An artist's first major catalogue is either an encyclopaedic compilation of their works to date enriched with symbolic capital, i.e.more or less discrete allusions to.prestigious museums, galleries,prizes and awards, stipends, curators and authors, or it is an artist's book, that - extraordinarily airy-fairy and deliberately unclassifiable for a specialist audience - celebrates itself as an apparently self-satisfying work, and so is surreptitiously geared all the more hopefully to generating value on the art market.