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Selected Amazon Reviews
by Kevin Killian

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 664 pages, 23.7 x 16 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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Introduction by Wayne Koestenbaum
Afterword by Dodie Bellamy

A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.

An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com, sagacious shopper Kevin Killian holds forth on these household essentials and many, many, many others.

The beloved author of more than a dozen volumes of innovative poetry, fiction, drama, and scholarship, Killian was for decades a charismatic participant in San Francisco's New Narrative writing circle. From 2003–2019, he was also one of Amazon's most prolific reviewers, rising to rarefied “Top 100” and “Hall of Fame” status on the site. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, Killian's commentaries consider an incredible variety of items, each review a literary escapade hidden in plain sight amongst the retailer's endless pages of user-generated content. Selected Amazon Reviews at last gathers an appropriately wide swath of this material between two covers, revealing the project to be a unified whole and always more than a lark.

Some for “verified purchases,” others for products enjoyed in theory, Killian's reviews draw on the influential strategies of New Narrative, his unrivaled fandom for both elevated and popular culture, and the fine art of fabulation. Many of them are ingeniously funny—flash-fictional riffs on the commodity as talismanic object, written by a cast of personas worthy of Pessoa. And many others are serious, even scholarly—earnest tributes to contemporaries, and to small-press books that may not have received attention elsewhere, offered with exemplary attention. All of Killian's reviews subvert the Amazon platform, queering it to his own play with language, identity, genre, critique.

Killian's prose is a consistent pleasure throughout Selected Amazon Reviews, brimming with wit, lyricism, and true affection. As the Hall of Famer himself reflected on this form-of-his-own-invention shortly before his untimely passing in 2019: “They're reviews of a sort, but they also seem like novels. They're poems. They're essays about life. I get a lot of my kinks out there, on Amazon.”

"Killian's largely five-star reviews of books, movies, poetry, CDs and the occasional object he may or may not have actually purchased [...] are learned, often laugh-out-loud funny, frequently moving, guilelessly enthusiastic and intellectually generous. The biggest laugh is that he conceived of a way to produce a wholly idiosyncratic art project on the ground of corporate real estate. In doing so he subverted the essentially cynical egotism of capitalism and reasserted art as, always and ever, communal."—Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Washington Post

"And then, quite brilliantly, there are Killian's reviews of sundry consumer products, unrelated to art or culture. (Reader, if you're dithering over the six-hundred-plus pages and the hardback sticker price, these pieces are themselves alone worth the price of admission.)"—Brian Dillon, 4Columns

Kevin Killian (1952–2019) was a San Francisco–based poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, editor, critic, and artist. Highly prolific and radically queer, he published several volumes of poetry and short stories, as well as four novels. He also wrote and produced fifty plays, and with his wife, Dodie Bellamy, coedited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997. In addition to reviewing for Amazon, Killian published criticism in Art in America, Artforum, Artweek, the Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Framework, and elsewhere. Poet D. A. Powell has called Killian “a dark master of the word … an inviting bridegroom and a voyeur who'll let us play in his fictions until we're spent.”

Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, fiction writer, artist, filmmaker, performer—has published twenty-two books, including Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie under My Skin, and The Queen's Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). His first feature-length film, The Collective, premiered at UnionDocs (New York) in 2021. In 2020 he received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He is a distinguished professor of English, French, and comparative literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Dodie Bellamy's writing focuses on sexuality, politics and narrative experimentation, challenging the distinctions between fiction, the essay and poetry. In 2018–19 she was the subject of On Our Mind, a yearlong series of public events, commissioned essays and reading group meetings organized by CCA Wattis ICA. With Kevin Killian, she coedited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997. A compendium of essays on Bellamy's work, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind, was published in 2020 by Wattis ICA/Semiotext(e).

