World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
2014, Japanese / English
Hardcover (w. postcard), 96 pages, 15 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Atelier Third / Tokyo
$80.00 - In stock -
First hardcover edition of 'Le Principe de la Constitution' by Yoshifumi Hayashi, published in 2014 and now out-of-print. ‘Eroticism is to establish order, or in other words the principle of constitution, and not to destroy’ Yoshifumi Hayashi says. This latest collection of self-taught Hayashi's masterfully rendered obsessive visions of grotesque, disembodied eroticism continue his unique and highly original exploration of graphic art. Profusely illustrated throughout, this book follows-on from the comprehensive "La Jeune Marieè d'un Materialiste Enceinte de Cerveaux" monograph (mid 1970s-mid 1990s) illustrating Hayashi's pencil work throughout the 2000s. Includes a very rare essay by Hayashi, who first studied philosophy, discussing his theories about science and eros, tracing his childhood interest in astronomy through to his understanding of eroticism through dynamics.
Contemporary Japanese erotic artist Yoshifumi Hayashi (b. 1948, Fukuoka, Japan) dropped out of Chuo University Department of Philosophy in 1972, moving to Paris in 1974, where he began to produce pencil drawings through self study. At first his main influence was the metaphysical world of De Chirico, but soon his focus shifted to the lower half of the female anatomy. Exhibiting and publishing his drawings in France in the late 1970's, Hayashi gained a cult following for his dark explorations of fetishized female physiology and mutating genitalia, rendered masterfully in pencil. Often mentioned in relation to the likes of Hans Bellmer, H.R. Giger, and even David Cronenberg, Hayashi's drawings were featured in specialist fetish magazines, and director Walerian Borowczyk even made a film in 1980 of the artist at work, yet still little is known about Hayashi, who continues to work and exhibit internationally.
As New copy including Hayashi promotional postcard.
2023, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 20.83 x 13.72 cm
Published by
Verso / London
$45.00 - Out of stock
First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for painting.
Preface by T. J. Clark
Edited by Alessandro Giammei and Ara H Merjian
One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist, and political martyr. He was also a keen critic of painting. An intermittently practicing artist in his own right, Pasolini studied under the distinguished art historian Roberto Longhi, whose lessons marked a life-long affinity for figurative painting and its centrality to a particular cinematic sensibility.
Pasolini set out wilfully to "contaminate" art criticism with semiotics, dialectology, and film theory, penning catalogue essays and exhibition reviews alongside poems, autobiographical meditations, and public lectures on painting. His fiercely idiosyncratic blend of Communism and classicism, localism and civic universalism, iconophilia and aesthetic "heresy," animated and antagonized Cold War culture like few European contemporaries. This book offers numerous texts previously available only in Italian, each accompanied by an editorial note elucidating its place in the tumultuous context of post-war Italian culture.
Prefaced by the renowned art historian T.J. Clark, a historical essay on Pasolini's radical aesthetics anchors the anthology. One hundred years after his birth, Heretical Aesthetics sheds light on one of the most consequential aspects of Pasolini's intellectual life, further illuminating a vast cinematic and poetic corpus along the way.
"Vision in Pasolini is at once tactile, earthy, erotic, divine and communist. His way of seeing communes with the world rather than holding it at a distance. By bringing together his writings on art, Heretical Aesthetics gives the Anglophone reader the key to his at once singular and generous cinema and poetry. His is a perspective from elsewhere in history, one which holds our own times sternly to account. This is such a good book for understanding one of the very best of 'bad' Marxists."—T.J. Clark
"Magisterially translated and edited, this indispensable anthology is finally available to an English-speaking audience. It provides detailed and precise insight into Pasolini's convulsive and idiosyncratic relationship with the visual arts and the artists who inspired his aesthetic sense. This exhilarating trove sheds light on the contaminated and visionary visual landscape produced by one of the most important filmmakers in the history of cinema: a total artist who found expressive depth in the heretical forms of his vision."—Pierpaolo Antonello
"Pasolini's intimate relation to painting and the history of art demonstrated in these essays is a revelation, especially for understanding his films. The texts are classic Pasolini - unfailingly brilliant and erudite, but also at once revolutionary and reactionary, observant of his times and blind to some of the most innovative developments. A fascinating collection."—Michael Hardt, author of The Subversive Seventies
2014, English
Softcover, 268 pages, 15 x 22.6 cm
Published by
re.press / Prahran
$40.00 - In stock -
At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, Cyclonopedia is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges the appalling vistas of contemporary world politics and the War on Terror with the archaeologies of the Middle East and the natural history of the Earth itself. Cyclonopedia is a Middle Eastern Odyssey, populated by archaeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta Force officers, heresiarchs, corpses of ancient gods and other puppets. The journey to the Underworld begins with petroleum basins and the rotting Sun, continuing along the tentacled pipelines of oil, and at last unfolding in the desert, where monotheism meets the Earth's tarry dreams of insurrection against the Sun.
2024, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 22.86 x 15.24 cm
Published by
Duke University Press / North Carolina
$49.00 - In stock -
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
2023, English
Softcover, 168 pages, 27 x 19.7 cm
Published by
Scheidegger und Spiess / Zürich
$95.00 - In stock -
Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger (1940-2014) achieved international fame in 1979 for designing the fantastic creatures and eerie environments that terrified moviegoers in Ridley Scott's science fiction film Alien. Yet before these iconic creations made him a celebrity and won him an Oscar for visual effects, Giger was already highly regarded in the international art world for his unique freehand painting style and biomechanical dreamscapes.
HR Giger The Oeuvre Before Alien 1961-1976, first published in 2007 and now becoming available again in a new edition, is the only book to date to document the artist's lesser known, but no less impressive, early work. This lavishly illustrated volume traces Giger's career from his education as an architect and industrial designer at the Zurich College of Art to the development of his ink drawing and oil painting technique and his eventual breakthrough as one of the foremost artists of the fantastic realism school.
Featuring many unpublished or rarely available early paintings and drawings, and accompanied by an essay by noted art historian Beat Stutzer, this volume juxtaposes Giger's paintings with works by his predecessors, including Ensor, Fuseli, Goya, and Piranesi. HR Giger The Oeuvre Before Alien illuminates the mind of a visual genius whose first artistic experiments were decades ahead of their time.
2024, English
Hardcover, 480 pages, 29.7 x 20 cm
Published by
Korm Plastics / Netherlands
$89.00 - In stock -
Edited and assembled by Kristian Olsson. Almost an encyclopedia of esoteric knowledge, dark music and arts and much beyond! Book-format publication dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, esoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic collages, oneiric musings, outlaw occultism, perversion, sinister arts and visual expansionism. Giftnålen is the foul arts journal for death-obsessed brutes and society’s outcasts. Revel in amoral excesses through 480 pages. Sit back and enjoy reading while this world burns. A total derangement of the senses. Heavily illustrated with tons of exclusive and rarely seen material.
Harking back to the days of the late 1980s-early 1990s in terms of diversity of content, drawing inspiration from underground books & publications such as Amok, Esoterra, Exit, Force Mental, Pandemonium, Rapid Eye Movement, Svarta Fanor and so on. Giftnålen takes it next level and further into unknown territory.
