World Food Books

Screen Vol. 21 No. 4
Independent Cinema. British TV - The Future

1981, English
Softcover, 102 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Society for Education in Film and Television Ltd. / London

$14.00 - In stock -

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Vol. 21 No. 4 of Screen, Independent Cinema, British TV - The Future, published by the Society for Education in Film and Television Ltd., London.

Contents : JOHN CAUGHIE: Because I am King and Independent Cinema; A discussion between Marc Karlin and Claire Johnston, Mark Nash and Paul Willemen: Problems of Independent Cinema; JOHN ELLIS: At the Fountainhead (of TV History); The Independent Film-makers' Association and the Fourth Channel; British TV Today; Channel Four and Innovation; PAUL KERR: Re-Inventing the Cinema; ALAN LOVELL: BFI Regional Conference; IAN CONNELL: Edinburgh TV Festival; MICHAEL O'PRAY: On Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics.

G—VG copy.

File under: Society for Education in Film and Television Ltd. / London Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Theory / Essay

Questions of Cinema
by Stephen Heath

1981, English
Softcover, 260 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Indiana University Press / Indiana

$30.00 - Out of stock

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1981 first edition of Questions of Cinema by Stephen Heath, published by Indiana University Press. Stephen Heath's approach to the study of film, drawing on developments in psycho-analysis, semiotics and Marxism, is massively influential not only among cinema specialists, but also for students of art, literature and the sociology of culture. His own writings continue to be the most approachable in a notoriously difficult field.
For Questions of Cinema he has collected together a representative range of pieces, many of which are unpublished or not easily available to English readers, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings. Topics treated include: the construction of space in film, narrative, the terms of the presence of people in film, relations of viewer to film, cinema and language, technology, political and avant-garde film practice ... Directors' work considered runs from Orson Welles through Hitchcock to Oshima and a number of British and American "independents."

Stephen Heath is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Nouveau Roman and Vertige du deplacement and has recently edited with Teresa de Lauretis The Cinematic Apparatus. He has taught and lectured on film in Europe and the United States.

Good copy general wear split to bottom spine cover edge. Erasable marginalia in pencil.

File under: Orson Welles Alfred Hitchcock Nagisa Ōshima Stephen Heath Indiana University Press / Indiana Film / Video Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Sociology / Politics Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Psychoanalysis Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language

Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film
by Erik Barnouw

1974 / 1983, English
Softcover, 360 pages, 21 x 13 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Oxford University Press / New York

$20.00 - Out of stock

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Revised 1983 edition of the 1974 Oxford University publication Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film by Erik Barnouw, a classic work on documentary films and filmmaking that surveys the history of the genre from 1895 to the present day (1983). Filled with photographs, many of them rare, collected during the author's travels around the world, Barnouw considers the medium within international political and social climate, examining the impact of new technical breakthroughs such as the video cassettes and cable television, spanning an extensive chronology of documentary works from Louis Lumiere's first effort to David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth via Dziga Vertov, Frederick Wiseman, Jean Pianleve, Roman Lazarevich Karmen, Arne Sucksdorff, Leni Riefenstahl, Albert and David Maysles, and hundreds more. This book makes the growing importance of a unique blend of art and reality accessible and understandable to all film lovers.

Good copy with general wear.

File under: Jean Painlevé Louis Lumiere David Attenborough Dziga Vertov Frederick Wiseman Roman Lazarevich Karmen Arne Sucksdorff Leni Riefenstahl Albert & David Maysles Oxford University Press / New York Film / Video Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Sociology / Politics Crime / Violence

SALE2 No.30
SPECIAL ISSUE

1987, Japanese
Softcover, 168 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

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Issue No.30 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.30, the "Special Issue" features Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini, Richard Cerf, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Paul Wunderlich, Robert Maplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Man Ray, Lewis Carroll, John Willie, Bernard Montorgueil, Guido Crepax, Van Rod, Carlo, Betty Page, Tealdo, clippings from periodicals such as Amateur Bondage, Bondage Life, Bondage Fantasies, Bizarre Comix, Bizarre Classix, Bizarre Fotos, and much more...

Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy with tanning to pages.

