"There is a rainbow stretching from Leicester, UK to Stuttgart, Germany, connecting two families and the lives of two dogs. The English artist Jonathan Monk encouraged his two uncles to document the everyday life and lust of their dogs: Monty, the Staffordshire-Terrier on the flowered toilet seat, and Sanny, the German Shepherd, hiding under his favorite cuddelly blanket. Monks investigations continue the tradition of the classical artists books of the sixties, like Ed Ruscha‘s gasoline stations or Bruce Nauman's small fires. The ironical and humoristic atmosphere displayed in »2« mirrors two dogsouls in all their differences and yet - during a confrontation of 120 pages - an astonishing similarity between Monty and Sanny appears ..." -- publisher's statement.