Formats
Anthologies
105
Audio
310
Catalogues
410
Clothing
23
Editions
31
Ephemera
68
Literary
38
Monographs
179
Posters
269
Video
39
Zines
142

Shop > Artists' Books

Out of Stock
#13452

The Empty Bed

Artist
Robert Dayton
Date
2017
Publisher
IMPULSE [b:]
Format
Artists' Books
ISBN
978-1-9888170-4-0
Size
14.7 × 17.5 × 1.2 cm
Length
150 pp
Genre
Arts Writing
Description

The Empty Bed is a darkly funny pen-and-ink heartbreak book, a self-pitying lonely odyssey taking place after romantic relationships end. It is playful and mystical with many one page jokes of heavy truths in a loose narrative flow. The book includes an interview with the author’s Mother on divorce and death, an excerpt from the secret files of ghost-hunter Dr. Fourteen, and The Death Wish Guide To Loss. All of it rendered in quill and brush where words and pictures mingle freely.

Robert’s work on the stage and studio has always been both side-splittingly hilarious and goddamned distressing; working in the book format he offers up an additional, unexpected outcome — pure beauty!
— Gregg Turkington, comedian

Robert Dayton is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Comedy? Sure! His writing and drawings have appeared in numerous publications, books, exhibits, etc. Robert has performed across North America and Australia. As The Canadian Romantic, he manifests as a series of videos, live performances, a doll, an art book and a winking photo to make people in Canada and everywhere feel more attractive. His collaborative musical performance and recording projects include song-and-dance duo Canned Hamm, July Fourth Toilet, and New Horizzzons.

  1. The Empty Bed
 

Related Items

  1. Félicia Atkinson: A book stands un-open, like a silent and neat empty bed
  2. Jaclyn Bruneau, Robert Dayton, Jacquelyn Ross, and Daniella Sanader: Young Adult // Issue No. 03
  3. Tom Sherman: Marshall Needles Mosquitoes
  4. A huge space, largely empty
  5. John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Give Peace A Chance: John Lennon & Yoko Ono
  6. Jonas Delaborde: Ffor#10 Empty Frames & Steinbach Armors
  7. Benjamin Phelan: Charge Clusters: The Basis of Zero-Point Energy Inventions
  8. POCKET BOOK Vol. 1
  9. Jeremy Laing: Bed of Nails
  10. Ryan Compton: Project 2
  11. Parkett # 67
  12. Simon Fuh: For Now You Had to Be There
  13. Franco Vaccari: L’eclisse dell’arte / The eclipse of art
  14. Rebekka Hilmer Heltoft: Drawn To The Pencil; Dark Light Glitter
  15. Il Piedistallo Vuoto / The Empty Pedestal
  16. Micah Lexier: Book Sculptures
  17. Susan Kordalewski: Every Word I Know
  18. Claudia Peña Salinas and Denise Schatz: Nur Du!
  19. Ed Ruscha: Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass
  20. John Currin, Laura Owens, Michael Raedecker, and Lou Reed: Parkett # 65
  21. Archiv Peter Piller Volume 8
  22. Susanne Kriemann: Ashes and Broken Brickwork of a Logical Theory
  23. Bernhard Cella: and . learning english has no use
  24. Provence Issue O
  25. Liz Lanner: Parkett # 28
  26. Sylvie Fleury: Parkett # 58
  27. Maurizio Cattelan: Parkett # 59
  28. Parkett # 71
  29. Parkett # 70
  30. Monica Bonvicini, Urs Fischer, and Richard Prince: Parkett # 72
  31. I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette
  32. Nathan Isberg: A Manifesto for Sincere Loss
  33. Erasure
  34. Ron Giii: Oxygen Theatre
  35. Slow Twisting
  36. Alexander Pilis: Sao Paulo
  37. Jennifer Liese: Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000-2015