File under: Andy Warhol Bernard Montorgueil Betty Page Carlo Guido Crepax Hans Bellmer John Willie Leonor Fini Lewis Carroll Man Ray Paul Wunderlich Richard Cerf Robert Mapplethorpe Tealdo Van Rod Gilles Deleuze Michel Foucault Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Art Counterculture Eros Fashion Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay LGBTQ+

Blade Runner : Storyboard Illustrations
Ridley Scott, Sherman Labby

unknown, English
Softcover (screw post binding), 108 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ? / ?

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Super rare production storyboard bootleg publication for the original 1984 Blade Runner, illustrated throughout by Sherman Labby with typed and handwritten notes, original notes from the production team and bearing the photocopied signature of production manager John W. Rogers. These storyboards were confidential and not allowed to be re-xeroxed, but leaked copies were bootlegged and leaked into fan market places. An incredible insight into the making of one of the greatest films of all time.

Sherman Labby (1929—1998) was a legendary American storyboard artist and production illustrator. After many years as a magazine illustrator, and like many in his craft, his first motion-picture work was in animation at studios such as Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, and Marvel. He worked as a storyboard artist on such shows as Star Trek: The Animated Series, Groovie Goolies, The Batman/Superman Hour, The New Adventures of Batman, The New Adventures of Gilligan, The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, and Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down, and the animated TV series of Journey to the Center of the Earth, Fantastic Voyage, and Godzilla. His best-known live-action credits include Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Wanderers, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Blade Runner, 2010, The Witches of Eastwick, Broadcast News, Lethal Weapon 2, The War of the Roses, Thelma & Louise, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Made in America, Free Willy, The Horse Whisperer, and What Dreams May Come.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Moebius Ivor Powell John W. Rogers Ridley Scott Sherman Labby ? / ? Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Drawing Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Blade Runner : The Inside Story
by Don Shay

2000, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 72 pages, 24 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Titan Books / London

$300.00 - Out of stock

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Super collectible first, limited edition hardcover edition of the amazing "Blade Runner : The Inside Story," the first extensively illustrated book about the most influential sci-fi film ever made, published by the mighty Cinefex and Titan Books in 2000.

In 1982, to coincide with Blade Runner's original release, the highly respected movie magazine Cinefex devoted an entire, extended issue to the design and special effects of Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece. Selling out immediately and in constant demand since, Cinefex and Titan Books brought this classic back into print, in an expanded, remastered hardcover edition in 2000. Not surprisingly, this first clothbound book edition, which was published in a limited edition, also went out of print quickly and has become a collectors item itself. It was later re-issued again in the more common 2003 edition.

Described as 'the single most comprehensive examination of Blade Runner's special effects', this must-have book contains scores of images not available elsewhere, as well as authoritative text, containing in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott, special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull, legendary futurist/designer Syd Mead and dozens of other artists who contributed to this landmark film. This book is the definitive guide to the creation of Bladerunner's unsurpassed vision of the future, and a must for any fan.

Don Shay is the founder and publisher of Cinefex magazine.

Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket with tanning and light wear.

File under: Ridley Scott Syd Mead Douglas Trumbull Don Shay Titan Books / London Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Obliques No. 10—11 : Artaud

1976, French
Softcover, 360 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Obliques / Paris

$100.00 - Out of stock

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The landmark, over-sized Obliques special double issue dedicated to Antonin Artaud, published in Paris in 1976. The French literary journal Obliques (who published special issues on Bellmer, Kafka, Klossowski, Vian, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, Strindberg, Genet, Female Surrealists...) published this extensive study and portrait of the extreme and provocative life of Antonin Artaud (1896—1948), French writer, poet, dramatist, artist, essayist, actor, theatre director and major figure of the European avant-garde. From his volatile alliance with the Surrealist movement to his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, this heavily illustrated (including many photographs and Artaud's drawings) documents his writings, letters and artworks, his cinema, theatre and esotericism, biography and bibliography, with contributions by Michel Sicard, Michel Camus,
Jerome Peignot, Guy Rosolato, Jean Domeneghini, Jerome Prieur, Jean Cocteau, Françoise Buisson, Alfred Jarry, Marc Fumaroli, Jean Thibaudeau, Alain Jouffroy, Jean-Michel Heimonet, Jean-Paul Morel, Pierre Courtens, Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, Charles Bachat, Ronald Hayman, Jacques Prevel, Anie Besnard, Bruno Chabert, Claude Reichler, Florence De Meredieu, Daniel Giraud, Camille Bryen, J.M.G. Le Clezio, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Thomas, Philippe Sollers, Paule Thevenin, Camille Bryen, Michel Butor, Jean-Claude Grosjean, Gerard Mace, Jose Quiroga, Roger Caillois, and more. Texts in French.

