World Food Books

SALE2 NO.36
Female Foot Fetishism Special Issue

1989, Japanese
Softcover, 208 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Issue No.36 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.36, the "Female Foot Fetishism Special Issue" with the wonderful wraparound Pierre Molinier cover is packed with imagery and essays around the theme of "Foot and Fetish Heel" throughout history, literature, film and fetish publishing, etc. profusely illustrated with drawings, photography, bondage illustrations, film stills, catalogue clippings, and artworks, including works by Bill Ward, Pierre Molinier, Nobuyoshi Araki, and so many more. It also features the Fiction, Inc. section that samples a cross-section of content from catalogue publications including the work of John Willie, Bill Ward, Carlo, Eric Stanton, Irving Claw, Betty Page, and periodicals such as Rubber Magazine, Amateur Bondage, Bizarre Comix, Bizarre Classix, Bizarre Fotos, Stiletto, and much more... Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy.

File under: Bill Ward Pierre Molinier Nobuyoshi Araki John Willie Carlo Eric Stanton Irving Claw Betty Page Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Fetishism / BDSM Eros Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fashion LGBTQ+ Surrealism Theory / Essay

The Manson File: Myth And Reality Of An Outlaw Shaman
by Nikolas Schreck

2024, English
Softcover, 396 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
Published by Surrealist Research / Kent

$60.00 - In stock -

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"A major work in elegant prose that will captivate and challenge anyone who thinks they know the story of Charles Manson."—Dr Stephen Harper, author of Madness, Power & The Media, University of Portsmouth

Based on thirty years of research, the story of notorious outlaw, musician and folk devil Charles Manson is revealed to be one of the most twisted and depraved cover-ups in American history.

A landmark in cultural reportage, Nikolas Schreck’s epic long-read shows with meticulous detail how a confluence of Hollywood, the music industry, organized crime and the judiciary colluded to conceal the real motives for the 1969 “Helter Skelter” killing spree.

Structured like a proverbial helter skelter, this groundbreaking work cracks open the official story to reveal the interconnected aspects of Charles Manson as philosopher, musician, revolutionary and patsy.

An essential textbook for scholars and a mighty “true crime” book for the general reader, The Manson File reveals a secret history of America in a narrative as artful as a great novel.

File under: Charles Manson Nikolas Schreck Charles Manson Surrealist Research / Kent Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Occult / Esoterica Counterculture Theory / Essay Sound / Music

Kohei Yoshiyuki
Document Park

1980, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 114 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Seven Sha / Tokyo

$580.00 - In stock -

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Rare first edition of Kohei Yoshiyuki's cult classic photo book, Document: The Park (Document Park), published in 1980 by Seven Sha, Tokyo. Yoshiyuki's voyeuristic masterpiece, The Park is like no other photo book. A controversial volume of 74 photographs taken by the photographer using a 35mm camera, infrared film, and flash, Yoshiyuki documented a secret community of lovers and voyeurs who gathered in Shinjuku Park and Yoyogi Park between 1971 and 1973. His pictures document the people who gathered in these parks for clandestine trysts under the cloak of darkness, as well as the many spectators lurking in the bushes who watched—and sometimes participated in—these couplings. With their raw, snapshot-like quality, these images not only uncover the hidden illicit sexual encounters of their subjects, both homosexual and heterosexual, but they also serve as a chronicle of a Japan we rarely see. As Martin Parr writes in The Photobook: A History, Volume II, The Park is "a brilliant piece of social documentation, capturing perfectly the loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo."

A beautifully printed book, with original dust-jacket. Includes two conversations with Kohei Yoshiyuki with Kenichi Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Araki.

Kohei Yoshiyuki (b. 1946—2022)   came to recognition in 1972 when material from his photo project “The Park” was featured in magazine Shukan Shincho, and a year later, in respected photo journal Camera Mainichi.  However, it was the 1979 photo exhibition “The Park” at Komai Gallery and 1980 photo book “Document: The Park” that established him within the contemporary photographic landscape. Since then, Yoshiyuki was a recurrent fixture in Japan debauchery journal Super Photo Magazine along photographers: Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Keizo Kitajima and Seiji Kurata.