File under: Kevin Killian Wayne Koestenbaum Dodie Bellamy Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay

When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader
by Susan Stryker; Edited by McKenzie Wark

2024, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 22.86 x 15.24 cm
Published by Duke University Press / North Carolina

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Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak showcases the development of Stryker’s writing from the 1990s to the present. It combines canonical pieces, such as “My Words to Victor Frankenstein,” with her hard to find earlier work published in zines and newsletters. Brought together, they ground Stryker’s thought in 1990s San Francisco and its innovative queer, trans, and S/M cultures. The volume includes an introduction by editor McKenzie Wark, who highlights Stryker’s connections to developments in queer theory, media studies, and autotheory while foregrounding Stryker’s innovative writing style and scholarly methods. When Monsters Speak is an authoritative and essential collection by one of the most important and influential intellectuals of our time.

Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Transgender History and coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader.

McKenzie Wark is Professor of Culture and Media at The New School and the author of several books, including Raving and Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker, both also published by Duke University Press.

“Whenever Susan Stryker speaks, I listen. Stryker’s career is one of those that has altered the way that those of us who came after her think—and live our lives. We are so lucky to now have a collection that allows us to trace her thoughts over her own life.”—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

“Decades ago, the monster demanded a word with its creator, and thus was trans studies born. In these pages, trace years of intellectual labor without an academic job in queer San Francisco. Study the obligate fiction of a field’s birth. And surrender to the fear, then the pleasure, of challenging the surgeon in your head. Chase the experience, half psychedelic twinkle, half S/M ripple, of enacting theory in the flesh. Reading Susan Stryker, we are gloriously transformed.”—Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child

"Stryker provides a bracing assessment of frictions within the LGBTQ movement, criticizing cis gay and lesbian individuals who seek to secure a place in mainstream society by excluding trans people. . . . The result is a striking introduction to the work of an essential queer thinker."—Publishers Weekly

"In this slim volume, McKenzie Wark has collected some of Susan Stryker’s most prominent pieces, both fiction and nonfiction. Wark provides a robust introduction, setting the stage for this and subsequent generations to fully grasp the importance and context of her work."—Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine

File under: McKenzie Wark Susan Stryker Duke University Press / North Carolina LGBTQ+ Theory / Essay Eros Fetishism / BDSM Feminism Philosophy

Alan Buchsbaum
Architect and Designer- The Mechanics of Taste

1996, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 31.3 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Monacelli Press / New York

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Texts by Rosalind Krauss, Patricia Leigh Brown, Steven Holl, Michael Sorkin, Stephen Tilly.

Surprising juxtapositions between high elegance and downtown funkiness — a choreography of bright colors and shapes, contrasting textures and patterns, theatrical lighting and quirky found objects — make up the world of Alan Buchsbaum. An imaginative architect and designer, he was deemed one of the originators of the supergraphics look of the 1960s, the high-tech aesthetic of the 1970s, and the loft look of the 1980s. This lavishly illustrated monograph collects — for the first time ever — over forty of his incredible projects. Working in New York during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became famous for his ad-hoc style. The postwar era's bold materials (vinyl, formica, plastic) were united with his flair for embellishing modern forms while mimicking popular culture's nuances — a big curve here, a little wiggle there. A favorite among design professionals and magazine editors, his death in 1987 robbed the industry of a major talent. Featured are his notorious loft spaces for his star clients, who collaborated with Buchsbaum on these dramatic transformations. His world of fantasy and luxury was also a place of function and comfort, as seen in his commercial spaces, retail stores, and hotels — the 1986-87 Nevele Hotel renovation is a tour de force of retro-chic design. Also documented is a cornucopia of his furnishings, including rugs, tables, chairs, and slipcovers. Contributors, all friends, clients, and/or collaborators, recall his ingenuity and flamboyant personality.

