Rodney Graham
The System of Landor’s Cottage. A Pendant to Poe’s Last Story (2nd edition)
Gevaert editions
2012
Artist book
Softcover, 328 p., 2 ill.
19 × 12.7 cm
English
Edition of 600 copies
Printed in offset by Cultura, Wetteren
Second edition of the same title first published in 1987. With a preface by Rodney Graham and in appendix essays by Jamie Hilder and Robert Linsley. The cover is printed in 4 distinct colors to form 4 sets of books numbered from 1 to 150.
The System of Landor’s Cottage (1987) is an expansion of the short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1849. The original text was only ten pages long; Rodney Graham added nearly 300, interweaving the stories with one another in the manner of Raymond Roussel in Nouvelles impressions d’Afrique (1932). The cottage becomes, both literally and figuratively, an imaginary architecture that houses the pataphysical narrative. Rodney Graham often uses repetition, loops and quotations to challenge the legitimacy of the concept of authorship and narrative structures.
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