Very Good copy in Good dust jacket with usual tanning to spine edge, wear to extremities, and dj corner tear hidden inside jacket fold (blank black area, not affecting any content). Otherwise a well preserved copy.

File under: Kohei Yoshiyuki Nobuyoshi Araki Nobuyoshi Araki Seven Sha / Tokyo Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Japanese Photography Photography Art

Ikko Kagari
Document Commuter Train

1982, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 96 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hama Shobo / Tokyo

$600.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first controversial photo book by Japanese photographer Ikko Kagari, published in 1982 in Tokyo. Kagari made a number of these extraordinary, extremely questionable, surreptitious infrared photography collections in the 1980's—1990's, featuring secret "close-up photography" documenting clandestine sexual activities in public places — groping and upskirt photographs taken on packed Tokyo Metro commuter trains, in nightclubs, on escalators, couples making it in public toilets, parked cars and in parks with infrared strobe techniques reminiscent of Kohei Yoshiyuki's incredible Document Park (the two often featured side-by-side in books and journals). Document Commuter Train is his cult highly sought-after "masterpiece", made most collectible in the West through it's feature in Parr & Badger's "The Photobook: Vol. III". Document Commuter Train is a beautifully produced photo book entirely made up of the infamous rush hour train carriage photography. Cover-to-cover b/w reproductions of Kagari's grainy, blown-out infrared images that blur all lines between voyeur/participant and simulated/real, make for disorientating, sometimes claustrophobic, uneasy viewing. But they are also absolutely stunning, effective photo books that feel as conceptual as they do devious. Kagari's fleeting in flagrante scenes capture erotic desire and criminal impulse engulfed by the soft folds of entangled garment fabrics with stunning technique. He went so far as to publish a how-to book for amateurs! Thankfully the 2000s saw the introduction of women-only carriages on the Tokyo Metro, relegating such expertise to history.

Very Good copy with VG dust jacket.

File under: Ikko Kagari Hama Shobo / Tokyo Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Japanese Photography Photography Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare

Hitomi Watanabe
Shinjuku 1968

2014, Japanese
Softcover (in card slipcase w. obi), 260 pages, 25.4 x 18.2 cm
Signed.,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Town to House / Japan

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Signed first edition of "Shinjuku 1968" by acclaimed Japanese photographer and representative of the Provoke movement, Hitomi Watanabe, published in 2014 and now out of print.

"The core of the collection is formed by photographs from the year 1969, the year in which the Shinjuku West Exit square became a passage and a meeting penned by the media as “Folk Guerilla” was obliterated by the riot police, a greater part of the collected photos were taken in 1968. At that time, the first place editors would take me to was a bar called Unicon, near Shinjuku Gyoen. After that, we would go barhopping to places like DUG (which is still going strong even today),Trevi, DIG, Mokuba, Pit In, Bizarre, places where modern jazz was playing. The time of the Red Tents of Juro Kara near Hanazono shrine, of the avant-garde films of ATG, the performance art happenings on the streets, before they became pedestrian zones… It was a time when hippies stoned off their mind would cross your path, and “underground” was the word you’d hear in the streets of Shinjuku. When it was not Shibuya or Shimokitazawa, not Kichijoji but Shinjuku where culture was taking place. Days like these continued, until one night, a huge riot took place in the Shinjuku area. The 10.21 International Anti-War Day. While being jostled with the crowd, the once abstract Vietnam War and its consequences became a tangible reality which I experienced with my own body.

In the Shinjuku of 1968, you can see an entire era reflected." — Excerpt from the afterword

"These may be photographs of the past, but they show the present." — Nobuyoshi Araki

Shinjuku 1968 consists entirely of Watanabe's photographs of the Tokyo neighbourhood Shinjuku at the end of the 1960s, which can be said to be the beginning of her photographic career. It was here that she first encountered the Japanese counter culture and became involved in the student movement and anti-war protests. Her candid photographs of the everyday lives of the protesters, the state violence, and the aftermath of rioting from her insider’s vantage on this tumultuous moment afforded her work an undeniable, enduring power. Here, in "Shinjuku 1968", Watanabe presents her documents of the protests and rallies beside her images of the underground scene, the theatre, clubs, the Shinjuku streets, shopfronts, and the everyday folk that inhabited the neighbourhood at that time, with some of the images republished for the first time since her iconic "Shinjuku Contemporary 1968" and "Kaihoku '68 / Liberated Area '68" photo books of the 1960s.

