NELSON, Mike. A Forgotten Kingdom. (London): Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2001.

NELSON, Mike.
A Forgotten Kingdom.
(London): Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2001.
 
12mo (196 × 128 mm), pp.249, [7]. 40 black-and-white plates with 52 photographs, edited by Will Bradley, design by Robert Johnson. Photo-illustrated perfect bound wrappers; light surface indentation to cover. Fine.
 
First edition, issued to coincide with Nelson's 2001 exhibition at London's ICA. A Forgotten Kingdom comprises facsimile pages from books by J. G. Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, William Burroughs, Albert Camus, Joseph Conrad, Philip K. Dick, Franz Kafka, Stanislaw Lem, H. P. Lovecraft, Ed Sanders, Jules Verne and several others.  With a central section of photographs showing views of Nelson's earlier labyrinthine installations.

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