Pretty Broad Tastes - Leslie Winer, Linder & Christopher Shannon

Rough Trade Books 2023 ISBN 9781914236396 Acqn 33971

Pb 14x21cm 96pp col ills £29.99

Pretty Broad Tastes is the first full collection of poems from the seminal artist and writer Leslie
Winer.

A literary and visual trialogue between Winer, Christopher Shannon and Linder after a decade of
varied collaborative projects across the worlds of design, music, art and performance, Pretty
Broad Tastes marks the latest embarkation point on Leslie Winer's wholly original artistic odyssey
through both the mainstream and counter-cultural landscape of the past half a century. As befits a
boundless artistic imagination, and an instinct that has consistently anticipated the zeitgeist while
exhibiting the bravery of the avant-garde, these poems are fractured, amorphous linguistic
experiments in code-making and codebreaking, yielding emotional truths and a visceral
physicality through a definitively modern modernist project.

Presented here alongside a pamphlet of photomontages by the artist Linder, and a series of
images collected by Christopher Shannon, augmented by annotations in Winer's handwriting.
Together, these pamphlets create a single work - and object of intrigue, open-hearted and
available to a multitudinous readership's discreet and varied interpretations. Touching on the
images and imagery of the artists' combined obsessions, their cultural environments, their shared
and separate histories and memory, this is a genuinely unique, enigmatic, and genre-defying
work of art.

Held together in a specially designed folder containing the three pamphlets by the individual
artists, this 'object of intrigue' also contains a "Pretty Broad Tastes" flexidisc feat. vocal by Leslie
Winer & music by Maxwell Sterling, a postcard by Linder and a Matchbook.

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THE AUTHORS

Leslie Winer showed an appetite for music, literature and art from a young age, those interests
drawing her into a circle of intellectuals, artists and radicals including the likes of William S.
Burroughs and Jean-Michel Basquiat while living in New York. Re-locating to London, she
released her seminal debut album Witch, anticipating much that would become central to the
period's musical landscape. Winer continues to write and record and pursue a myriad of other
artistic avenues, resulting in the kind of boundless output that only an artist of truly singular vision
can achieve.

Christopher Shannon is a multidisciplinary designer, printmaker and artist. Christopher works at

the intersection of image production, content creation and clothing construction that provoke
questions and look at the ways masculinity, culture and class are entangled and confused in the
contemporary age. Northern culture is a constant source of inspiration, yet never from a place of
nostalgia.

Linder is a British artist known for her photography, photomontage and confrontational
performance art. Previously the frontwoman of Manchester postpunk band Ludus, she was
awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 2017, and has had solo exhibitions at Nottingham
Contemporary, Kestnergesellschaft, Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris and MoMA PS1. In 2025,
Linder will have a retrospective exhibition at a major London institute.

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