Architect Alan Buchsbaum was a figure of central importance on the American design scene during his two decades of independent practice. His career, and his unique ability both to draw from and to draw out the world around him, reflected the revitalized spirit of his times, the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties. This lavishly illustrated monograph collects, for the first time, over fifty projects; its unique intertwining of work and text, image and type, presents an integrated portrait of Alan Buchsbaum and his design oeuvre prior to his 1987 death from AIDS. Buchsbaum's design outlook was at once irreverent and respectful, ironic and classical, versatile and idiosyncratic, elegant and entertaining. His Pop Art-influenced projects of the late sixties initiated the Super-Graphics look; elements of his High-Tech style of the mid-seventies became ubiquitous in interiors designed during that time; and his romantic modernism of the eighties, rich in materials and textures, foretold more extraordinary work to come. These three broad periods are presented in this volume in more than twenty-five residential designs (for such clients as Ellen Barkin, Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Anna Wintour and David Shaffer), as well as commercial spaces, installations, furniture, and rugs. In addition to the wealth of designs, this book features a variety of Buchsbaum's own writings - a fellowship essay, project descriptions, and zingy one-liners - as well as those of architect/editor Frederic Schwartz, architect/critic Michael Sorkin, writer Patricia Leigh Brown, critic Rosalind Krauss, and architects Stephen Tilly and Steven Holl. The complex picture that emerges is atestament to the individual whose untimely death robbed the design industry of a major talent.

As New copy.

File under: Alan Buchsbaum Texts by Rosalind Krauss Patricia Leigh Brown Steven Holl Michael Sorkin Stephen Tilly Monacelli Press / New York Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism
Edited by Constance Kimmerle

2014, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 216 pages, 31 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Arnoldsche / Stuttgart

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Published in 2014 and quickly out-of-print, Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism is the first comprehensive monograph published by Arnoldsche in Stuttgart on the occasion of the first comprehensive survey of American artist Paul Evans’s work held at the Cranbrook Museum, documenting Evans’s role in the midcentury American studio furniture movement, his approach to furniture as sculpture and abstract composition, and his unremitting new approaches to metal.

Creating furniture as sculpture, defined by abstract composition, designer-craftsman Paul Evans (1931—1987) consistently pushed boundaries with his innovative approaches to metal work and furniture-making, his designs revealing the fascinating juxtaposition of sculpture and design. Constantly experimenting with traditional and synthetic materials while also borrowing techniques from industrial manufacturing, Evans and his shop workers invested their furniture with an expressiveness that is quite distinctive in the realms of traditional craft and design.

Constance Kimmerle has been Curator of Collections at the James A. Michener Art Museum since 2001, where she has curated exhibitions on the work of impressionist Edward W. Redfield (2004) and modernist artist Elsie Driggs (2007).

File under: Paul Evans Arnoldsche / Stuttgart Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation Architecture / Interior

Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
by Cornelius Cardew

1974, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 125 pages, 22 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Latimer / London

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Rare very first 1974 hardcover edition of Stockhausen Serves Imperialism by Cornelius Cardew, published by Latimer, London.

The American composer and writer John Cage, born 1912, and the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, born 1928, have emerged as the leading figures of the bourgeois musical avant-garde. They are ripe for criticism. The grounds for launching an attack against them are twofold: first to isolate them from their respective schools and thus release a number of younger composers from their domination and encourage these to turn their attention to the problems of serving the working people, and second, to puncture the illusion that the bourgeoisie is still capable of producing “geniuses.” —Cornelius Cardew

Originally published in 1974, Stockhausen Serves Imperialism is a collection of essays by the English composer Cornelius Cardew that provides a Marxist critique of two of the more revered avant-garde composers of the post-war era: Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.

A former assistant to Stockhausen and a champion of Cage in England, Cardew provides a cutting rebuke of the composers’ works and ideological positions, which he saw as reinforcing an imperialist order rather than spotlighting and serving the struggles of the working class. The author also provides constructive criticism of his contemporaries Christian Wolff and Frederic Rzewski for utilizing politically progressive content, yet failing to work in a musical form that would appeal to the proletariat. Cardew’s music does not escape his own scrutiny: the book contains critiques and repudiations of his canonical compositions from the 1960s and early 1970s, Treatise and The Great Learning. After abandoning the avant-garde, Cardew devoted his work to the people’s struggle, creating music in service of his radical politics until his mysterious death in 1981.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket. Light tanning to jacket, internally tanned due to paper type. Beautifully preserved unread copy.

