00
    • And Yet My Mask is Powerful        Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme        Books / Artists’ Books        $18.00
    • Mucus in My Pineal Gland        Juliana Huxtable        Books / Artists’ Writings        $23.00
    • Cliterary Journal        Phoebe Little        Periodicals / Artists’ Books        $20.00

    Hate, ignorance and blind greed have been occupying far too many places around the globe in 2017. For many artists, academics and thoughtful citizens of the world, the only response is to fight back. A gift guide may seem an odd place to take a stand but the truth in these projects demands that you pay attention.

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    1. Susanne Bürner
      VP
      Frankfurt and Paris, Germany and France: Revolver and Toastink Press, 2006
      1000
      Out of stock
    2. Yevgeniy Fiks
      Communist Guide to New York City
      New York, NY: common books, 2008
      500
      Out of stock
    3. Louise Odes Neaderland
      Boots On the Ground [Sewn Version]
      New York, NY: Bone Hollow Arts, 2016
      24
      $45.00
    4. Prudence Stevenson, Jess Baines, Anne Robinson and Susan Mackie
      See Red Women’s Workshop : Feminist Posters 1974-1990
      London, UK: Four Corners Books, 2017
      Out of stock
    5. Devyn Galindo
      We Are Still Here
      Los Angeles, CA: D. Galindo, 2017
      Out of stock
    6. Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen
      Critical Spatial Practice 9 : Displacements, Architecture and Refugee : Andrew Herscher
      Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2017
      Out of stock
    7. Ian Whittlesea
      The Egyptian Postures
      London, UK: The Everyday Press, 2017
      1000
      $38.00
    8. Thomas Keenan, Tirdad Zolghadr and Suhail Malik
      The Flood of Rights
      Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2017
      Out of stock
    9. Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
      And Yet My Mask is Powerful
      New York, NY: Printed Matter Inc., 2017
      1000
      $18.00
    10. Juliana Huxtable
      Mucus in My Pineal Gland
      New York, NY: Capricious and Wonder, 2017
      700
      Out of stock
    11. Anna McCarthy
      How to Start a Revolution: The Musical
      Zürich, Switzerland: Edition Taube, 2017
      $16.00
    12. Phoebe Little
      Cliterary Journal
      Lincoln, NE: P. Little, 2017
      350
      Out of stock
    13. Hamja Ahsan
      Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert
      London, UK: Book Works, 2017
      $22.00
    14. Max Schumann
      A Book About Colab (and Related Activities)
      New York, NY: Printed Matter Inc., February 2016
      Out of stock

    15. Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century
      New York, NY: 8-Ball Community, 2016
      Out of stock
    16. Mary Patten
      Revolution As An Eternal Dream
      Chicago, IL: Half Letter Press, 2011
      1353
      Out of stock
    17. Jack Henrie Fisher
      Counter-Signals 1 : Militant Print / A Form Oriented to Its Own Circulation
      Chicago, IL: Other Forms, 2016
      750
      Out of stock
    18. Combahee River Collective
      The Combahee River Collective Statement
      Mexico City, Mexico: Gato Negro, 2017
      Out of stock
    19. Dennis Adams
      Public Difference : Architecture Shame Photography
      New York, NY: Christine Burgin Gallery, 1989
      size unknown
      $10.00
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