Including passages, large or brief, dealing with:
Sigvard Nilsson Thurneman & Den Magiska Cirkeln, ”Thurneman & Liemannen from the perspective of a LHP initiate” by Johannes Kvarnbrink, “The Vultures of Sala”, Georges Bataille & the Acephale society, ”Death and Night and Blood: Yukio Mishima & the Asceticism of Japanese Death-Aesthetics”, ”Hatets sånger” by Leon Larsson, ”Hyoscyamus Nigredo: From Silver Into Lead”, “Manhunter: Thurneman – Occultist & Serial Killer” by Wulvaricht, ”The Devil in Delgada: The Strange & Unusual Lives of Johnny Bode & Tom Zacharias”, ”11.000 Days in Säter: Från Dårhus till Bårhus”, ”The Sense of Bel-Longing” poem by Julian Theurgen, “The Thurneman improvisations” by Sten Röse, “Sigvards sterbthaler”, ”The Triumph of Death” by Alberto Caraco, SalaSatanskin, Judas Ekholm, ”The Poisonous Needle: Esoterrorist Credo of the Sinister Outlaw”, ”Salaligan: Tools of the Trade”, melancholia, Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan over a hundred years, De Strigmagarum Daemonique Mirandis, ”The Curse of the Third Eye”, ”Fem-femmornas fotbollsmatch: criminal all-stars Thurneman, Salaligan & Johnny Bode teaming up against the screws at the Långholmen prison”, Tillbergamördaren, Renzo Novatore, ”Teurgisk Terrortantra: Photos by MalFiore di Fiele & Frida Ghiozzi (Omega Kunst)”, ”The Poetic Tradition of Swedish Melancholia: A Portrayal of Dismal & Unfortunate Death-seekers in the ruinous Land of the Midnight Sun”, Nattmaran, ”Lasse Lucidor – the Unfortunate: Rusets och ruelsens skald”, Erik Johan Stagnelius – Dweller in the Arms of Putrefaction, Plato, Dante, ”Iatromantis: To Die Before You Die”, Meister Eckhart, Parmenides, the Upanishads, Djävulsbrand, Styggen, underworldly descent, Peter Kingsley, ”Avfyrning!”, Ecstasies, The Death Principle, ”Henbane: Saturnalia Poison” & ”A Woodland Sitting” by Sentinessence, ”The Linkola Legacy”, Apocalypse Culture, Deep Ecology, Oscar Wilde, Max Stirner, Ingmar Bergman, Albert Camus, ”Killing Cults & Their Slaves” reflections by Charles Manson (exclusive text submitted by ATWA/ATWAR), “Red & Blue”, ”Ashen Synchronicities”, haruspex of criminal gnosis, ”Meeting with a Remarkable Man: An Interview with Nikolas Schreck”, Spiritual Warriorhood in the Age of Dissolution, Initiatory Mysteries in the Temples of Karnak, The Faustian Quest, Charlatans of Occulture, Vama Marg, Esoteric Tantric Buddhism, The Three Poisons, Solitude & Subtraction, The Process Church of Final Judgement, Scientology, ”Counter-Culture”: A Fly Entangled in the Webs of Maya, luddite poetry, The Manson-File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman, Eros & Thanatos, Storms of Sethian Liberation, ”Abraxas & His Mysteries: The Forgotten God & the Hidden Nature of Reality”, Abraxas in Hesse’s ”Demian”, extract from ”Opposition is True Friendship” – Karl NE on Abrades, D.H. Lawrence ”Taos”, The Abraxas Foundation, Michael Moynihan, Boyd Rice, ”Monarchie Infernale: The Occult History of the Royal Court and the Aristocratic Elite in Sweden during the Gustavian Era”, ”Of Blind Men & Occult Forces”, Blutleuchte, “The Hearts of Kings” Ajna Offensive, Descent magazine, Lightbringers of the North, Gustav Biörnram – necromancer of the Swedish king Gustav III, The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, ”Nekromantiens: Riter vid Sankt Johannes Kyrkogård”, Andrew Chumbley, Algolagonia, The Malleus Maleficarum: Europe Overshadowed by the Hammer of Witches, The Gates of Hell Opening in Copenhagen, La sorcière, ”Method for Achieving Communication with Spirits” translated notes from the necromantic conjurations of Gustaf Björnram, ”Carl August Ehrensvärd & Den Esoteriska Kretsen: Eleusinian Mysteries & Orphic Hymns in the Mythological Labyrinth”, Gottfried Benn, ”The Mystical Signatures of Adolph Falkenberg”, Gustaf Adolf Reutersholm, Den Esoteriska Kretsen, Sophia Perennis, René Guenon, J.W. von Goethe, Oswald Spengler, ”Death to those who seek false comforts” by Erica Frevel, ”In the Midst of Life, We are in Death”, ”Riddles of the Sevenfold Way”, Anton Long, Algernon Blackwood, ”The Man Whom the Trees Loved”, Richard Moult, Michael Morthwork,”The Ordeal of the Abyss: Interview with Christos Beest”, ”From Ancient Gods into New Devils”, Wotan, self-sacrificial offerings, burial traditions, black magic rites, C.S. Lewis, Guido Cernonetti, Man Ray, BDSM, Aldous Huxley, Octave Mirabeau, Ambrose Bierce, G.I. Gurdjieff, King Gustav III, ”Ernst Wagner against the degenerate world”, ”Liber Nigri Peregrinationis: The Black Pilgrimage to Chorazaim & the Crossing of the Abyss”, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, L. Ron Hubbard, Leonora Carrington, the scholia of Nicolas Gomez Davila, Arcana Europa, Ignus Fatuus: Irrlicht, The Lunar Accomplice”, Shintoism, ”Mount Analogue & the Dark Night of the Soul”, René Daumal, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, G.I. Gurdjieff, Saint John of the Cross, ”Behold… the Blood of the Moon”, Mircea Eliade, ”Det Sjunde Inseglet: Procession Scene”, ”H.P. Lovecraft – A Comrade of the Wolves & Rider of Nightmares”, Alain Robbe-Grillet, ”Mysterium Tremendum: An interview with Carl Nordblom”, “Det skälvande mysteriet”, infernal pacts, criminal gangs of Sweden, secret brotherhoods, the UR Group, Ezra Pound, August Strindberg, from “On the Heights of Despair” by Emil Cioran, self-transformation, Hanon-Tramp, Henri Fuseli, ”The Dawning New Days of Defeat”, Hagakure, ”Mishima on Death in the Modern Age”, Ba Ra Ken: Ordeal of Roses, Eino Leino, Ulrike Meinhof, Holger Meins, “Bo Ignatius Cavefors landstigen på Dödens ö”, Alexandra David-Neel, Janne Bergquist: an open cancerous wound on the body of society, Autonomisk Manual, Kenneth Anger, Sir Augen Goosens, the Anarchs-Futurist Manifesto, Ernest Coeurderoy, the Kindred of the Kibbo Gift, Antonin Artaud, Marquis de Sade, Set