was the first publisher to present a comprehensive list of the literary and plastic production of Surrealist women with this gorgeous volume, long before the works of surrealist women, as a corpus, began to be more widely studied in the 1980s. Featuring well known names, but also many female artists neglected and seldom mentioned in the recent (strangely narrow-minded) re-evaluation of this period, this beautifully printed issue of Obliques is an incredibly valuable reference on a movement that was decidedly ‘feminine’. Edited by Roger Borderie with Michel Camus, it features profiles on the work and writing of Belen, Maya Bell, Bona, Leonora Carrington, Lise Deharme, Jacqueline Duprey, Aube Elléouët, Josette Exandier, Leonor Fini, Aline Gagnaire, Giovanna, Jane Graverol, Marianne Van Hirtum, Rozeta Hum, Valentine Hugo, Karskaya, Greta Knutson, Laure, Gina Pane, Annie Lebrun, Georgette Magritte, Manina, Joyce Mansour, Nora Mitrani, Meret Oppenheim, Mimi Parent, Valentine Penrose, Gisele Prassinos, Karina Raeck, Remedios Varo, Sibylle Ruppert, Colette Thomas, Toyen, Isabelle Waldberg, Unica Zurn, Cécile Reims, Dorothea Tanning, Greta Knutson, and more. Additional texts and works by Beatrice Didier, Cécile Reims, Michel Butor, Michel Sicard, Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues, Jean Roudaut, Rene Micha, Gerard Legrand, Jean Pfeiffer, Jacques Laurans, Michel Carassou, Annie Lebrun, Charles Bachat, Olivier Milliard, Robert Brechon, Jules Michelet, Jerome Prieur, Xaviere Gauthier, Elsa Thoresen Gouveia, plus a gallery by Titi Parant and Henri Maccheroni's Portraits Corrigés. Profusely illustrated with artworks, mostly in b/w with some colour sections.

Very Good copy of the rarer hardcover edition in VG dust jacket with signs of ageing and some wear/small tears

File under: Antonin Artaud Alfred Jarry Michel Sicard Michel Camus Jerome Peignot Guy Rosolato Jean Domeneghini Jerome Prieur Jean Cocteau Françoise Buisson Alfred Jarry Marc Fumaroli Jean Thibaudeau Alain Jouffroy Jean-Michel Heimonet Jean-Paul Morel Pierre Courtens Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt Charles Bachat Ronald Hayman Jacques Prevel Anie Besnard Bruno Chabert Claude Reichler Florence De Meredieu Daniel Giraud Camille Bryen J.M.G. Le Clezio Jacques Derrida Gilles Deleuze Michel Butor Jean-Claude Grosjean Gerard Mace Jose Quiroga Roger Caillois Henri Thomas Paule Thévenin Philippe Sollers Antonin Artaud Obliques / Paris Surrealism Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Drawing Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Periodicals Film / Video

León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
Tangled Alphabets

2009, English / Spanish
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 199 pages, 31 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by MoMA / New York Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia / Madrid

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First edition hardcover comprehensive catalogue on the avant-garde Latin American artists León Ferrari and Mira Schendel, published on the occasion of the major travelling exhibition organised by Luis Pérez-Oramas at MoMA, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, 2009—2010. Profusely illustrated with essays by Luis Perez-Oramas, Andrea Giunta, and Rodrigo Naves.

León Ferrari (Argentine, b. 1920) and Mira Schendel (Brazilian, b. Switzerland, 1919–1988) are considered among the most significant artists working in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century. Their works address language as a major visual subject matter: the visual body of language, the embodiment of voices as words and gestures, and language as a metaphor of the worldly aspect of human existence through the eloquence of naming and writing. They produced their works in the neighboring countries of Argentina and Brazil throughout the 1960s and 1980s, when the question of language was particularly central to Western culture due to the central role taken by post-structuralism, semiotics, and the philosophy of language. Although their drawings, sculptures, and paintings are contemporary with the birth of Conceptualism, they are distinctively different, and have not yet been exhibited in their entirety in the United States.

As New.

