Sargy Mann, Late Paintings

First edition of 500 copies.

ISBN 978-0955898044

£26 – FREE POSTAGE TO UK

£26 + £6 P&P (International)

Published by SP Books to accompany the exhibition ‘Sargy Mann, Late Paintings’ curated by Chantal Joffe at the Royal Drawing School, London, 2019.

The book features the essay ‘A Great Deal of Light’ by writer and critic Olivia Laing.

The exhibition ‘Sargy Mann, Late Paintings’ has been featured in Frieze , Elephant , Apollo and the RA magazine.

Sargy Mann; Probably the Best Blind Painter in Peckham (special edition)

By Sargy and Peter Mann

224 pages. Casebound in presentation box

Includes signed and numbered lithograph ‘Frances in the Corner Chair’ (edition of 100 made specially for this publication)

27.5 x 23 cm

ISBN-13: 978-0955898006

£250 + £2.80 P&P (UK)

£250 + £15 P&P (rest of the world)

Perceptual systems an inexhaustible reservoir of information and the importance of art

By Sargy Mann

32 page pamphlet

ISBN 978-0955898037

£4  FREE POSTAGE TO UK

£4  + £2 P&P (rest of the world)

Text by Sargy Mann edited by Peter Mann

“There is my developing experience as a painter going blind which is unusual and interesting and as you know I am interested in that. But I am equally interested, possibly more interested in a conception of what figurative art can be as a way of mining new experience and in some sense or other recording it so it’s communicable. Now essentially all my drafts are trying to put those two together and it seems at first like a paradox, but it’s a paradox that I think I can perfectly resolve… and it’s what I want to do… the third element which is very hard to separate from the other two, is the perceptual learning applied to the perceptual systems, made possible through consciousness… That does require an analysis to do with things to do with the anatomy of the eye and the brain, which most people haven’t got a clue about but which is absolutely crucial. “

Sargy Mann January 2015.

In the last months of his life Sargy Mann was working on a talk, which he was scheduled to give in London in May 2015.  In early 2015 he had two or three drafts, each with a very different emphasis and he was still coming up with new ideas. He died in April 2015. The talk was never finished but he had continued working on it or ideas that had come out of the process until the very end.

This publication is not a version of the talk Sargy would have given. It is an attempt to combine all of the ideas he had been working on, from the various versions that had been typed up, recorded onto his Dictaphone and also film footage of him working on the talk.

Peter Mann’s film of Sargy working on this talk and also the film he made about Sargy in 2005 can be seen here.

to see more of Sargy Mann’s work visit www.sargymannarchive.com

Euan Uglow / Sargy Mann

72 page, softcover gatefold

25 x 20 cm

ISBN 978-0956237798

Buy now – £20 FREE POSTAGE TO UK

Buy now – £20 + 7 P&P (Rest of the World)

The book contains four essays, ‘Sargy Mann, Euan Uglow and Subjective Realism; the Revolutionary Achievement of Modern British Painting’ by Robert Pepperell. ‘Beyond Appearance’ by Jo Volley. ‘Sargy Mann and Euan Uglow: Getting the Measure of Perception’ by George Mather, and ‘It starts with an Idea’ by Jenny Gleadell.

Each of the essays looks at how these two artists dedicated themselves to making work about direct perceptual experiences. Arriving at very different results but ultimately coming from a very similar desire.

‘When I first went to art school in 1960 I met remarkable painter teachers, notably Dick Lee, Euan Uglow and Frank Auerbach who said to me ‘we will not teach you how to paint, but we can teach you through the practice of painting and drawing to see more, to see better; if you look at the real world in front of you as intensely and as freely from visual preconceptions as you can and try to record as truthfully as you can what that experience is, you will in time see more, see better.’ Sargy Mann

The book has colour illustrations of every painting from the exhibition as well as a complete photographic record of the exhibition.

to see more of Sargy Mann’s work visit www.sargymannarchive.com

This book was not published by SP Books, It was designed by Chris Bedson Creative (one of the co founders of SP Books)  and is being distributed in part by us.

Troy

By Peter Mann

40 Page, casebound

Signed and numbered edition of 250.

£24 + £2 P&P (UK)

£24 + £4 P&P (rest of the world)

Troy is a sequence of 19 diptych’s featuring a woman, who by some measure was considered the most beautiful in the world at that moment and an image of war from the same period. The sequence builds to become a study of the evolving aesthetics in two of the most extensively covered subjects in the history of photography. All images found on the internet and photographed off the screen.

And Pray That All of Our Pain Be Champagne

By Peter Mann

64 page, lay flat binding

Signed and numbered edition of 120 copies.

ISBN 978-0955898020

£14.00 + £2  P&P (UK)

£14.00 + £3.50 P&P (Rest of World) 

And Pray That All of Our Pain Be Champagne is a celebration of vernacular advertising and a tragicomic look at the reality of branded luxury items away from the multi million dollar advertising campaigns normally used to sell them. The book is made up of photographs and copy used on ebay. Seen without the guile of the worlds top photographers and copywriters many of the things for sale seem absurd and often tinged with tragedy, especially in the current economic climate.

The Book was selected by Conor Donlon in “a selection of the most powerful published examples that use online image sourcing.” Alongside books by Mishka Henner, Doug Rickard, Michael Wolf and Joachim Schmid.

Amanda Knox Innocent and Guilty

By Peter Mann

24 page tabloid newspaper.

£3.50 + £1 P&P  (UK)

£3.50 + £3 P&P  (Rest of the world)

This publication is made up of 22 portraits of Amanda knox taken from mainstream media coverage of her trial between 2007 and 2015. The newspaper reads front to back and also back to front, each way around presenting a different sequence, one suggestive of guilt, the other innocence.

Review by Brad Feuerhelm in ASX.

Donovan Wylie One Day Taking Photographs in Belfast

By Peter Mann

36 pages, Soft back

Edition of 200 copies, each with a unique cover.

ISBN 978-0955898013

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Sargy Mann; Probably the Best Blind Painter in Peckham

By Sargy and Peter Mann

224 Page casebound

27.5 x 23 cm

ISBN 978-0955898006

OUT OF PRINT (Copies of the special edition are still available)

The book is based around twenty seven paintings chosen by the artist to represent different periods in his life as a painter. The first is from 1963 and the most recent is from 2007. The text is a 45,000 word piece by the artist. Each chapter takes one of the twenty seven paintings as its starting point, but the text as a whole builds to tell the story of how he has continued to paint about the world as he sees and experiences it, while his sight has deteriorated to the point of total blindness.

Each of the twenty seven paintings has been photographed by Peter Mann where they are hanging today. Throughout the book we are moving back and fourth between the artist at home or at work in his studio  and photographs of his work hanging in different peoples houses around the world, or in one case wrapped up in storage.

To see more of Sargy Mann’s work visit www.sargymannarchive.com