{"id":12823,"title":"Erasmus Is Late","dimensions":"18 x 11.5 cm, 88 p, language: English, publisher: Book Works, ISBN: 978 1 870699 17 4","date_begin":"1995-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/560","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"erasmus-is-late","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/027/732/large/ErasmusIsLateCover_0.jpg?1426966130","poster_credits":"Book Works","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--[if gte mso 9]\u003e\u003cxml\u003e\r\n \u003co:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n  \u003co:Version\u003e15.00\u003c/o:Version\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n \u003co:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n  \u003co:TargetScreenSize\u003e800x600\u003c/o:TargetScreenSize\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n\u003c/xml\u003e\u003c![endif]--\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe central character of \u003cem\u003eErasmus is Late\u003c/em\u003e is Erasmus Darwin, opium-eater and brother of the more famous Charles who is indeed late. Late for a dinner party that he himself is giving and whose illustrious guests, already assembled around his table, include: Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy; Masura Ibuka, co-founder of Sony; and Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst the guests wait, Erasmus dawdles through contemporary London becoming waylaid by different sites, which represent for Gillick, the development of free-thinking; Gillian Gillick, the artist\u0026rsquo;s mother, illustrates these sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to \u0026lsquo;unfree\u0026rsquo; thought and the working classes.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn one level a guide to contemporary London seen through the eyes of a Georgian, \u003cem\u003eErasmus is Late\u003c/em\u003e is also an examination of pre-Marxist positions, an ill-researched investigation of a Utopian optimism that is struggling to predict the future.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eErasmus is Late\u003c/em\u003e originated from Liam Gillick\u0026#39;s proposal to Book Works for the New Texts commission in 1994. The novel acted them as the fulcrum for a body of works that stemmed from it: \u003cem\u003eIbuka!\u003c/em\u003e (the production of a musical scenario that focuses on one of the key characters from the book \u003cem\u003eErasmus is Late\u003c/em\u003e); \u003cem\u003eMcNamara\u003c/em\u003e (a short cartoon film produced in London by a commercial animation company); an exhibition at Gallery Schipper \u0026amp; Krome, and so on.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.liamgillick.info/home/work/mcnamara-erasmus-whatif/erasmus-and-ibuka\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1860,"name":"Liam Gillick","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}