Billy Apple®

This Source Book is published on the occasion of Billy Apple’s two-part exhibition at Witte de With: A History of the Brand andRevealed/Concealed.

Four writers have been invited to contribute: New Zealand art historian and curator Christina Barton offers an insightful chronology; the French critic Bénédicte Ramade situates Apple’s practice in the context of institutional critique; the value systems of the Billy Apple brand are discussed by William Wood, Vancouver-based critic and art historian; and the expatriate New Zealand artist and scholar Michelle Menzies considers Apple’s sense of duration and his enduring significance for younger generations.

Colophon
Number of copies: 1000, English
Chronology by Christina Barton; essays by Michelle Menzies, Bénédicte Ramade and William Wood
Edited with an introduction by Zoë Gray, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Monika Szewczyk
Format: paperback, 112 pages; 200 x 125 mm; 26 color images
Design: Kummer & Herrman, Utrecht
Publication date: 10 September 2009
Published by Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art
Printed in: The Netherlands
ISBN: 978-90-73362-89-5
Price: €10, $15, £9

Distribution
The book is available at Witte de With and via the following distributors:
D.A.P., New York (USA only), online catalogue:
www.artbook.com, e-mail dap@dapinc.com, phone +1 212 627 1999
Cornerhouse, Manchester (UK and Ireland only), online catalogue:www.cornerhouse.org, e-mail publications@cornerhouse.org, phone +44 1612001503
Idea Books, Amsterdam, (The Netherlands and all other countries) online catalogue www.ideabooks.nl,
e-mail: idea@ideabooks.nl, phone: +31 (0)20 6226154