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In Art, Mystery, a controversial former footballer, now export agent specialising in chrome, accepts an unusual commission from an odd source, the very man who brought him down, a former football referee turned art handler - to find and export a pornographic work of Renaissance art.

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9781937112202

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I am impressed with Art, Mystery. Cracking dialogue. I enjoyed reading it. I also thought it was very funny and wore its humour integrally. I mean, like, subtle. --Josephine Pryde With a ratio heavily favoring the amount of cultural scaffolding erected to the number of footbridges burned, Mr. Mayo, a self-styled refusalist, has stood slyly in the margins of multiple worlds for decades. --Keith Connelly, BOMB Since 1967, Texan guitarist Mayo Thompson has been pulverising the art and language of rock. --David Keenan, The Wire

Since 1967, Texan guitarist Mayo Thompson has been pulverising the art and language of rock. --David Keenan, The Wire With a ratio heavily favoring the amount of cultural scaffolding erected to the number of footbridges burned, Mr. Mayo, a self-styled refusalist, has stood slyly in the margins of multiple worlds for decades. --Keith Connelly, BOMB I am impressed with Art, Mystery. Cracking dialogue. I enjoyed reading it. I also thought it was very funny and wore its humour integrally. I mean, like, subtle. --Josephine Pryde

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Art, Mystery is Mayo Thompson's first published work of fiction since he entered public life in the nineteen-sixties. He is best known for his work with the psychedelic band, The Red Krayola, whose work from then until now has provided alternative questions and answers and much inspiration for those in the music-making racket. Over the years, he has based himself in Houston, New York, London, Berlin and Los Angeles, fostering a long relationship with the arts collective Art & Language since the mid-'Seventies. Thompson is also known work for his work as a record producer, mostly that with bands connected with Rough Trade Records and other labels in the late-'Seventies, and early- to mid-'Eighties--Stiff Little Fingers, The Raincoats, The Fall and James 'Blood' Ulmer being examples. Since 2012, when a continuous performance of the band was staged via Skype during the Whitney Biennial, he has begun openly to pursue his lifelong interest in visual art. He is represented by the Greene-Naftali gallery, with whom he exhibited new works in 2015.

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