Teitan, Paul Verlaine, Guido von List, The Rise and Fall of Hanussen – Occult superstar of the Interwar Period: Charlatan from the Finee Salons of Berlin to Feeding a Family of Badgers, Zos Kia, Paul Wegener, ritual bloodletting, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Christos Beest, Carl von Linné, Boyd Rice, Nikanor Teratologen, Melek Taus of Holland, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, Mensur scarification – A Rite of Passage in 20th century Europe, yoga practices with Che Guevara, ”Frank Braun: Devil hunter or doppelgänger?”, Blood mysticism & Teutonic Vampirism, Viktor Rydberg on the Mandragora, ”The Curse of Nosferatu: Fraternitas Saturni’s Master Pacitus & Prana Film”, Ernst Jünger ”Sicilian Letter to the Man in the Moon”, ”Female nomad decadents of the Ferkel Circle”, Frida Uhl, F.T. Marinetti, ”Blast of the Vortex Campaign: Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats & Wyndham Lewis”, Vienna Actionism, Odd Nerdrum, Andreas Baader, Night of Death in Stammheim, Liesmac of the Deverills, Ola Hansson: Pariah among outcasts, Edward Munch, Martin Heidegger, Jean Genet, insurrection, suicide as an ultimate revolutionary act, Peryt Schou & the Awakening of the Logos, Arte de Maleficium: Works of Art as Regicide, Gustav Meyrink, Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald – Alraune des Jugendstils, Stefan Eggier, Mahlon Blair, Karl Hans Strobl, Degenerate Germany: Perversion for Profit in the Weimar Republic, Human Sacrifice at the Magic Island Haiti, ”William Buehler Seabrook: Transcending All Transgressions”, sadomasochism, tantric masters, ”Three Tongue-less Mouths” by C. Nordblom, Maya Deren, ”The Sacred as Transgression: Roger Callois”, ”Lupercalia to Liberalia: An Extract from The Antichrist Phallus” & ”The Rustic Rite of the Wolf-Owl” by Wyrd Isle Collective, ”Grave-robbing in the Towers of Silence with Sven Hedin”, “Disciples of ‘Bone: The Dispossessed Sons of Albion”, Citipati and Kangling, ”The Minstrels of Misrule”, the Green Man, ”Mythos of Masked Gods and Mummering Men”, Kenneth Grant, Styggelser: Black Metal Abominations, Externsteine, J.G. Ballard, The Panic Movement, the Promethean flame, gnosticism, Roland Topor, Fernando Arrabal, William Ouidhuis’ Katabol, Abefko Nord: the volcanic island Alnö, Saint Antonius, the werewolf in Scandinavian mythology, Perun, the Cult of Dionysos, ”Apocalyptic Collisions of Tradition & Modernity in a Perpetual Dark Age”, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic, Foucault, Fulcanelli & the Mystery of the Cathedrals, ”Play the King for a day…”, ”Rex Nemorensis: The Killing of the Divine King”, The Golden Bough, The Cultural Terrorist Manifesto, Sturm und Drang, tjyvheder, prison life, mythopoetic imagination, Carl Larsson’s “Midvinterblot”, Gösta Werner’s “Midvinterblot”, the cult of Frö, Nordic death cults, Lucia – Progenitress of Demonic Entities, álfar, ”Narcocultura Necromanteia: Criminal Devotees among the Cult of the Holy Death”, Liber Falxifer, Necrosophy, Santa Muerte / San La Muerte, Nyhamnskifte, In the Hoofprints of the Nordic Devil, The Thirteenth School and the Black Priests of Satan, Carl Gustav Jung & the Shadow, Herr Ola i Trång & Gammal-Sjul, Kyrkogrim, Kvick i jord, Created from the Shadow of God, Svartkonst: Nordic necromancy & nigromancy, Hultkläppen, the Hand of Glory, Tjuvljus, The Spiritus Familiaris & the Arcanum of Human Blood, do-it-yourself instructions for the making of ”bjäran”, Paracelsus, ”Den Ryktbara Trollpackan Kapten Elins förmenta resor till Blåkulla och Bekantskap med Djefwulen”, Hyltén-Cavallius ”Wärend och Wirdarne”, småfiffel, The Arcane and Forbidden Wisdom of Nordic Sorcery found in the Scandinavian books of the black arts, rare archive photographs of Nordic sorcerers and witches, Sanguine Vociferation, Ichor, Aztec blood rituals, Vampirism at the Execution site, Red & White: Shakti & Shiva, menstrual blood magic, Significance of “Red / Blue / Purple Wings” to the 1%er, Mandragora Officinarum, “Stä blod”, Aristocracy of the Soul: the warrior poet Gabrielle D’Annunzio, the anarchic republic of Fiume, Kapala & Damaru, ”Pierre Drieu la Rochelle: Drawn Towards Death Like a Moth Towards the Flame”, cyanide, Chhinnamasta: Acephalic Goddess of Paradoxes, Tantric graveyard meditations, ”Åderlåtning & blodmat”, Doktor Mabuse, Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Macabre Ritual Feasts of Freemasonry, Consanguinity, Offerings to the Dark Gods, the Necromancy of Erichto, Nikanor Teratologen: Dissekerande definitioner, Frithjof Schoun, female domination, Hermann Hesse, Dalai Lama, Miguel Serrano, Mithraic mysteries, Apolitea, ”Saint Sebastian: The Twice Martyred”, The Pagan Ways of emperor Diocletian, Aum: Suck on Sarin, The Electronic Revolution, Word Virus, cultural terrorism, artificial intelligence, psychoactive plants, Cimicidäemones: Bedbugs making your deathbed, ångerstål, vådastål, Nordic Sorcery, Demons of the Flesh, Gamen, opium dreams, godetia, demonomania, simulacra, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, Ned Ludd, MK Ultra, Jünger’s “Psykonauterna” & “Visit to Godenholm”, Executioners swords towards Externsteine, Herman Wirth, Pervitin, perversion, murder weapons & tools of self-wasters as magic objects, borrowing bones from the dead, the Witch of Endor, “Omne malum ab Aquilone: All Malice travels with the North Wind”, The Wild Hunt, the Nine Galder songs, Gullveig / Heid, Canon episcopi, The Death-Horse of Horatius, Donar’s Oak, Ulvhednar, varg-i-veum, Vánagandr, LSD-25, Psilocybe Semilanceata, instruments made from human remains, Nattmannen, rackaren, The Corpse Hounds of Hel, Hector Meinhof, brewing beer on a severed human hand, the secret Vehmic courts, Barcode or Branding? Welcome idiot to the Grave New World!, Unfolding the Blood-Eagle, Metaphysics of Death, Mjältsjuka: