Jim Shaw: Paperback Covers Anthony d’Offay Gallery a more classical typeface than

a more classical typeface than his conspicuously plain Boy Scout Utility Modern

while nominally abstract

Filtered through photographic and other origins

This deliberately confounding memory game was released on the occasion of the exhibition Carsten Höller and Attilio Maranzano: Memory at GunGallery

an exhibition of three major late paintings by the artist: Study from the Human Body—Figure in Movement (1982)

Jim Shaw: Paperback Covers Anthony d’Offay Gallery a more classical typeface thanSince the 1970s, Jim Shaw has used his multimedia practice as a means of exploring the dreams and conflicted realities of American culture, finding inspiration in comic books, pulp novels, rock albums, protest posters, and thrift store paintings. This publication focuses on Shaws Paperback Covers (19962013), a series of works that ape the appearance of cheap paperback book covers in terms of both size and style and reference the tradition of Anglo