The Collection of Jeff Khonsary
The books in the list below fall into several (overlapping) categories. Although there are points of intersection, I deliberately resisted the idea of developing a bibliography around a single concept or subject. Rather, they hint at the idiosyncrasies of my own book collection—which incorporates titles across a huge spectrum of publishing activity and purchased (and saved) for a variety of reasons. Taken in its entirety, my library has the type of inherent chaos that Walter Benjamin speaks to in his 1931 essay “Unpacking My Library”—one in which “habit has accommodated itself to such an extent that it can appear as order.”
No. 105
Swan on a Black Sea Geraldine Cummins
No. 106
Now, Barabbas William Jovanovich
No. 107
The Penguin Story
No. 108
The Rise and Fall of the Peanut Party Vincent Trasov
No. 109
Martha Wilson Sourcebook
No. 110
The Whole Earth Catalog
No. 82
The Arcades Project Walter Benjamin
No. 111
On the Self-Reflexive Page Louis Lühti
No. 112
On Photography Susan Sontag
No. 113
October: The First Decade
No. 114
Changing: Essays in Art Criticism Lucy Lippard
No. 115
October: The Second Decade
No. 116
De kunst van de revolutie Dugald Stermer, Susan Sontag
Biography
Jeff Khonsary is a writer and curator. He is also a founding Editor and art director of Fillip magazine, a Vancouver-based art magazine focusing on international contemporary art production and criticism.