The Black Bile, Descent into Hades, Ancient Greece, Man is a God in Ruins, leaderless resistance, Aghori devotees, Akeldama: Field of Blood, Pauper’s Graves Bonehouses as a Sanctum for Equality in Death, ”The Infernal Trinity: Reinterpreting the Sinister Imagery of the Prior Leschman Chapel” by Christopher Walton, ”Hornet och smörjan: Early Use of Psychedelic Drugs & Poisonous Plants among Witches & Sorcerers in Europe”, derangement of the senses, pitchfork-riders, fence-riders, Nordic shamanism, sabbatic craft, sublimation through filth, sacred prostitution, Jukka Siikala, dead rats, the path of Kaulamarga, ”Ecstatic Inferno Visions & Thanatomaniac Excesses: South-East Asia as seen through the feverish glass-eye of an exile-European death-seeker / The Documentary Photography of Stephen Bessac”, Hunting Asia, Deathlust, Maison Close, mondo movies, Pakito Bolino, Le Dernier Cri, Narok, Thai Buddhist hell theme parks, Asubha – meditations on the foulness of the human body, MS13, mortuary cults, Nicholas Roerich, Agni Yoga, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Tibet, Bodhisattva Maitreya, Bolshevik supersoldiers perfected through Kalachakra Tantra, ”Onwards to Shambhala: The Path towards merging with the divine fire”, the Occult Roots of Soviet, OGPU Special Department – Institute for Brain Studies & Psychic Activities, hypnosis, Barchenko, Gleb Bokii, Baron Ungern-Sternberg, the Bogd Khan, Kangchendzönga, Corto Maltese, Caucasian Ovcharkas feasting on corpses, Sven Hedin, ”Beast, Men & Gods” by Ferdinand Ossendowski, the Spear of Destiny, the Cult of the Leader & Soviet Godhood, Arctic Hysteria, pyramids near the Lake Seidozero, Yakov Blumkin, the Ancestral Research Bureau, Vril force, Odic Energy, Olaus Rudbeck & his Atlantean Uppsala, ”Among Fiddlers, Outcasts & Outlaws in Helsingia”, Karl-Max Fredrikson, the eternal return, Lim-Johan, horrid Hälsingland, Miguel Serrano, Nils-Fredrik Åkerberg & Delsboligan: ”an evil beast capable of the most heinous cruelty”, Kniven, ”Discovering a Runic Devil-Pact from the 19th Century”, the myth of Hårga, Raggare, ”Hultkläppen: A Menschenfeind in the Devil’s Service”, Pelle Schenell, Antinomian scatological tricksters – the two living legends known as ”Bajsmannen”, slagrutemän, Starsk-Pelle, Troll-Per och dömullen, det brutala Gnarp, the Nordic Yule Goat, ”Kali: The Black Mother” by Karl NE, The Art of David S. Herrerías, Karl Nachzehrer Eng – interview extract, Anckarström & the assassination of king Gustav III, freemasonry, spirit seers, Hertig Karl, Hypnosmord, ”Bones in the Wall: Enriqueta Martí – Vampire of Barcelona” by Martin Locker / Perennial Pyrenees, ”Hanns Heinz Ewers – Rider of the Germanic Nightside”, catacomb spectres, ”A Thousand Faces of Fear”, Psychonauts, smoking 77 cigarettes a day, ”The Conqueror Worm or Carrion for Worm?”, Intoxication and Art, Ewers & Alraune in Sundvall, Kristoffer Nilsson, Per Faxneld, Pan-Germanic Panic in India, Thugees, Left-Hand Path initiation, ”Bo Ignatius Cavefors – Landstigen på Dödens Ö”, Carsten Regild, Cavefors Förlag, Soma, Grymhetens Teater Dekadens, Arnold Böcklin, Infinity Land Press, Socialistische Patienten Kollektiv, Kommando Holger Meins, Odd Nerdrum, Caravaggio, the state-sanctioned murder of the Baader-Meinhof gang and their martyr hood, Christ in Gethsemane, J.H. Schönheit versus Karl XII, Oppressive Liberation Spirit – Rest in Power Sakevi Yokoyama, Self-Mortification, Ivan Agueli, Edward Munch, Arthur Moeller van der Bruck, Aleister Crowley, Thelema, Rites of the Dreamweapon: The Tremor Rite, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, Spirit Catcher, Prussian anarchists, ”Plutarchs of the Pandemic: Lords of All Fevers & Plague”, Walpurgisnacht, Ira Cohen, Brain Damage: Sorcery as an Art, PH Kerin, Marcus Hinze, Gilles de Rats, human sacrifice, Robert Nicholas Taylor, Haiti: The Magic Island, ”Chat Control”, Quimbanda, Exu, Jesus Malverde, Svartkonstböcker, skaldic mead, the Cathars, ”The Troubadour Turned Traitor: Ezra Pound”, Bhagavata Purana, Water as a Passageway into the Underworld, Sejd Laughter, the End of the World in Nordic mythology, Nastrand – the Corpse-Shore, sacred fountains, the Great Reset, hematophilia, blood play, Günter Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, guerilla tactics, The Key of Alocer, Rökkr, Cum Ingenti Priapo, pagan rites of fertility, ”The Descent of Odin” by Thomas Gray, The Galder of Death: Vallgalder, The Tree of Wyrd, ”The Nithing Pole”, land spirits, the sacrificial groves of the dead, George Sylvester Viereck, Nikola Tesla, Unamerican activities, European gothic horror literature, social credit, Daemonium Aeternus, Euronymous, Sepulchral Noise, Svarta Cirkeln, grave desecrations, death magick, Wandervögel, Emanuel Swedenborg, Julereien, De Dödas Julotta, ”Lycanthropia” by Adam Parfrey, the Equinox Event, ”On Sacrifice” by Tancredi Valeri, ”The Last Words of Louis Lingg”, Venus in Furs, Sumerian kingship, Against Control, Techniques for Cutting Up the Leviathan of Modernity, Reinventing Urban Sorcery, Subverting and Disrupting the NWO Control Mechanisms, heathen hit squads, mental illness, post-war eugenics in the Swedish demonocratic state, Trevor Brown’s Antichrist, Arturo Reghini, neo-Pythagoreanism, Bror Gadelius, complete disorientation of the senses, dissidents, heretics, deviated carnal encounters, Apotropeism, antinomianism, Guido Crepax, Alfred Kubin, Valerie der Phantasten, väggmadammer, European folklore, ”Living in the Reign of Phantoms… Saluting Death in a Rain of Bullets”, Iconoclasta, Nihilismo, Propagation by the Deed, Side Real Press, Black Widow’s Web Erotica, Michel Houllebecq, desert wanderers, Arthur Machen, Dragon Rouge, active imagination, the Revolutionary Cathechism, Devil Worship, necromantic rites, suicidal pacts, a world making its last death twitches….
