The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan
Drawing Session/Performance - Smack Mellon, June 2009.
2009-ongoing
Gareth Long and Derek Sullivan are continuing their on-going project to illustrate and translate Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas. Seated at an iteration of Long’s Bouvard and Pécuchet’s Invented Desk For Copying, a series of desk-sculptures pulled from the unfinished pages of Gustave Flaubert’s incomplete last novel, the two artists intend eventually to illustrate every entry in Flaubert’s posthumously published satirical dictionary – a text that contains 950 biting and surprisingly contemporary entries. They compile their collected illustrations in an on-going series of bookworks, designed by Mike Gallagher, titled The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas.
Long and Sullivan have worked on the Dictionary through more than 18 illustrating sessions to date, which have included public drawing sessions at Printed Matter, MoMA PS1, Smack Mellon, Kate Werble Gallery, and the Bloomberg Building in New York; Mercer Union, Art Metropole, the AGYU, Oakvile Galleries and Jessica Bradley Art + Projects in Toronto; READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver; The Musée juste pour rire in Montreal; Flat Time House in London, England; and Shandy Hall in Coxwold, England.
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan - The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas
2009
Book, 228 pages
11" x 8.5"
Edition of 25
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan - The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas - Galley #2
2009
Book, 228 pages
11" x 8.5"
Edition of 25
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The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan
Drawing Session/Performance - Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, November 2009.
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan - The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas - Galley #3
2010
Book, 228 pages
11" x 8.5"
Edition of 25
To purchase this galley version of The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas click here.
The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan
Drawing Session/Performance - Shandy Hall, September 2010.
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan - The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas - Galley #4
2010
Book, 292 pages
11" x 8.5"
Edition of 25
To purchase this galley version of The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas click here.
The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan
Drawing Session/Performance - Artexte at the Musée juste pour rire, October 2010.
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan - The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas - Galley #5
2010
Book, 404 pages
11" x 8.5"
Edition of 150
This edition published by Artexte.
To purchase this galley version of The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas click here.
The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan
Drawing Session/Performance
Wiels, Brussels, April, 2011.
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan - The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas - Galley #6
2010
Book, 584 pages
11" x 8.5"
Edition of 30
The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan
Drawing Session/Performance - Southern Alberta Art Gallery, November, 2011.
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan - The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas - Sample Spread
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan - The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas - Sample Spread
Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan - The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas - Sample Spread
The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas - Proposed Dust Jacket Drawing
2009
19.25" (folded) x 8"
Pencil/coloured pencil on paper