File under: León Ferrari Mira Schendel Luis Pérez-Oramas Andrea Giunta Rodrigo Naves MoMA / New York Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia / Madrid Art Drawing Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Concrete Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy Theory / Essay Sound / Music Fiction / Poetry Film / Video

Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
by Lucy Lippard

1973 / 1997, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 173 x 213 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

$70.00 - Out of stock

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“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'”—Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period. Lippard provides a new preface to this 1997 reprint edition.

Includes: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young

"Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Josef Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young and others. "The unusual form of this provocative book intentionally reflects the chaotic network of ideas connected with so-called conceptual art or information art or idea art, in America and abroad, from 1966 to 1972. Arranged as a continuous bibliographical chronology, into which is woven a rich collection of original documents - including texts by, and taped discussions with and among, the artists involved - and annotations by Lucy R. Lippard, the book has the informal quality of a lively contemporary forum. Only a minimum of order is imposed; for the most part the reader is left to confront the curious compendium of information on his or her own, to follow changing ideas and artistic developments over the six-year period, to witness the gradual (and controversial) "dematerialization" of the art object." -- publisher's statement."

Good—Very Good copy with general light shelf wear and tanning to spine.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Gilbert & George Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy R. Lippard University of Chicago Press / Chicago Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Photography Film / Video Ecology / Earth Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

Many of Them Vol. V
The Future of Fiction

2017, English
Softcover, 672 pages, 20 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Many of Them / Spain

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Sealed copy, out-of-print, limited to 1000 copies.

Fashion : Cosmic Wonder, Balenciaga, Loewe, Dries Van Noten, Chanel, Comme Des Garçons, Sacai, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Junya Watanabe, Paco, Rabanne, Off-White, Dior Homme, Olivier Theyskens, Jacquemus, Lutz Huelle, Vejas, Simone Rocha, Louis Vuitton, Courrèges, Undercover, Celine, Miu Miu, Hermès, Bernhard Willhelm, Sies Marjan, Prada, Raf Simons, John Alexander, Skelton, Olympia Le-Tan, Wendy & Jim, Koché, JW Anderson, Ligia Dias, Lemaire, Cherevichkiotvichki, Eatable Of Many Orders, Daniela Gregis, Hood By Air, Molly Goddard, Bless.

Cinema : Oliver Laxe, Paz Encina, Paul Verhoeven, Amat Escalante, Andres Di Tella, Milagros Mumenthaler, Joao Pedro Rodriges Pablo Larrain Terence Davies, Walter Salles, Jonas Trueba, Bertrand Tavernier.

Many of Them is a limited edition publication. Its aim is to offer a space for discussion in which creators can share their perspective about their own field, their languages and the problems they face in their everyday practices. It originally started as a diary in 2008 and it keeps evolving into different formats.

File under: Christophe Lemaire Comme des Garçons Balenciaga Bernhard Willhelm Yohji Yamamoto Junya Watanabe Issey Miyake Raf Simons Bless Dries Van Noten Cosmic Wonder Undercover Céline Hermés Many of Them / Spain Film / Video Periodicals Photography Textiles Fashion Out-of-print / Rare

Many of Them Vol. 6
Rue du Faubourg-du-Temple, 75010 Paris

2018, English
Softcover, 552 pages, 19.6 × 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Many of Them / Spain

$80.00 - Out of stock

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"This issue is the result of daily photo shoots on the same street of Paris from 15 May 2018 to 15 July 2018, with selected pieces from: LOEWE, BALENCIAGA, CHANEL, COMME DES GARÇONS, MIU MIU, SACAI, ISSEY MIYAKE, YOHJI YAMAMOTO, PACO RABANNE, BYREDO, GUCCI, SIMONEROCHA, OLIVIER THEYSKENS, JACQUEMUS, REALITY STUDIO, LOUIS VUITTON, CÉLINE , HERMÈS, DIOR HOMME, PRADA, RAF SIMONS, UNDERCOVER, OFF-WHITE, LEMAIRE, BLESS, JUNYA WATANABE, ÉTUDES, LAUREN MANOOGIAN, SIES MARJAN, GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY, BEIRA, GEOFFREY B. SMALL; and conversations with YOSHIYUKI MIYAMAE, WIM WENDERS, BEN GORHAM, DRIES VAN NOTEN, JAMES FRANCO, RUBEN ÖSTLUND, ECKHAUS LATTA, MARK JENKINS, TODD HAYNES AND ANDRE WALKER. Thanks to all the contributors for making it possible to accomplish this love letter to Paris and its citizens."

As New, sealed.