SOUND:
Metgumbnerbone, The New Blockaders, Ward Phillips, Vivenza, G.I.S.M, Criminal Party, Grim, White Hospital, Basilisk, John Duncan, Paul Hurst, Beast 666 Tapes, Linekraft, LSD (Japan), John Murphy, Lily Vice & Lust Vessel, Nord, Ultra, Art Into Life, Ramleh, Sir Ashleigh Grove, Organum, Con-Dom, The Grey Wolves, Opera for Infantry, Death in June, Allerseelen, Zero Kama, Korpses Catatonic, Cthulhu Records, Masstishaddhu, SPK, Citipati, Peter Zincken, Sedayne, Nåstrond, Thurnemans, Salaligan, Klinik (the Swedish), Hyoscyamus Niger, Amebix, Hijokaidan, Irkallian Oracle, D-C Pöbeln, Brighter Death Now, Spacemen 3, Agitation Free, Mortuus, Genocide Organ, Johnny Bode, Lapp-Lisa, Tom Zacharias, Blood Axis, Blood Ov Thee Christ, Alfarmania, Masami Akita & ZSF Produkt, Tony Conrad, Tone Generator, RJF, Joy Division, Rune Lindblad, Åke Hodell, Geto Boys, Etat Brut, The Curfew Recordings, Tower Transmissions, Come Organisation, H.N.A.S, Mixed Band Philanthropist, Bladder Flask, Leif Thuresson, Galme, Asmus Tietchens, Noisextra radio show, Putrefier / Birthbiter, Die Form / Bain Total, Club Moral, Iannis Xenakis, Terry Riley, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Dadarotator, Kickback, Survival Unit, Bizarre Uproar, Striktlickers, United Dairies, Brainticket, AQM, S.K.V. Null, Premature Ejaculation, Aghast, The Folding Staircase, Monte Cazazza, Aussaat, Totalitär, Beast 666 Tapes / Hate Song, Clandestine Blaze, Vice Squad, Night Wolf, O’Nancy in French, Blod (Gnarp), Lille Roger, Missbrukarna, Samla Mammas Manna, Cromagnon, Taj Mahal Travellers, CM von Hausswolff, Leif Elggren, Coil, Citipati, Martin Bladh, Perdition Hearse, the true Mayhem, Blue Öyster Cult, Blasphemy, Sodom, Treriksröset, Proiekt Hat, Taint, Slave State, Ernte, Psychic TV, Monte Cazazza, Angus MacLise: Dreamweapon - The Ascension of Saint Angus of Kathmandu, LaMonte Young , Marian Zazeela, John Cale, The Dream Synicate / The Theatre of Eternal Music, Tony Conrad, The Velvet Underground, Corpse Molestation, Bestial Warlust, Destroyer 666, Black Hole, Mortuary Drape, Paul Chain, the Sodality, The Third Ear Band, Fata Morgana, Master’s Hammer, Hiram Gordon Wells, Vagina Dentata Organ, Unkommuniti / Black Dwarf, R&D Group 28, Throbbing Gristle, Perdition Hearse and others.
CINEMA:
Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, Invocation of My Demon-Brother, Alraune, The Student from Prague, The Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, Blood On Satan’s Claw, The Wicker Man, Roger Corman’s E.A. Poe adaptions, Eyes of Fire / Cry Blue Sky, Born of Fire, Wickedness of the Wyrdful Ways: Obscure Treasures from the Catacombs of Occult & Otherworldly Cinema, ”The Devil’s Devilry” (Ken Russell’s the Devils), Le Feu Follet, ”Folk horror – a Eurocentric phenomena?”, ”This ain’t the summer of love” – Altamont & Performance, Incubus, Right Brain Video, Junk Films – the Collected Short Shockumentaries of Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, …hanno cambiato faccia, Baba Yaga, Don’t Deliver Us From Evil, Lost Paradise: Riding Habit Harakiri, Faccia di Spia, Sukkubus – the Devil in the Body, psycho-sexual arthouse cinema of oneiromantic libertines, La sorcière, Häxan – Witchcraft through the Ages, Trans-Europe-Express, Belladonna of Sadness, L’Eden et après, Glissements progresses du plaisir, Louis Mallet, Det Sjunde Inseglet, Ingmar Bergman, Survival Research Laboratories, The Other Side of Madness, Hagazussa, A Field in England, Kill List, High Rise, Åsa-Nisse, Viva La Muerte!, Cinema as Resistance in Fascist Spain, I will walk like a crazy horse, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Who Can Kill a Child?, Last House on Dead End Street, David Cronenberg, Brion Gysin, Bizarre / The Secrets of Sex, Anthony Balch, Red Baron Entertainment, Jack Smith, Stan Brakhage, Coto de Caza, Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs, Freaks, Towers Open Fire, The Bell from Hell, The Killer of Dolls, Murder in a Blue World, Eloy de la Iglesia, Cannibal Man, the Glass Ceiling, Animales Racionales, Themroc, Beast in the Heat, Leon Klimovsky, Paul Naschy, Night of the Walpurgis, The Werewolf & the Yeti, The People Who Own the Dark, Horror Rises from the Tomb, Rebellion of the Dead, Abefko Nord, Hunchback of the Morgue, Faust: eine Deutsche Volkssage, Night of the Sorcerers, ”Shape-shifters & the Silver Globe”, Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittenbach, Andrzej Zulawski, Diabel, Possession, On the Silver Globe, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Black Sabbath, Viy, Tilbury, Rat Savior, Svesto Mesto, the New Wave of Czechoslovak Cinema, True Gore, The Cremator / Spalova mrtvol, Lars von Trier’s Riget, Valerie & Her Week of Wonders, Kurototage: Black Lizard, Afraid to Die, Móju: Blind Beast, Femina Ridens, The Rite of Love and Death, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, The Annunciation, How to Become a God, Dark Shadows, Blade Runner, Night Tide, Invocation of My Demon’s Brother, In Satan’s Name, Konstantin Sergeyevich Lopushansky, Letters from a Dead Man, Visitor to a Museum, Andrej Tarkovskij, Stalker, History of the Arkanar Massacre, Satanico Pandemonium, Alucarda, The Mansion of Madness, Lunacy, El Topo, Fando y Lis, Legend of the Witches, The Judgement of Albion, Nosferatu – eine Symphonie des Grauens, ”Arcane Incantations: The Alchemic Cinema of Pupi Avati”, Zeder, The House with the Laughing Windows, Saló – The 120 Days of Sodom, L’arcano incantatore, Arcana, Luis Buñuel, Robin Redbreast, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, True Gore, Penda’s Fen, Scum, Made in Britain, Apocalypse Now, Gösta Werner’s Midvinterblot and more beyond what the eye perceives.
The overwhelming interest in the book has resulted in the first hundred copies selling out within less than a day.
2024, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 224 x 17 cm
Published by
Korm Plastics / Netherlands
$45.00 - In stock -
English cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary interest was radical music, noise and power electronics. They first released music by label boss Gary Mundy’s project, Ramleh, but later also by Le Syndicat, MB, Controlled Bleeding, Giancarlo Toniutti and various Mundy solo projects.
Steve Underwood’s text appeared in a 2010 magazine, As Loud As Possible, but it is expanded here with additional interviews; updates; a reprint of two issues of Broken Flag’s fanzine, Even When It Makes No Sense; and reproductions of many of the label’s cassette covers.
2024, English
Softcover + anti-flexi disc, 144 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by
Korm Plastics / Netherlands
$45.00 - In stock -
‘America’s Greatest Noise’ tells the story of Ron Lessard, owner of RRRecords, a record store in Lowell, Massachusetts and, from 1986 to 2009, a record label, releasing the albums of Blackhouse, F/i, PGR, the first Merzbow LP outside Japan and many more, regional compilations, three widely acclaimed lock groove records and a series of anti-records, records with no music but a more conceptual and visual edge. RRRecords is also responsible for the RRRecycled Music series, which has over 300 releases on re-purposed cassettes. Ron Lessard played music with his group Due Process and solo as Emil Beaulieau. Up until his retirement from the noise scene in 2006, he played many concerts and released a string of cassettes, LPs, and CDs. During his concerts, Lessard dressed up like a businessman and used a four-armed turntable, dubbed the Minutoli, and his performances were comical.