File under: Cornelius Cardew Karlheinz Stockhausen Scratch Orchestra Latimer / London Sound / Music Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Art

Jean-Michel Frank: The Strange and Subtle Luxury of the Parisian Haute-Monde in the Art Deco Period
by Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier

2008, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 400 pages, 31.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Rizzoli / New York

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Rare first English hardcover edition of the immediately out-of-print, immediately collectible and invaluable monograph on visionary modern French designer Jean-Michel Frank, published by Rizzoli in 2008 after he original French edition by Norma in 2006. A beautifully printed hardcover book in original publisher's illustrated dust-jacket, profusely and lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w with hundreds of photographs including vintage shots of room settings and individual pieces. Preface by Bruno Foucart. Foreword by Alice Frank. Bibliography.

This monograph, now very scarce in English, examines both his life and work as a furniture and interior designer, and remains the key work on Frank.

"I wish one could more often see artists collaborating in arranging houses," said Frank, who admired the sets masterminded by the ballet impresario Sergey Diaghilev in conjunction with Picasso, Braque, Derain and Matisse. "The result would be, at the very least, something of our time, and alive."

Jean-Michel Frank (1895–1941) was perhaps the most influential Parisian designer and decorator of the 1930s and 1940s, a refugee desolated by the Nazi occupation of France who had a short and tragic life which ended in suicide in 1941. Frank established his reputation and signature look with his 1926–27 design for Marie-Laure and Charles de Noailles's hôtel particulier at 11 place des Etats-Unis in Paris. Man Ray's black-and-white images of the salon have become shorthand for le style Frank. The Noailles were leading progressives of their day and patrons of the major painters of Paris. Frank's style of understated luxury, vellum-sheathed walls, bleached leather, lacquer, quartz and shagreen perfectly complemented the Picassos and Braques on the walls. He collaborated with the artist Christian Bérard, the brothers Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Dali, and the architect-designer Emilio Terry. Frank's blocky, rectangular club chairs and sofas have been endlessly copied and produced by many admirers. He is credited for the design of the modern Parsons table, a stark form that Frank embellished with the most luxurious finish. His style continues to exert its influence through the powerful combination of the simplest forms and the most exquisite materials to produce objects that are truly noble and utterly modern. This book is a testimony to Frank's rigour and the timelessness of his design.

Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier is a noted art historian based in Paris whose specialty is twentieth-century applied arts. He is a frequent contributor to leading French publications including Connaissance des arts and Maison francaise.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Jean-Michel Frank Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier Bruno Foucart Alice Frank Rizzoli / New York Furniture Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Art Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Minimal Art

Purple Stars
Edited by Makoto Ohrui, Elein Fleiss and Oliver Zahm

2002, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 96 pages, 17 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Purple Books / Paris Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

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First and only edition of Purple Stars, a collection of portraits and fashion photographs of the stars of Purple magazine during those early definitive years of 90's anti-fashion and the establishment of one of the most important fashion magazines of our generation. Edited by Makoto Ohrui, Elein Fleiss and Oliver Zahm and published in Japan in 2002 by Purple Books & Fiction Inc, Purple Stars features the photography of Mark Borthwick, Juergen Teller, Camille Vivier, Wolfgang Tillmans, Laetitia Benat, Anders Edström, Takashi Homma, Jack Pierson, Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm, Richard Prince, Giasco Bertoli, Alex Antitch, Patterson Beckwith, Terry Richardson, Henry Roy, Vanina Sorrenti, Chikashi Suzuki, Mauricio Guillen, Marcelo Krasilcic, Serge Leblon, Armin Linke... with photographs of Hélène Fillières, Catherine Deneuve, Jutta Koether, Lou Doillon, Kim Gordon, Harmony Korine, Alex Bag, Kate Moss, Rita Ackermann, Colin de Land, Chloë Sevigny, Brad Pitt, Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Camille Vivier, Cerith Wyn Evens, Yoshimi, Yukinori Maeda, Alexandra Bircken, Lizzie Bougatsos, Maurizio Cattelan, Susan Cianciolo, Elein Fleiss, Marieke Stolk, and many more.

A now very scarce compendium of some of the most iconic photographic images direct from the early pages of Purple.

Very Good copy, lacking glassine dust wrapper.

