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"Melvin Charney is an artist and architect from Montreal whose site-related installations, drawings, collages, and texts have raised questions and stimulated discussion on such topics as the nature of the city and the connections between the built environment and the world of ideas. This richly illustrated book documents a body of work that has previously been seen only in isolation, disclosing the concerns of an artist who perceives artistic, social, and political spheres as mutually related and interwoven. Much of Charney's early work, including ""Les Maisons de la rue Sherbrooke"", ""A Chicago Construction"" and ""A Toronto Construction"", has been purposefully ephemeral. Moving in a different direction, several of his more recent projects, such as the ""Canadian Tribute to Human Rights"" and ""The CCA Garden"" are permanent and publicly accessible. ""Parables and Other Allegories"" offers a comprehensive historical record of Charney's work. Over 200 illustrations, including 95 colour reproductions and 96 duotones, along with Charney's own commentary, provide a critical context for his oeuvre. An introduction by Alessandra Latour, guest curator of the exhibition and essays by Patricia C. Phillips and Robert-Jan van Pelt explore various aspects of his projects, among them the roles of collective memory and reiterative narrative as well as the harrowing, shamanic investigations of history and monumental evil in the ""German Series"". An interview by Phyllis Lambert investigates how Charney approaches his work and considers a wide range of issues such as abstration and representation, the notion of space and the idea of process as meaning."

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Phyllis Lambert is founder and director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

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