In this book, he tells for the first time his story in music about the highs and lows of running a label and a record store, weird projects, unfinished projects, encounters with other musicians, being on the road, and much more. Also included are two appendices: one with interviews from the past (fanzines and websites) and a chapter from Michael Tau’s ‘Extreme Music’ about the anti-records released by RRRecords. Images used were sourced from flyers, invitations and fanzines. Introduction by Dominick Fernow (Prurient, Hospital Productions)
The first 1000 copies come with an anti-flexi, cutting up a conversation about anti-records between Ron Lessard and the author of the book, Frans de Waard. Cut up by Howard Stelzer. You may use this flexi as a bookmark.
Design by Alfred Boland.
2023, English
Softcover, 425 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by
Korm Plastics / Netherlands
$65.00 - In stock -
Published by Korm Plastics, this heavy book compendium collects all six issues of the Neumusik fanzine which David Elliott edited between 1979—82 while at university. The fanzine focussed on European, electronic and experimental music which had come out of krautrock, French progressive rock and the more esoteric side of British post-punk. David travelled extensively meeting musicians in Germany and France, and for a year was based in Strasbourg. Interviews and articles range from Conrad Schnitzler and Richard Pinhas to Florian Fricke and Chris Carter. Most issues were 60-80 pages long so, together with new text and photos, this compendium weighs in at a heavy 425 pages. It also touches on the parallel YHR label.
1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 52 pages, 30 x 21 cm
Signed by artist,
Published by
Victorian Arts Council / Victoria
$100.00 - Out of stock
Signed copy of internationally acclaimed Australian sound artist, composer, scholar and performer, Ros Bandt's rare 1985 publication Sounds in Space: Wind Chimes and Sound Sculptures, her first artist's book. A wonderful collection of the artist's photographic documents (in colour and b/w), diagrams, writings and drawings, surveying her incredible work in Sound Sculpture. Also, includes the work of many other performers and composers, reading references and discography.
"Sound sculpture is the organisation of sound in space. It is a way of thinking and working with the sounds around us. Sound sculpture is the bringing together of visual art and musical art. The fusion makes a new and exciting sound art, involving time, space, sight and sound."
Since 1977 Bandt has pioneered interactive sound installations, sound sculptures, and created sound playgrounds, spatial music systems, and some 40 sound installations worldwide. She has curated many sound performances, exhibitions and events. Her original works are recorded on New Albion Records (USA), Move Records (Melbourne), EMI/ABC, and Wergo (Germany).
Good copy with sun discolouring to spine an cover, crease to cover corner, VG throughout.
2001, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket w. audio cd), 160 pages, 27.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Fine Art Publishing / Sydney
$50.00 - Out of stock
The first major anthology of internationally acclaimed Australian sound artist, composer, scholar and performer, Ros Bandt's Sound Sculptures. Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, including many texts, drawings and diagrams, performance documentation, bibliography, chronology, and an accompanying compact disc with audio examples. Not only the work of Bandt, the entire survey incorporates the works of many of Australia' most innovative artists, including Percy Grainger, Chris Mann, Ernie Althoff, Alan Lamb, Warren Burt, and many others.
"Sound sculpture is the organisation of sound in space. It is a way of thinking and working with the sounds around us. Sound sculpture is the bringing together of visual art and musical art. The fusion makes a new and exciting sound art, involving time, space, sight and sound."
Since 1977 Bandt has pioneered interactive sound installations, sound sculptures, and created sound playgrounds, spatial music systems, and some 40 sound installations worldwide. She has curated many sound performances, exhibitions and events. Her original works are recorded on New Albion Records (USA), Move Records (Melbourne), EMI/ABC, and Wergo (Germany).
VG copy in VG dust jacket with CD.
1979, English
Softcover, 138 pages, 23.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Bill Owens / Livermore
$40.00 - In stock -
Fascinating insight to world of self-publishing photo-books c. 1979, written, designed and self-published by self-taught Californian photographer, Bill Owens, whose renowned books include Suburbia (1973), one of the 100 seminal photography books of the 20th century, Our Kind of People (1975), and Working (1977), amongst others.
"As an author of four photographic books I have felt the need to complete the photographic process by publishing my own book. I have dealt with enough publishers to know their strengths and weaknesses. I want to have control over the printing of my book and more important want to control the publicity, distribution and get a larger share of the money to be earned in publishing."
An in-depth, fully illustrated, wealth of experience shared with rare candor, documenting the entire process — the how-tos, the whys, the people, the contacts, the figures, and the impressive and insightful letters contributed by other self-publishing photographers regarding their books — Richard Misrach's debut book Telegraph 3 A.M and Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan's landmark Evidence.
Good—VG copy with some wear to the red cover edges.
2007, English
Hardcover (w/ 2 cd), 452 pages, 23 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain / Paris
Éditions Xavier Barral / Paris
$500.00 - In stock -
The first major collection of artwork by the acclaimed movie director David Lynch. Rare English-language first hardcover edition of this long out-of-print, comprehensive book, complete with double-CD accompaniment — an interview with David Lynch in which the artist provides a veritable commentary on his works.
Spanning a period of forty years, David Lynch's widely respected films and television series include Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive. However, his prolific visual art production, which began even before his films, has rarely been seen.
In 2007, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presented The Air is on Fire, an expansive retrospective exhibition portraying the multiple facets of David Lynch’s art. It was the first time that the artist exhibited such an extensive number of paintings, photographs, drawings, experimental films, and sound creations.
This lavishly illustrated, deluxe volume unveils David Lynch’s little known yet highly prolific artistic production — a reference work that covers the artist’s different fields of creation: painting, photography, drawing, and motion pictures. His visual creations are aesthetic echoes of his films that offer a new look at his work and the opportunity to plunge deeper into his personal world. Includes many texts and an interview with Lynch. The book is accompanied by the seldom present 2 x audio commentary cds.
Very Good—Near Fine copy. Only some storage buckling and a tiny bit of light wear to the lower front cover, otherwise As New and complete. This is the original printing from the museum, in the English version, scarcer still.
1983, English
Softcover (staple-bound w. program insert), unpaginated, 23 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Edwin Denby Memorial Fund / New York
$50.00 - In stock -
A rare publication privately issued by the Edwin Denby Memorial Fund, New York, on the occasion of a tribute presented by the St. Mark's Church Poetry and Danspace Projects, and the Eye and Ear Theater, Inc., in association with the Dance Collection, The New York Public Library, in November 1983, shortly after the passing of the great modern poet and dance critic. With cover artwork by Alex Katz, the book includes four poems by Edwin Denby accompanied by photographs by Rudy Burckhardt. Laid in is a program for "An Evening for Edwin Denby," Nov. 2, 1983 held at The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, including poetry readings, tributes, and dances. Participants included Bernadette Mayer, Bob Holman, Lucinda Childs, John Ashbery, Douglas Dunn, and Anne Waldman, among others. The NY Public Library tributes include speeches, films, and an exhibition of artworks, with participants inc. Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Red Grooms, Paul Taylor, John Ashbury, George Jackson, Mimi Gross, Alex Katz, Marcia Siegel, Rudy Burckhardt, Joe Brainard, and many more.