File under: Mark Borthwick Juergen Teller Camille Vivier Wolfgang Tillmans Laetitia Benat Anders Edström Takashi Homma Jack Pierson Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm Richard Prince Giasco Bertoli Alex Antitch Patterson Beckwith Terry Richardson Henry Roy Vanina Sorrenti Chikashi Suzuki Mauricio Guillen Marcelo Krasilcic Serge Leblon Armin Linke Hélène Fillières Catherine Deneuve Jutta Koether Lou Doillon Kim Gordon Harmony Korine Alex Bag Kate Moss Rita Ackermann Colin de Land Chloë Sevigny Brad Pitt Charlotte Rampling Ludivine Sagnier Cerith Wyn Evens Yoshimi Yukinori Maeda Alexandra Bircken Lizzie Bougatsos Maurizio Cattelan Susan Cianciolo Marieke Stolk Makoto Ohrui Elein Fleiss Oliver Zahm Purple Books / Paris Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fashion

Pierre Molinier
by André Breton

1989, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and original plastic wrap), 80 pages, 22.8 x 16.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gakutokan / Japan

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First edition of The World of Pierre Molinier, published in 1989 in Japan. An exquisite book of Molinier's fetishistic gender-bending paintings, photomontages, and drawings, fittingly wrapped in "stocking" dust jacket, with texts by André Breton, translated from French to Japanese by Kosaku Ikuta, imagery from "Molinier" (1966) film by Raymond Borde, beautifully designed and printed in Japan where Molinier's artworks had a particular resonance.

Pierre Molinier (1900—1976) was a French painter, photographer and a forerunner of gender performance art and Body Art (Art corporel). Molinier spent much of his artistic life working in isolation in Bordeaux, exiled from local and national art scenes. Born in Agen, nothing had predestined Molinier to a life as an artist. Self-taught, from a working-class background, he followed in his father’s footsteps and started out as a house painter. He got married and had two children. Tired of his infidelities and provocative behaviour, his wife left their marital home an in 1950 and Molinier begun photographing himself seriously, staging his own death and erecting a fake gravestone proudly declaring himself ‘a man without morals’. He was thrown out of the Bordeaux Salon des Indépendants as early as 1951 amidst controversy over his orgiastic painting of the same year, Le Grand Combat. Stirring up an obsessive correspondence with the anarchic poet-founder of Surrealism, André Breton, Molinier was soon integrated into the Surrealist group with a solo exhibition at Breton’s Paris gallery in 1956. Molinier’s anti-moral project appealed to the group’s interest in repressed desires, fetishism, and the transgression of bourgeois morals. In 1959, he exhibited at the Exposition International du Surrealism in Paris. From the mid-1960s Molinier chronicled the exploration of his subconscious transsexual desires in "Cent Photographies Erotiques": graphically detailed images of pain and pleasure. Cut-up, reassembled, and manipulated, Molinier painstakingly created elaborate and sensual photomontages in which he assumed the roles of dominatrix and succuba previously taken by the women of his paintings. Either alone with doll-like mannequins or with female models such as German sadomasochist Hanel Koeck, Molinier, who considered himself fundamentally androgynous, appears as a transvestite, employing his body and that of his acquaintances to create visions of hybrid identity, where stockinged multi-limbed, multi-sexed beings imitate pagan figures, Hindu gods, and Masonic symbols, in a rejection of a Christian tradition which he argued, had repressed androgyny. Designed to shock, Molinier’s artwork represented a very intimate disclosure about his own sexual ambiguity, inviting the viewer to bring to the images his or her own response of excitement or disgust. The degree of his artistic perversity and blasphemous tendencies was deemed too much for the French cultural elite, and the man Breton dubbed the “magician of erotic art” was shunned from the art world. Molinier did not participate in the 1965 International Surrealist Exhibition. For the last 11 years of his life Molinier played out his own most profound moments in the 'theatre' of his Bordeaux 'boudoir – atelier'. He committed suicide in 1976, shooting himself with a pistol, something he had foreshadowed in his artwork, time and again. Essentially a leg fetishist, but also considering himself as a shaman, facetious and provocative, anti-bourgeois and anti-religious, Molinier enjoyed transgressing gender identification : his outstanding photographs greatly influenced the European and North American Body Art in the 1970s and continue to fascinate artists today.

