TO LIVE WITH GREAT BEAUTY:
THE JULIA AND PETER ARCHER COLLECTION

FALL 2025 RELEASE. This book is the latest project exploring the philosophy of finance. on one hand It is a catalogue of past art exhibition and on another, it is a fictional auction catalogue for an auction that never occurred.

The past exhibition that is fully documented within consisted of CIPHERS: paintings AND SCULPTURES based on previously auctioned WORKS. ThIS SELECTION OF CIPHERS was presented in the form of a full scale auction house preview exhibition. SEE PAGE

 

the publication engages from within the STORIED GRAPHIC DESIGN genre of the auction catalogue, playing with its codes oF value productioN. “THE GENRE IS SURELY SOME SORT OF apex of the sublime of DESIRE WITHIN material culture” - Rene Glete.

Designed and created by Brian Block.
Published by the artist’s Ideas and Apparatus press in 2025, New York, NY. 89 pages. 11" x 8.5" (28 x 21.5 cm). Perfect binding matte. Offset printed. B&W.