Edwin Denby (1903—1983) was a modernist poet and the most important and influential American dance critic of this century. Earning a degree in gymnastics in Vienna, his reviews and essays, which he wrote for almost thirty years, were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his subject. He was also a poet of distinction — a friend to Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and John Ashbery. Though many of his poems are sonnets, his improvisational attention to urban movement plays against the form’s constraint. He is the author of the poetry collections In Public, In Private (1948), Mediterranean Cities (1956), Snoring in New York (1974), The Complete Poems (1986), and Dance Writings and Poetry (1998). His reviews and essays on ballet appeared in Modern Music, the New York Herald Tribune, Ballet, and Dance Magazine, and he wrote two critical books on the art: Looking at the Dance (1949) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets (1965). Denby’s honors included a Guggenheim Fellowship. He died in 1983.
Good copy overall but with some bug nibbles to the front cover, light wear and tanning to extremities.
1972, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 174 pages, 24 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Neville Spearman / London
$150.00 - Out of stock
Rare, first hardcover 1972 edition of Fred Judd's classic "Electronics In Music", describing the principles behind early electronic musical instruments and synthesised sound, heavily illustrated with photographs and circuit diagrams. "Never before has the subject matter been written about so exhaustively."
Frederick Charles Judd (1914—1992) was a pioneer in British electronic music. Judd was an inventor, amateur radio operator, and proselytiser of early British electronic music, his importance hinges on a wide range of electronic activities: from his compositions, self-built synthesizer and sound visualisation system to his books, magazine articles and radio broadcasts. He was a prime mover in disseminating electronic sounds and musique concrete to the public - not just encouraging them to listen, but also to experiment with tape recorders and tone generators.
VG in G dust jacket w. price corner clip to inner flap, previous owner's name to endpaper. Well preserved copy.
2019, English
Softcover, 406 pages, 26.7 x 19 cm
Published by
Ecstatic Peace Library / New York
$95.00 - In stock -
French composer Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) was one of the progenitors of Musique concrète and a pioneer of and resolutely idiosyncratic voice within electroacoustic music. Ferrari was an early participant in the Groupe de Musique concrète and, with Pierre Schaeffer and François-Bernard Mâche co-founded the Group de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1958. Throughout his career, Ferrari worked in multiple forms: instrumental works, vocal music, text scores, electronic and electroacoustic music, Hörspiele, theatre and films.
This is the first monograph in English on Luc Ferrari and includes writings, original compositions, notes, text scores, artworks and interviews. Edited by Brunhild Ferrari. English translations by Catherine Marcangeli. Foreword by Thurston Moore. Introduction by Jim O’Rourke. Preface by Brunhild Ferrari. Afterword by David Grubbs.
1971, English
Softcover, 46 pages, 26.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
La Revue Musicale / Paris
$80.00 - In stock -
Very rare 1971 publication of an article by French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète, Pierre Schaeffer (1910—1995), from Music and Technology, proceedings of the international conference organized by UNESCO in Stockholm, June 1970, published here translated to English in full by La Revue Musicale, Paris.
Very Good copy.
c. 1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 74 pages, 24.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
The University of the State of New York Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development / Albany
$65.00 - In stock -
Rare copy of the privately issued curriculum guide for a high school elective in music education, published by the University of the State of New York, Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development, Albany, New York, circa 1985.
Illustrated throughout, "the publication is divided into two sections: Part I is concerned with high fidelity, stereo, and record collecting; and Part II deals in a general way with electronic music, with those aspects of electronics which are used in composition and performance, and with the characteristics of an electronic music studio. Selective resource listings have been included in each part." Musical references include Morton Subotnick, Luc Ferrari, Edgard Varèse, Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, György Ligeti, Pierre Henry, Pierre Scheaffer, Jacques Arthuys, Tod Dockstader, Stockhausen, Xenakis, John Cage, Luciano Berio, and many more.
A wonderful document for anyone interested in the history of introducing modern/electronic music to schools, and for anyone else it is a concise and clear introduction to all aspects of understanding the basics of electronics in music, the elements of sound, audio recording, amplification, media, cataloguing, etc. with a wealth of fundamental resource information on modern music in print and recorded.
Naturally, no copies located on OCLC.
VG copy with light wear to cover edges, perfectly preserved interior. Previous owner's name to top of title page — Australian based experimental composer Warren Burt.
2019, Japanese / English
Softcover, 80 pages, 18.3 x 30 cm
Signed and numbered edition of 850,
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Akio Nagasawa Publishing / Tokyo
$290.00 - In stock -
Beautiful limited edition of Mayfly, signed and numbered by Moriyama. Originally published in 1972 under the title Kagero, Mayfly is Daido Moriyama’s sole commission to produce a series of erotica. Mayfly is a series of Moriyama's "Kinbaku" photos that came about as a result of a collaboration with Dan Oniroku (1931—2011), legendary author of S/M fiction whose books were often adapted into "pink" films produced by Nikkatsu studios, Japan’s oldest film studio. Kagero can be viewed as an extension of Provoke #2: Eros, an early landmark publication in Moriyama’s storied career.
"Traveling down memory lane and going back 50 years in time, I arrived at a small and nameless village at the cape of a certain peninsula. What I found there were five naked women, all equally tied up with ropes, and with dazed looks on their faces. So I got out my camera and spontaneously began to take photographs. It was a strange day; a day like an ephemeral vision."— Afterword by Daido Moriyama
"While at a glance the work recalls the bondage photography of Nobuyoshi Araki, here runs perhaps a more sinister vein. This is not without reason, as Moriyama intended his pictures to represent the sadism of masculinity—clearly seen in scenes where male assistants tie their models in traditional Japanese bondage rope—and the inferiority complexes that often accompany such demands of domination. Here, Moriyama draws parallels between madness, libido, and ultimately, death. With these considerations in mind, the images have much in common with Hans Bellmer’s sculpture and drawings, and also sounds a resounding resonance with Marcel Duchamp’s final work, Étant Donnés. The parallel between nature and death remains constant, and it is without coincidence that the mayfly has often been used historically as a symbol of the ephemeral nature of life due to the insect’s extremely short lifespan. In this connection with both the pastoral and decay, Kagero bears some similarity to Sally Mann’s What Remains, an unsentimental observation of violence, death, and nature’s reclamation of the former." — publisher's blurb
Limited edition of 850 copies, this stunning edition comes wrapped in a card slipcase, within it a printed clamshell slipcase that opens to reveal 2 full pictures of 80 cm, housing the book, signed and numbered by Moriyama. Stunning.
As New.
1998, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 24.5 x 17 com
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Creation Books / London
The Tears Corporation / London
$40.00 - In stock -
Long out-of-print, and only issued in one volume, Suture was a "collection of illustrated essays on and by some of the most highly acclaimed figures in the global underground today" (c. 1998). Edited by Jack Sargeant, Suture documents radical artists, filmmakers, and writers working at the fringes of contemporary culture, including: Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Romain Slocombe, Suehiro Maruo, John Hilcoat, James Havoc, Trevor Brown, Dame Darcy, Mark Hejnar.