Very Good copy in original plastic jacket.

File under: Pierre Molinier André Breton Raymond Borde Kosaku Ikuta Gakutokan / Japan Surrealism Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Painting Drawing Photography Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Purple Fashion No. 1
Spring / Summer 2004

2003, English
Softcover, 418 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Purple Institute / Paris

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A very rare copy of the inaugural issue of Purple Fashion, edited by Olivier Zahm, featuring Richard Prince, Bruce Benderson, Gary Indiana, Paolo Roversi, Olivier Mosset, Camille Vivier, Mark Borthwick, Pierre Bailly, Elein Fleiss, Viviane Sassen, Helmut Lang, Kerry Hallihan, Antek Walczak, Marcelo Krasilcic, Michael Lonsdale, Maison Martin Margiela, Katja Rahlwes, Niels Schumm, Dike Blair, Vava Ribeiro, Monte Hellman, Comme des Garçons, Slavoj Zizek, Balenciaga, Tony Alva, Marina Faust, Wolfgang Tillmans, Terry Richardson, Dominique Gonzales Foerster, Jeff Rian, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Anuschka Blommers, François Laruelle, Yan Céh, Issey Miyake, Rick Owens, Susan Eldridge, John Galliano, Ann Demeuelemeester, Vava Ribeiro, Serge Leblon, Hiromix, Cecile Bortoletti, Vanessa Bruno, Takashi Suzuki, Miltos Manetas, Pascale Gatzen, Stéphanie Moisdon, Junya Watanabe, Ferdinand Gouzon, and many more...

In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.

Very Good copy, some light wear to spine and extremities.

File under: Comme des Garçons Richard Prince Paolo Roversi Olivier Mosset Camille Vivier Mark Borthwick Helmut Lang Pierre Bailly Viviane Sassen Kerry Hallihan Antek Walczak Marcelo Krasilcic Michael Lonsdale Katja Rahlwes Niels Schumm Dike Blair Junya Watanabe Maison Martin Margiela Balenciaga Tony Alva Marina Faust Wolfgang Tillmans Terry Richardson Dominique Gonzales Foerster Jeff Rian Noritoshi Hirakawa Anuschka Blommers Issey Miyake Rick Owens John Galliano Ann Demeuelemeester Serge Leblon Hiromix Miltos Manetas Pascale Gatzen Vava Ribeiro Olivier Zahm Bruce Benderson Gary Indiana Pascale Gatzen Elein Fleiss Vava Ribeiro Monte Hellman Comme des Garçons Slavoj Zizek Balenciaga Tony Alva Marina Faust Wolfgang Tillmans Terry Richardson Dominique Gonzales Foerster Jeff Rian Noritoshi Hirakawa Anuschka Blommers François Laruelle Yan Céh Issey Miyake Rick Owens Susan Eldridge John Galliano Ann Demeuelemeester Serge Leblon Hiromix Cecile Bortoletti Vanessa Bruno Takashi Suzuki Miltos Manetas Stéphanie Moisdon Purple Institute / Paris Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fashion Art Painting Photography Architecture / Interior Fiction / Poetry

Purple No. 8
Summer 2001

2001, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 27 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Purple Institute / Paris

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A very rare copy of the eighth issue of Purple, edited by Olivier Zahm, art directed by Makoto Ohru, featuring Chiara Mastroianni on the cover. One of the best issues, featuring Mark Borthwick, Roe thridge, Richard Kern, Katja Rahlwes, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Chloë Sevigny, Henry Roy, Colin de Land, Bruce Benderson, Anders Edström, Jutta Koether, Kate Moss, Maison Martin Margiela, Takashi Homma, Chloë Sevigny, Kim Gordon, Antek Walczak, Hermés, Masafumi Sanai, Dike Blair, Comme des Garçons, Balenciaga, Nakako Hayashi, Jeff Rian, Dominique Gonzales Foerster, Bless, Experimental Jetset, Bob Nickas, Ann Demeuelemeester, Claude Closky, Kyoji Takahashi, Michael Smith, Matt Sweeney, John Kelsey, Helmut Lang, Bennett Simpson, Gareth James, Miu Miu, Vanina Sorrenti, Cedrick Eymenier, Andreas Larsson, Mark Kingwell, Bernard Joisten, Laetitia Benat, Anaïd Demir, Costume National, Michel Sumpf, Alex Antitch, Giasco Bertoli, Jeremy Blake, Ola Rindal, and many more....

