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An exquisitely designed special edition volume dedicated to Eisenman's absurdist sculptural ensemble Produced in a limited print run of 500 copies, this special edition conceived in close collaboration with the artist features a silkscreened linen jacket with a tipped-on image inside the flap. Each copy is numbered and has a line of acrylic "muck" hand-piped onto its spine. At the center of New York-based artist Nicole Eisenman's (born 1965) sculpture Maker's Muck, an outsize plaster figure sits hunched over a potter's wheel, on which a mound of ersatz clay interminably spins. The floor teems with sculptures. Some of the pieces are fully rendered and recognizable: a dog, a ketchup bottle. Eisenman has invited several authors to follow the trajectories of Maker's Muck and its many objects in essays, metafictional reflections and other experiments in interpretation. Authors include: hannah baer, Hannah Black, Caren Beilin, Durga Chew-Bose, Cyrus Dunham, Sheila Heti, Alhena Katsof, Shiv Kotecha, Matt Longabucco, Sam McKinniss, Ryan McNamara, Tess Pollok, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Sam Roeck, Jasmine Sanders, Lynne Tillman, Janique Vigier.