File under: Loewe Balenciaga Chanel Miu Miu Sacai Issey Miyake Yohji Yamamoto Paco Rabanne Byredo Gucci Simonerocha Dior Homme Prada Raf Simons Undercover Off-White Lemaire Hermés Céline Olivier Theyskens Jacquemus Reality Studio Louis Vuitton Bless Junya Watanabe Études Lauren Manoogian Sies Marjan Gosha Rubchinskiy Beira Geoffrey B. Small Yoshiyuki Miyamae Wim Wenders Ben Gorham Dries Van Noten James Franco Ruben Östlund Eckhaus Latta Mark Jenkins Todd Haynes Andre Walker Many of Them / Spain Periodicals Fashion Photography Film / Video

Slime Dynamics
by Ben Woodard

2012, English
Softcover, 84 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Zero Books / UK

$34.00 - Out of stock

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Through speculative philosophy and lurid cultural objects, Slime Dynamics explores the muck of life as a darkly vitalistic substance.

Despite humanity's gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue—the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material—thereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sphere of thought and existence. Arguing that slime is a viable physical and metaphysical object necessary to produce a realist bio-philosophy void of anthrocentricity, this text explores naturephilosophie, speculative realism, and contemporary science; hyperbolic representations of slime found in the weird texts of HP Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti; as well as survival horror films, video games, and graphic novels, in order to present the dynamics of slime not only as the trace of life but as the darkly vitalistic substance of life.

Ben Woodard received his PhD in Theory and Criticism from Western University in 2016. From 2017–20 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the IPK (Institute of Philosophy and Sciences of Art) at Leuphana University where he completed a habilitation on the analytic/continental divide in philosophy through the work of F.H. Bradley. Since 2020 Ben has lectured at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy mostly on the history, philosophy, and politics of the life sciences. In broad terms, his work focuses on the relationship between naturalism and idealism in the long 19th century. Ben also writes on science fiction and horror film and literature.

File under: Ben Woodard Zero Books / UK Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Philosophy Film / Video Fiction / Poetry

H. R. Giger
Biomechanics

1988, German
Softcover, 96 pages, 42.5 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Edition C. (Edition Crocodile) / Switzerland

$500.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare, very first 1988 Swiss edition of H. R. Giger's Biomechanics, published by Edition C. (Edition Crocodile). In his classic series of oversized and visually overwhelming early art volumes, this book comprises a retrospective showcase, from 1964—88, of Giger's work, designed by and with running commentary by Giger himself, with over 200 drawings, paintings, and sculptures, and including concept art for the film Poltergeist II, and design paintings for Emerson, Lake, and Palmer albums. With a foreword by legendary Science Fiction author and longtime Giger fan Harlan Ellison, who dubs him "out latter-day Hieronymus Bosch."

Very Good copy with light wear and light pinch to spine.

File under: H.R. Giger Harlan Ellison Edition C. (Edition Crocodile) / Switzerland Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Surrealism Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Drawing Painting Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare

raster-noton.oacis
by Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Bender, Peter Kraut

2000, English / German
Softcover w. CD in printed bag, 104 pages, 23 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Raster-Noton / Chemnitz

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Deluxe edition of raster-noton.oacis, the experimental audio-visual book and CD project published in 2000 by Raster-Noton, the legendary electronic music label founded in Germany in 1996, on the occasion of taktlos-bern event, 15-16 September 2000, Dampfzentrale, Bern. Edition of 3000 copies. Acoustics and optics, raster-noton.oacis goes beyond the momentary. The texts by top writers like Susanne Binas, Rob Young (The Wire), Pinky Rose, Peter Kraut (NZZ) and Martin Pesch (e.g. Frieze, Spex, Kunstforum) examine how raster-noton works on the cutting edge of electronic music, computer graphics and video animation, with which supreme ease the label moves between pop/club culture and the fine arts. Archives all discographies and performances throughout the 1990s, with graphics and photographic illustrations throughout in colour/bw. Softcover book housed in printed plastic bag — creative cover flap includes enhanced CD with audiotracks from the artists and multimedia data for Macintosh to adequately complete this state-of-the-art project. Includes tracks by Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Bender, and others via projects Noto, Impulse, Byetone, Komet, CoH, Alva Noto...

Award for "Best Books of Switzerland" 2000.

Very Good all round, some wear to bag, otherwise all perfectly preserved.

