In The Transversality of Gregory de la Haba: The Future of Art and Myth are Upon Us , acclaimed critical theorist Bryan Reynolds situates the oeuvre of iconic New York multimedia artist Gregory de la Haba within and beyond the dynamic history of structural anthropology, myth theory, and post-structuralist philosophy. Reynolds demonstrates, à la the radical thought of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, how de la Haba performs Claude Levi-Strauss’ theory of the bricoleur – an ingenious craftsman who fabricates wonders from everyday materials – to the tune of Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of deconstruction – which highlights the arbitrary yet nevertheless emergent quality of wonder – to create a myth-making body of work that offers a profoundly ironic critique of the state of humanity even while it reminds us of the liberatory, generative, and metamorphic powers of artistic expression. # # # # # Bryan Reynolds is Chancellor’s Professor and Claire Trevor Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, and the Artistic Director of the Amsterdam/Los Angeles-based Transversal Theater Company, a director of theater, a performer, and a playwright. Over the last 20 years, his plays and musicals have been produced in 15 countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Intermedial Theater: Performance Philosophy, Transversal Poetics, and the Future of Affect and Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida. Gregory de la Haba, A cum laude graduate of Harvard University, is an American interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, and cultural producer. A skilled painter with a pedagogical lineage that stretches back to Jacques Louis Davide, he is an exemplary practitioner of fine art whose conceptual practice resists categorization. De la Haba’s work explores themes of addiction, contemporary notions of masculinity, and Duende, a heightened state of emotion, expression, and authenticity derived from pure artistic expression. It is from this place that the artist unlocks his true self—both in art and in life. De la Haba’s work has been exhibited internationally, at Salzach Biennial, Salzburg Arts Festival, Queens Museum, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Contemporary Istanbul, Design Week Milan, Mykonos Biennale, SCOPE Art Show, Art Miami, Art Southampton, and Sylt Art Fair. A native New Yorker, the artist lives and works in NYC with his wife, Teresa, and their boys, Matthew and Sebastian. PCP Press is an independent publisher of avant-garde books and insurgent authors. Founded in 1990 in San Francisco at a time when transgressive and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past three decades PCP has grown into a consistent publisher of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world’s most respected authors and cultural institutions — including Raymond Pettibon, Dave Hickey, Wayne Thiebaud, Bryan Reynolds, David Hawkes, Shepard Fairey, LG Williams, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and Luscerne Kunstpanorama.