Jack Sargeant (b. 1968) is a British writer specialising in cult film, underground film, and independent film, as well as subcultures, true crime, and other aspects of the unusual. In addition he is a film programmer, curator, academic and photographer. He has appeared in underground films and performances.
Very Good copy, light corner, cover wear.
1997, English / Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jakcet), 84 pages, 24cm x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Treville / Tokyo
$100.00 - Out of stock
Signed, first 1997 hardcover edition of Trevor Brown’s first major art book, published in Japan by Treville. This collection of Brown's uniquely perverse, disturbing and now iconic paintings revolves around girls/dolls and themes of "medical art", like his friend, Bazooka-artist and photographer, Romain Slocombe. Lots of cutesy, lolita-esque girls and girl-dolls in transgressive scenarios of fetishism, bondage, body modification, etc. Published only in Japan, where the English artist has resided since 1994.
This very popular book was also published to coincide with Brown's solo exhibition at Azzlo Gallery, who specialised in fetish wear, run by artist, costume designer and student of Kaneko Kuniyoshi, Yumi Azzlo. Invitation to the exhibition is included as an insert.
Trevor Brown (b. 1959) is an illusive and prolific artist who's work explores paraphilias, such as lolicon, ero guro, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Innocence and violence collide in Brown's confronting images. Early features on his art appeared in Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture II, Shade Rupe's Funeral Party 2, and in Jim Goad's ANSWER Me! zine, garnering him wide notoriety across the provocative underground publishing scene of the 1980s—90s. He's contributed artwork to many album covers of Whitehouse, Coil, John Zorn, and many more, illustrated for Coup de Grace, an edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's Der Antichrist, the covers of Timeless magazine, and more recently illustrated the cover of the Gothic & Lolita Bible (a subculture in which Brown has many dedicated fans) in Japan, where the the artist has lived since 1994 and where his work has been published in many art book editions.
VG—NF copy. Signed by Brown.
2001, English / Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 80 pages, 24 x 19.5 cm
w/ exhibition invite,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Pan-Exotica / Tokyo
Treville / Tokyo
$80.00 - Out of stock
First 2001 hardcover edition of Trevor Brown’s first major art book from 1997, expanded and re-editioned as "Forbidden Fruit" with additional artworks added from 1997—2001, published in Japan by Pan-Exotica for Treville. This collection of Brown's uniquely perverse, disturbing and now iconic paintings revolves around girls/dolls and themes of "medical art", like his friend, Bazooka-artist and photographer, Romain Slocombe. Lots of cutesy, lolita-esque girls and girl-dolls in transgressive scenarios of fetishism, bondage, violence, body modification, etc. Published only in Japan, where the English artist has resided since 1994.
This edition was published to coincide with Brown's solo exhibition at Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, celebrating the publication of the new collection "Medical Fan". Invitation to the exhibition is included as an insert.
Trevor Brown (b. 1959) is an illusive and prolific artist who's work explores paraphilias, such as lolicon, ero guro, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Innocence and violence collide in Brown's confronting images. Early features on his art appeared in Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture II, Shade Rupe's Funeral Party 2, and in Jim Goad's ANSWER Me! zine, garnering him wide notoriety across the provocative underground publishing scene of the 1980s—90s. He's contributed artwork to many album covers of Whitehouse, Coil, John Zorn, and many more, illustrated for Coup de Grace, an edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's Der Antichrist, the covers of Timeless magazine, and more recently illustrated the cover of the Gothic & Lolita Bible (a subculture in which Brown has many dedicated fans) in Japan, where the the artist has lived since 1994 and where his work has been published in many art book editions.
Fine—As New copy.
1993, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 220 pages, 13.6 cm x 19.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Seikyūsha / Tokyo
$110.00 - Out of stock
New Tribalism In Sexual City, Prick Up, Rubbers, Gay Fetishism, Consensual SM, Modern Primitives, Pre-Tech Tattoo, Fakir Musafar, Ignore the White Culture, Body Manipulation, Hyper Pornography, Harrison Marks, Allen Jones, She-Male, Mannequin, Kinbaku, Seppuku, Kyoko Hamura, Rightbrain, Trevor Brown, Roman Slocombe, Medical Art, Forest Of Guts, Auto Erotic, J. P. Witkin, Anatomic Images, Discipline, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkoglar, Aktion, Meat Performance, Trans-Gender, Transmutation, John Gacy, Ed Gain, Death ...
First hardcover edition of "Terminal Body Play", written by Merzbow's Masami Akita and published only in Japan in 1993. Covering all the above subjects with b/w illustrations, "Terminal Body Play" explores a plethora of physical utopias, including a revived ancient culture of body decoration and manipulation, the pleasure of the body perverted by BDSM, the dematerialised body of performance art, the aesthetics of murder, medicine and anatomy, and so much more. Merzbow is a noise project created in Tokyo, Japan in 1979 under the direction of noise technician Masami Akita. As well as a legendary underground noise artist, Akita is a prolific writer in Japan and frequently writes on the arts, music, erotica, esoterica, modern architecture, and animal rights, with articles on emerging subcultures and underground extreme cultures appearing in publications like SM Sniper, Studio Voice and Fool's Mate. His development of the Merzbow aesthetic ran parallel with a series of investigative books in which he catalogued and introduced a vast amount of hermetic types of music, sexual practices and autonomous creativity to a fairly conservative (but not close-minded) Japanese audience. "Terminal Body Play" is one of these very books.
First edition, Japanese text, fine copy with fine "textured" and illustrated dust jacket.
1997, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Midnight Media / UK
$50.00 - In stock -
Rare English film digest / filmography by Lucas Balbo and Laurent Aknin on one of cinema's most fascinating and complicated human beings, Klaus Kinski. Kinski was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a career that spanned 40 years, from 1948 to 1988. Published in this one edition in 1997 by Published by Midnight Media, Disorder & Genius is an excellent introduction and concise synopsis of Kinski's acting career, and an indispensable reference tracing his complete filmography chronologically, each listing with film details and short overview, profusely illustrated with film stills, poster artwork, vhs covers, and publicity images in colour and b/w.
"Klaus Kinski died in 1991 amid almost general indifference. Nikolaus Gunther Nakszynski—his real name—was born in Zoppot, Poland on 18 October 1926; in his autobiography, "Dying to Live" (released in the USA as "All I Need Is Love" and subsequently withdrawn and banned — then in 1996 was re- issued, in both the UK and USA, as “Kinski Uncut", with extra text but with 'minor' alterations to avoid possible lawsuits!), he went into great detail about his childhood, a nightmare of poverty, promiscuity and incest... After the war, he went on the German stage where he came in contact with some of the greatest directors of the period. He achieved a certain notoriety with his recitals of poems by Rimbaud and above all the Medieval French bawdy poet Villon. Later he appeared in some of Cocteau's plays such as "The Typewriter" and "The Human Voice", this last being a long monologue by a woman on a telephone. Kinski played the woman and provoked a scandal. But, he earned Cocteau's admiration. He ended his theatrical career with an "adaptation" of the New Testament which provoked a riot.
From the end of the 1940s, Kinski was offered many parts in films which he took up sporadically, believing, as he said himself, that all that was merely shit..."—from the introduction
Near Fine copy.