File under: Carsten Nicolai Olaf Bender Peter Kraut Susanne Binas Rob Young Pinky Rose Peter Kraut Martin Pesch Raster-Noton / Chemnitz Sound / Music Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Minimal Art Film / Video SALE

Dan Graham
Some Rockin' : Dan Graham Interviews

2023, English
Softcover, 384 pages, 13.5 x 20 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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A collection of Dan Graham's interviews and conversations with a wide array of individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines.

Dan Graham- Some Rockin' is a compilation of fifteen interviews (two of them previously unpublished) between Dan Graham and artist friends, architects, musicians, art critics, and curators from various parts of our world. In these interviews Graham's intense interest in and observation of cultural phenomena such as rock music, urbanism, architecture, corporate culture, and art world politics and their historical development overlaps and interferes with the articulated interest of the interviewers in Graham's art, sense of humour, attitude, and point of view in regard of a huge variety of topics. Two essays, besides the "Introduction," are added to this compilation- the essay "The Museum in Evolution" by Dan Graham, and an essay by the editor, Gregor Stemmrich, on the development and far reaching implications of Graham's art.

File under: Dan Graham Sternberg Press / Berlin Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Conceptual Art Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

Mike Kelley
Foul Perfection : Essays and Criticism

2003, English
Softcover, 258 pages, 20.3 x 22.5 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley.

The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture, and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. The subjects on which Kelley has written are as varied as his artistic media. They include the work of fellow artists, sound, caricature, the uncanny, UFOlogy, and gender-bending.

This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years. It contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic." It also contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, OEyvind Fahlstroem, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek, among others. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.

“This collection proves that [Kelley] has not only helped write history but has had an effect on it.” — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum

File under: David Askevold Douglas Huebler John Miller Mike Kelley Paul Thek Survival Research Laboratories Divine Öyvind Fahlström John C. Welchman Mike Kelley The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Mike Kelley
Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions

2021, English
Softcover, 244 pages, 13 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Mousse / Milan

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Now out-of-print, Mike Kelley — Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions is a critical appraisal of Mike Kelley’s politics of culture as expressed in his visual art and writings. An essay by Laura López Paniagua, with an introduction by John Miller.

American artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012) was the mastermind behind some of the most bizarre and instantly recognizable artistic projects of the 1990s. Dedicated as he was to visual art, Kelley was also an insightful theorist who wrote prolifically about his own creations as well as the historical context in which he worked. His writing reveals a matrix of deeply felt theories regarding the aesthetics of the 1980s, ’90s and 2000s, and his concern with victim culture and repressed memory syndrome.

This book presents a new perspective on the life and work of the artist, assessing his personal philosophy via art as well as writing. Art historian Laura López Paniagua places Kelley’s work in conversation with the theories of thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through Paniagua’s transdisciplinary approach, Kelley’s oeuvre emerges as a stance based in materialist aesthetics.

As New.

File under: Mike Kelley John Miller Laura López Paniagua Mousse / Milan Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Film / Video Theory / Essay

Peter Gidal
The Author as Producer of Nothing

2021, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 12 x 20 cm
Published by Rab-Rab Press / Helsinki

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The first publication of a lost 1978 text by Peter Gidal—one of the most influential experimental filmmakers ever.

The book includes the first publication of Peter Gidal's text from 1978, with a new introduction. Gidal in this dense theoretical essay deals with the limits of language and representation in the practice of experimental filmmaking and writing. Gidal's lost text The Author as Producer of Nothing will give a new insight into the theoretical and political context to experimental film practices.

The afterword by Sezgin Boynik discusses in detail the political contradictions of Gidal's filmic non-objectivity.

"The process of the film's making deals with devices that result in demystification or attempted demystification of the film process. But by 'deals with' I do not mean 'represents'. In other words, such films do not document various film procedures, which would place them in the same category as films which transparently document a narrative, a set of actions, etc. Documentation, through usage of the film medium as transparent, invisible, is exactly the same when the object being documented is some 'real event', some 'film procedure', some 'story', etc. An avant-garde film defined by its development towards increased materialism and materialist function does not represent, or document, anything. The film produces certain relations between segments, between what the camera is aimed at and the way that 'image' is presented. The dialectic of the film is established in that space of tension between materialist flatness, grain, light, movement, and the supposed reality that is represented. Consequently a continual attempt to destroy the illusion is necessary."—Peter Gidal

Peter Gidal (born 1946 in New York) is an influential British film theorist and avant-garde filmmaker, associated with the English "Structural/Materialist" movement (along with Malcolm Le Grice notably). He has published in numerous magazines (Studio International, Screen, October, Undercut) and is the author of several books, including Andy Warhol: Films and Paintings (1971), Materialist Film (1988) and Understanding Beckett: A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett (1986).

