Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. Art. Stephen Lapthisophon brings his skills as an installation artist to the page with six essays written over the last 20 years. For fans of both continental philosophy and modern poetry and prose, Lapthisophon shows how writing about writing, art, and cinema can dissolve into its subject, becoming all of those things or none of them. With an introduction by Devin King. Printed in an edition of 250.

Author City: DALLAS, TX USA

Stephen Lapthisophon is a multimedia artist and writer whose work addresses questions of language, history and cultural memory. Recent projects include exhibitions in Berlin at Zagreus Projekt and in Barcelona at El Escaparate. Lapthisophon also presented "Quotation as Gesture" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2009 and is represented at Conduit Gallery in Dallas Texas. His work has been seen at Artists Space in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and in Chicago at Gallery 312, N.A.M.E. and Randolph Street galleries. Lapthisophon is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Upcoming in early 2011 there will be solo exhibitions at Conduit Gallery and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, of which his book WRITING ART CINEMA 1988-2010 is a part. He teaches at The University of Texas at Arlington.

Reviews and Other Links
Barbara E. Ladner @ MAKE