In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.

Very Good copy.

File under: Makoto Ohrui Olivier Zahm Mark Borthwick Roe thridge Richard Kern Katja Rahlwes Terry Richardson Wolfgang Tillmans Chloë Sevigny Henry Roy Colin de Land Bruce Benderson Anders Edström Jutta Koether Kate Moss Maison Martin Margiela Takashi Homma Kim Gordon Antek Walczak Hermés Masafumi Sanai Dike Blair Comme des Garçons Balenciaga Nakako Hayashi Jeff Rian Dominique Gonzales Foerster Bless Experimental Jetset Bob Nickas Ann Demeuelemeester Claude Closky Kyoji Takahashi Michael Smith Matt Sweeney John Kelsey Helmut Lang Bennett Simpson Gareth James Miu Miu Vanina Sorrenti Cedrick Eymenier Andreas Larsson Mark Kingwell Bernard Joisten Laetitia Benat Anaïd Demir Costume National Michel Sumpf Alex Antitch Giasco Bertoli Jeremy Blake Ola Rindal Olivier Zahm Purple Institute / Paris Periodicals Fashion Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art Eros Theory / Essay Sound / Music Fiction / Poetry

Black Magazine No. 1
May 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 160 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$80.00 - In stock -

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Rare first May 1971 (w. Ken Katayama cover) issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

This scarce first issue with incredible cover by Japanese illustrator Ken Katayama, features work/contributions by author Izumi Suzuki, film director Michio Okabe, artist Genpei Akasegawa, critic Junzo Ishiko, author Boris Vian, film director Eiichi Uchida, film critic Jin'ichi Uekusa, manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori, author Mieko Kanai, music critic Masaaki Hiraoka, artist Koichi Tanigawa, manga artist Shigeru Sugiura, graphic designer Mad Amano, doll artist Shimon Yotsuya, illustrator G. Akechi, art critic Junzo Ishiko, art critic Yoshida Yoshie, film director Toshio Matsumoto, graphic artist Keiichi Tanaami, author Koji Suzuki, artist Toshio Saeki, manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, manga artist Mori Masaki, manga artist Mitsuhiko Yoshida, artist Tsunehisa Kimura, playwright Jūrō Kara, and many more.

File under: Genpei Akasegawa Michio Okabe Ken Katayama Mieko Kanai Masaaki Hiraoka Koichi Tanigawa Eiichi Uchida Keiichi Tanaami G. Akechi Shimon Yotsuya Toshio Matsumoto Toshio Saeki Shigeru Mizuki Mori Masaki Tsunehisa Kimura Satomi Nihongi Jin'ichi Uekusa Junzo Ishiko Yukio Mishima Izumi Suzuki Boris Vian Koji Suzuki Yoshida Yoshie Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Eros Art Fiction / Poetry Surrealism Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Film / Video Japanese Photography Occult / Esoterica Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Poetry Theory / Essay Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction LGBTQ+ Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Drugs / Psychedelia Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Black Magazine No. 2
June 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 160 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$70.00 - In stock -

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June 1971 issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Japanese Photography Photography Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry LGBTQ+ Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Pop Art Surrealism Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Black Magazine No. 3
July 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 160 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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July 1971 (w. Simon Yotsuya cover) issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