Afterword by Sezgin Boynik.
Graphic design: Ott Kagove.

File under: Peter Gidal Peter Gidal Sezgin Boynik Rab-Rab Press / Helsinki Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

The Legend of Maya Deren : A Documentary Biography and Collected Works, Volume I, Part 2, Chambers
by Veve A. Clark, Millicent Hodson, and Catrina Neiman

1988, English
Softcover,‎ 19.05 x 24.13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Anthology Film Archives / New York

$180.00 - Out of stock

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Published in the 1980s by the Anthology Film Archives in New York, this long out-of-print comprehensive work remains the authoritative source for biographical information about Deren. Volume two of this expansive work focuses on the films of Maya Deren. At almost 700 pages, the book documents Deren’s development as a filmmaker and contains film scripts, articles she wrote on film-making, her earliest publicity, reviews and a facsimile reproduction of An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film. Also included are correspondence, excerpts from grant applications and production ledgers, many film stills, photographs—many by Deren herself, and interviews with friends and critics. It remains the best book available on Deren's films.

"Essential for anyone interested In experimental film and women artists, THE LEGEND OF MAYA DEREN is also a must for those concerned with other arts, letters, and social Issues of our time. Libraries would do well to add several copies of this book to their collections"—Cecile Starr, American filmmaker, educator, author, and a founder and co-director of the Women's Independent Film Exchange

Very Good copy with light cover wear/age.

File under: Maya Deren Veve A. Clark Millicent Hodson Catrina Neiman Anthology Film Archives / New York Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

Maya Deren — Choreographed for Camera
by Mark Alice Durant

2022, English
Hardcover, 350 pages, 23 x 18 cm
Published by Saint Lucy Books / Baltimore

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"A brilliant book. Durant tells the story of the radical and multi-dimensional life of Maya Deren in ways that are as engrossing and inspiring as Deren's art. Every artist should read this."—Paul Chan

"Drawing from a treasure trove of archival materials, Mark Alice Durant gives a vivid account of the swath Maya Deren cut through the modernist century. Durant’s gorgeous writing captures how, in Deren’s hands, cinema is a devotion to life itself."—Laura U. Marks

"A vibrant cultural history of one of art's most exciting eras, Mark Alice Durant’s Maya Deren, Choreographed for Camera is a feast of life and art."—Lynne Tillman

"In Mark Alice Durant, the legendary Maya Deren has found her ideal biographer, at the right time, when the world desperately needs her, and his, uncanny insights into the mysteries of the image."—David Levi Strauss

"Maya Deren was not only a legend, but a flesh-and-blood individual, as is made amply apparent in Mark Alice Durant’s illuminating, loving and long-overdue biography."—J. Hoberman

Drama and myth frame the life and death of Maya Deren. Born in Kiev in 1917, at the start of the Russian Revolution, she died forty-four years later in New York City. In her brief life, she established herself as a pioneering experimental filmmaker, prolific writer, accomplished photographer, and crusader for a personal and poetic cinema. With its dreamy circular narrative and enigmatic imagery, her first film, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), has inspired generations of artists, filmmakers, and poets. Deren worked and collaborated with numerous mid-century cultural luminaries, including Katherine Dunham, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Anais Nin, Gregory Bateson, Jonas Mekas, and Joseph Campbell.

Deren received the first Guggenheim Fellowship ever awarded for creative filmmaking, using the funding to travel to Haiti where she became a devotee of Vodou. In 1953, she pubished Divine Horsemen, a ground-breaking ethnographic study of Haitian religious culture. Although Deren completed only six short films in her lifetime, her impact on the history of cinema is immeasurable. She has become the patron saint of 20th century experimental film. The aura that suffuses Deren’s legend emanates from the power of her films, magnified by her bohemian glamour and visionary intelligence.

This is the first full biography of Deren. Based on years of research, interviews with some of Deren’s closest collaborators, and generously illustrated with film stills and photographs, author Mark Alice Durant creates a vivid and accessible narrative exploring the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of this remarkable and charismatic artist.