Very Good copy, almost As New, with original slipcase and publisher's obi-strip (featuring Nobuyoshi Araki testimonial). Signed and dated by Hitomi Watanabe in 2015 to the colophon page in black pen.

File under: Hitomi Watanabe Town to House / Japan Counterculture Protest / Revolt Out-of-print / Rare Signed Books Art Japanese Photography Photography

HEAVY ZINE VOL 1 — HARDCORE VICTIM 24

2024, English
Softcover, 102 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Published by Friends That Publish / Naarm

$35.00 - In stock -

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Volume 1 of Heavy Zine, a photo zine collection of black and white photography documenting 3 days of the 4 day Hardcore Victim ‘24 Festival in Naarm/Melbourne — featuring 19 bands — Kissland, Hacker, Romansy, No Future, Sintax, Straight-Jacket Nation, Kriegshög, Shove, Persecutor, Rat Bait, Sepsis, Phantasm, Swab, Dejector, Enzyme, Skizophrenia, Cryptid, Vampire, Thatchers Snatch. 102 pages of full bleed photographs shot by Charlie Foster and printed in Melbourne on enviro paper with heavy stock covers. $5 from every sale will be donated equally towards PARA and Pay The Rent.

File under: Kissland Hacker Romansy No Future Sintax Straight-Jacket Nation Kriegshög Shove Persecutor Rat Bait Sepsis Phantasm Swab Dejector Enzyme Skizophrenia Cryptid Vampire Thatchers Snatch Friends That Publish / Naarm Sound / Music Australian Art Photography Counterculture

CHIRASHI
TOKYO PUNK & NEW WAVE '78-80s

2022, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. obi strip), 480 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by SLOGAN / Japan

$100.00 - In stock -

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First 2022 edition of CHIRASHI — TOKYO PUNK & NEW WAVE '78-80s, an almost 500 page comprehensive compilation of "the flyers that have coloured the music scene since the 'Tokyo Rockers' in 1978. Underground music history as seen through leaflets". Edited by Toshio Iijima and Hirokazu Furukawa.

The rise of punk rock & new wave from 1978. The paper medium of 'flyers' supported this great wave. Bands delivered information by flyers, people gathered by flyers, bands and people burned together, and flyers were literally 'scattered'.Punk Rock ~ New Wave since 1978 The large waves were supported by a paper medium called "flyer". The band delivers information by the flyer, the flyers gather people, the band and people burned together, and the flyers literally "scattered".

FEATURING:
Tokyo Rockers / Friction / Lizard / Mirrors / S-Ken / Punk 99% / The Stalin / The Star Club / Jagatara / Zelda / Non Band / Gozira Records / Les Rallizes Dénudés / 100% Nylon / Pirate Boat K / Electric Circuit / Daisuck And Prostitute / Auto-Mod / Telegraph Records / Fools / Legal Contagion Gig / Typhus / Indiscriminate Gig / Pablo Picasso / Mods Mayday'81 / Emotional Market / Adk Day / Disinfection Gig / Gauze / Chance Operation / Edps / Heavenly Injection Day / etc...

FROM THE EDITOR...
The flyer, as it is now called, is a paper medium that carries information about shows and releases. With the rise of Punk Rock in the late 1970s, it played an important role as a means of communicating information in the music scene and was called a "flyer" or "leaflet" at the time. Of course, there were no computers back then, and flyers were produced completely by hand, copying, cutting and pasting hand-drawn illustrations, photographs and existing materials, and writing information on a text sheet called an in-letter (......). The flyers, produced entirely by hand, were literally 'scattered' as a medium to succinctly convey the individuality and orientation of each band and live project. As they were distributed free of charge, most of them were discarded when they had fulfilled their advertising function. However, many of the designs are still attractive today and, as a result, have become valuable record-keeping media for live shows and other information. This time, for the first time in Japan, flyers have been compiled into a book, with the cooperation of people who have recognised the significance and value of flyers as more than mere information announcements and have carefully preserved them. By collecting the flyers and arranging them chronologically, we can feel the changes in the underground scene from a different perspective from the books and films that have been published so far. We are convinced that this content, which goes beyond a mere collection of works and conveys a real history of the scene, is a valuable record of Japanese / Tokyo PUNK ROCK / underground music. These "flyers" cannot be called art or works of art, nor do we want to call them that. However, we are sure that it is full of mysterious charm. We hope that everyone who picks up a copy will be able to feel the passion that has transcended the years. Record shop BASE, Toshio Iijima 2022

As New.

