Works By Edouard Levé Dalkey Archive Press, £9.50

Do you ever get irritated by the conceptual explanation placed beside a work of art in a gallery? Well, here’s the solution – conceptual descriptions of 533 works of art without the works of art! It’s a very entertaining art gallery in your own home! Check out the Airbus made of kebabs, crashed in the Styrofoam mountains, or the wax museum full of nobodies; or this potential video piece: “A man shows up at a farmers’ meeting and rubs their bodies with a arm-length acrobat sculpted in agate.” This sense of play and the surreal peppers the book to great effect. Of course there are the usual concerns of post- post- (etc) modernism – the idea of originals and authenticity vs copies, the idea of framing and boundaries, of mapping and traces, sources and subversions. An original and surprisingly funny book.