File under: Maya Deren Mark Alice Durant Saint Lucy Books / Baltimore Film / Video Theory / Essay Art

Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance
by Hanna Rose Shell

2012, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 240 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. In Hide and Seek, Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as it developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography, innovations in warfare, and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural history. Today camouflage is commonly thought of as a textile pattern of interlocking greens and browns. But in Hide and Seek it reveals itself as much more — a set of institutional structures, mixed-media art practices, and permutations of subjectivity, that emerged over the course of the twentieth century in environments increasingly mediated by photographic and cinematic intervention.

Through a series of fascinating case studies, Shell uncovers three conceptually linked species of photographic camouflage — the static, the serial, and the dynamic — and shows how each not only reflects the type of photographic reconnaissance it was meant to counter, but also contains aspects of the previously developed species. Hide and Seek develops its argument from the material forms camouflage has left behind — photomontages, paper blankets, stuffed rabbits, ghillie suits, and instructional films.

Beginning in the domains of natural history and figurative art in the late nineteenth-century, continuing through the rise of aerial warfare in World War I, and onto the cinematic techniques designed to train snipers and civilians during World War II, this book is both a history and a theory of the drive to hide in plain sight.

"There is much to enjoy in all four chapters and without doubt this book, detailing interrelationships of technological advances in photography and film and developments in camouflage media and camouflage consciousness, will live into the future as readers scrutinise it, evaluate it and take its useful and imaginative store of ideas in additional directions."—Ann Elias * History of Photography

Very Good in VG dust jacket.

File under: Hanna Rose Shell Zone Books / New York Theory / Essay Photography Art Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Film / Video Sociology / Politics Painting Crime / Violence Ecology / Earth

Too Negative No. 3
February 1995

1995, Japanese
Softcover, 210 pages, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

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Too Negative   No. 3, February 1995. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue features the Latin American corpse/death photography of Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, bondage and fetish photography by Kiyoshi Ikejiri, the artwork of Trevor Brown, the Police Hospital on Bangkok photographed by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, tattoos, female bodybuilders, gynaecology photographs, loads of abnormal medical photography, fetish and bondage photoshoots, close-up genital photography, deranged art/collage, you name it.

Very Good - Fine copy.

File under: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Trevor Brown Kiyoshi Ikejiri Tom Shobo / Japan Art Eros Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Photography Japanese Photography Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fetishism / BDSM Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Occult / Esoterica Film / Video

 Too Negative No. 5
July 1995

1995, Japanese
Softcover, 210 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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 Too Negative No. 5 July 1995. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue,    Too Negative No. 6 August 1995, features Thailand corpse/death photography by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Trevor Brown artwork, Crime Museum photography, Chokudo Shibuya, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, western hardcore porn, asshole photography by Goro Asawa, Kotaro Kobayashi, x-ray porn, western obesity porn / adipophilia, Berlin sex, death art by noise artist Raita Ishikawa, Lisa Palac's Future Sex, piercing fetish, bizarre sex, medical photography, plus much more.  

Very Good copy.

File under: Kotaro Kobayashi Trevor Brown Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Raita Ishikawa Chokudo Shibuya Kiyoshi Ikejiri Goro Asawa Tom Shobo / Japan Crime / Violence Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Film / Video Photography Theory / Essay LGBTQ+

 Too Negative No. 6
August 1995

1995, Japanese
Softcover, 210 pages, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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 Too Negative No. 6 August 1995. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue,    Too Negative No. 6 August 1995, features corpse/death photography by Kotaro Kobayashi, fetish photography by Kiyoshi Ikejiri, Japanese neo-surrealist Sakuba Tomomi, upclose genital "non-retouching" collage/photography by Goro Asawa and Yoshiki Tsutsumi, death art by noise artist Raita Ishikawa, formaldehyde fetus photography by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, genital piercing and modification, demented collage and collected imagery/medical/freak photography/illustration/porn, extreme anatomy imagery, lactating, pissing, western obesity porn / adipophilia, 'Bild Des Verbrechens In Ela Granti' crime scene photography from legend early 20th Century Japanese book, porn star John Holmes, artwork by Trevor Brown, plus much more.  

Very Good copy.

File under: Trevor Brown Kiyoshi Ikejiri Kotaro Kobayashi Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Tom Shobo / Japan Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Periodicals Art Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography Film / Video LGBTQ+