This third issue, themed "Heaven and Hell", features incredible cover by renowned Japanese doll artist (and female doll actor) Simon Yotsuya, and contributions by ero guro master Toshio Saeki, artist Genpei Akasegawa, art critic Junzo Ishiko, "Funeral Parade of Roses" director Toshio Matsumoto, Butoh dancer Natsu Nakajima, poet and critic Akiko Baba, photographer Masatoshi Naitō, manga artist Ryuzan Aki, literary critic Katsutarō Isogai, illustrator Akechi Goro, writer Masaki Umehara, author Utagawa Taiga, literary critic Nobuo Kasahara, essayist Shinichi Kusamori, critic Hidetomo Kanaoka, illustrator (Flower Travellin' Band) Shinobu Ishimaru, manga artist Shigeru Sugiura, scholar Aoi Suenaga, artist Takahashi Shōtei, illustrator Yosuke Inoue, and many more. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Simon Yotsuya Toshio Saeki Genpei Akasegawa Toshio Matsumoto Masatoshi Naito Brassaï Shigeru Sugiura Akechi Goro Yosuke Inoue Satomi Nihongi Junzo Ishiko Akiko Baba Katsutarō Isogai Shinichi Kusamori Utagawa Taiga Nobuo Kasahara Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Occult / Esoterica Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Surrealism Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy Photography Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Film / Video

Black Magazine No. 4
August 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 156 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$70.00 - In stock -

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August 1971 (w. Hiroshi Nakamura cover) issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Hiroshi Nakamura Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Transgressive / Visceral / Abject LGBTQ+ Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Japanese Photography Photography Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry

Black Magazine No. 5
September 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 156 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$60.00 - In stock -

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September 1971 (w. Seiichi Hayashi cover) issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Seiichi Hayashi Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia Counterculture Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Surrealism Japanese Photography Photography Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Black Magazine No. 7
November 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 156 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$80.00 - In stock -

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November 1971 (w. Kikuji Yamashita cover) issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Keiichi Tanaami Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Japanese Photography Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Counterculture Surrealism Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction LGBTQ+ Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fiction / Poetry

Black Magazine No. 10
January 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 156 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$60.00 - In stock -

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January 1971 issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Art Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Fetishism / BDSM Fiction / Poetry Japanese Photography LGBTQ+ Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Occult / Esoterica Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Poetry Surrealism Theory / Essay Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Film / Video

Black Magazine No. 6
October 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 156 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$60.00 - In stock -

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October 1971 issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Eros Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Japanese Photography Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject LGBTQ+ Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Surrealism Art Counterculture Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Drugs / Psychedelia Fetishism / BDSM

Black Magazine No. 13
April 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 156 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$60.00 - In stock -

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April 1971 issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Surrealism Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Japanese Photography Photography Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture LGBTQ+ Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Black Magazine No. 16
July 1972

1972, Japanese
Softcover, 122 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$60.00 - In stock -

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July 1972 issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Paul Delvaux Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction LGBTQ+ Art Surrealism Japanese Photography Photography Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Fetishism / BDSM Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Black Magazine No. 14
May 1972

1972, Japanese
Softcover, 122 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$60.00 - In stock -

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May 1972 issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Surrealism Film / Video Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia Occult / Esoterica Counterculture Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Fetishism / BDSM Art

Black Magazine No. 17
August 1971

1972, Japanese
Softcover, 122 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$60.00 - In stock -

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August 1971 issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Satomi Nihongi Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Surrealism Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Art Japanese Photography Photography Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Counterculture Film / Video Fetishism / BDSM

Black Magazine No. 18
September 1972

1972, Japanese
Softcover, 122 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Lemon Inc. / Tokyo

$50.00 - In stock -

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September 1972 (with cover by Aoi Fujimoto) issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a taboo-shattering vehicle of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue, "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", was a who's who of non-conformity, introducing a new wave of illustrators, painters, doll-makers and photographers, "taboo" sexuality and fetish culture, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, radical criticism, queer poetry, activism, black humour, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, new and historical. Black Magazine featured the work of Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki, Izumi Suzuki, Simon Yotsuya, Shūji Terayama, Ken Katayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Genpei Akasegawa, Keiichi Tanaami, Kikuji Yamashita, Aoi Fujimoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Nakamura, and so many others. It was also where Japanese photographer Satomi Nihongi's Tokyo Transgender photographs were first printed. Black Magazine was heavy with queer and trans content, and Nihongi's "The Most Beautifuls" was a regular photo-feature in its pages. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!

File under: Franz von Bayros Tomi Ungerer Aoi Fujimoto Satomi Nihongi Lemon Inc. / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Photography Japanese Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia Surrealism

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