File under: Toshio Iijima Hirokazu Furukawa SLOGAN / Japan Sound / Music Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Out-of-print / Rare

Gandalf's Garden Issue 5
"Mind Revolution"

1969, English
Softcover (stiff-boards, staple-bound), 34 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gandalf's Garden / London

$140.00 - In stock -

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Rare original copy of issue 5 of the legendary Gandalf's Garden magazine from 1969, an important piece of Britain's underground press, issue featuring Soft Machine by drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt, poetry by Joan Baez, psychedelic artwork by Hans-Joachim Zeidler and John Hurford, "Mind Revolution", Cornwall free press, Meher Baba, communes, Middle-earth, cosmic magazines, record reviews (Third Ear Band, Marc Bolan, etc.), and much more. The "Mystical Scene Magazine" was published by Gandalf's Garden, a mystical community and shoppe based in World's End, Chelsea, which flourished at the end of the 1960s as part of the London hippie-underground movement. Edited by Muz Murray and a huge cast of commune contributors and artists, the magazine emphasised the mystical interests of the period, before 'New Age' was a thing — meditation, psychedelics, back-to-the-land ideology, occultism, cosmic rock... The magazine emerged in 1968 publishing 6 issues, all beautifully designed using different colours of ink and various coloured paper stocks throughout each issue. Each issue was heavily illustrated and filled with articles, poetry, interviews, letters, reports and reviews, and, much like fellows of the underground press such as The International Times and OZ, included a healthy dose of satire and "Earthly Revolution".

Very Good copy of the scarce publication, rubbing/pinching to spine, general wear and light marking.

File under: Soft Machine Robert Wyatt Joan Baez Hans-Joachim Zeidler John Hurford Marc Bolan Third Ear Band Gandalf's Garden / London Counterculture Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Health Ecology Ecology / Earth Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Too Negative No. 1
October 1994

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 210 pages, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$150.00 - Out of stock

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The rare inaugural issue of Too Negative (No. 1 October 1994). Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue, Too Negative   No. 1 October 1994, features the corpse/death photography of Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, fetish photography of Kiyoshi Ikejiri, Trevor Brown artwork, AIDS body theory by Keiji Nakayama, SM photography by David Pearson, Japanese big girl nude portraits by photographer Yurie Nagashima, Yasumasa Yonehara photography, hermaphrodite masterbation, antique Japanese hermaphrodite genital studies and various early medical drawings, erotic assemblage, medical/anatomy photography, you name it.

Very Good copy.

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

Too Negative No. 7
January 1997

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 210 pages, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$130.00 - Out of stock

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Too Negative No. 7 January 1997. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue,  Too Negative No. 7 January 1997, features the photography of Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Francis Bacon, photographer Andres Serrano, photographer Eric Kroll, photographer Hiroshi Yokoi, artist/photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, early 20th Century medical photography, early American mugshots, ‘Forbidden Colors’ tattoo photography, artist Hideki Sugimoto, early war medical and facial prosthetics, crime scene photography ‘The Sunset Murders', contemporary infant medical photography, crime scene photography, ‘Henry Lee Lucas’ serial killer article with photos, ‘Women En Large’ photo feature, ‘The Man Who Fell To Heaven’ gunshot wounds medical photography, and much more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Francis Bacon Andres Serrano Eric Kroll Joel Peter Witkin Hiroshi Yokoi Hideki Sugimoto Tom Shobo / Japan Art Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Occult / Esoterica Film / Video Japanese Photography Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Shock Factory – Culture visuelle des musiques industrielles (1969-1995)
by Nicolas Ballet

2023, French
Softcover, 465 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

$80.00 - In stock -

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A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.

Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon, it quickly produced a global visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, performance, sound, video) in a close dialogue with the legacy of modernity and the growing influence of technology. Originally British, its development grew in Europe, the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments deployed by industrial bands—designing synthesizers, manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes recycled or conceived by the artists—were supplemented by a rich array of radical visual productions, deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. The saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images, altered by a détournement of reprographic techniques (Xerox art) that invested polemical themes: mental control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry and totalitarianism, among others. This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analyzing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement, who anticipated current issues concerning the media and their coercive power.

Nicolas Ballet is an art historian and associate curator at the Centre Pompidou. He specialises in research into alternative visual cultures, experimental art, sound studies and the avant-garde. He received his PhD from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he teaches contemporary art history. He has written numerous texts exploring the visual and sonic contributions of counter-cultures and experimental artistic practices. He is the author of two books on Genesis P-Orridge, and has published in Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Octopus Notes, Marges,OpticalSound, Volume !, Revue & Corrigée, Klima, in Cahiers du CAP and Histo.art (Éditions de la Sorbonne), as well as in books devoted to the work of Nigel Ayers and Zoe Dewitt. In 2023, he curated the exhibition "Who You Staring At? Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s" at the Centre Pompidou.

Foreword by Pascal Rousseau.

File under: Nicolas Ballet Pascal Rousseau Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Sound / Music Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video

Nigel Ayers
Electronic Resistance

2021, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 31 x 22.86 cm
Published by Amaya Productions / USA

$130.00 - Out of stock

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Since the late 1970s, Nigel Ayers (b. 1957, UK) has cut a bracing, subversive path through the contemporary underground, bridging DIY industrial enthusiasms with multimedia experimentation to form a singular body of work. Co-founder of the groups The Pump and Nocturnal Emissions (along with brother Daniel Ayers and then-partner Caroline Kaye), Ayers has been a contributor to and proponent of industrial music’s high-water marks, his Sterile Records imprint disseminating not only NE sides but also defining work from Lustmord, SPK, Maurizio Bianchi, and others between 1979 and 1986. In 1987, Ayers inaugurated the Earthly Delights label with the now-canonical Caroline K recording Now Wait For Last Year, and the imprint has since served as Ayers’s primary outlet for releasing new work, whether as Magnetizdat, Spanner Thru Ma Beatbox, or Nocturnal Emissions, a going concern to this day.

Published, designed, and produced by Ross Waitman and Amaya Productions in collaboration with the artist, Electronic Resistance compiles mail-art, collages, assemblages, flyers, slides, video stills, ephemera, record and tape covers to present an arresting cross-section of the genre-sundering art Nigel Ayers created between 1980 and 1992. It features an introductory reflection from Ayers, as well as an essay entitled “Bleeding Images: Antipsychiatry, Death, and Mind Control” by art historian and critic Nicholas Ballet (Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), contextualizing Ayers’s work and extensive career.

750 copies limited edition.

File under: Nigel Ayers Nicholas Ballet The Pump Nocturnal Emissions Lustmord SPK Maurizio Bianchi Amaya Productions / USA Art Sound / Music Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

G.B. Jones

1994/2022, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 68 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
Published by Kunstverein Toronto / Toronto

$45.00 - In stock -

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Long-awaited re—print of G.B. Jones' legendary 1994 monograph.

G.B. Jones (b. 1965, Bowmanville, Canada) is recognized for many accomplishments: for the success of her post-punk band Fifth Column (1981–2002), the widespread influence of the many queer punk zines she co-authored, including J.D.s, Double Bill and Hide, her coining of the term “queercore,”and her prolific work as a “no-budget” filmmaker, scene photographer and visual artist. Her drawing series, “Tom Girls,” originally published in J.D.s, replaced Tom of Finland’s iconic, “hyper-virile studs” with bold, uncompromising leather dykes, co-opting Finland’s objectified, male-on-male erotica and presenting a world of “nasty female role models”—Dodie Bellamy.

In 1994, Feature Inc. + Instituting Contemporary Idea in New York released the monograph G.B. Jones. Edited and designed by Steve Lafreniere, the book compiled Jones’ “Tom Girls” drawings alongside show and film posters, record covers, comics and commissioned writing, including contributions and appearances by Dennis Cooper, Vaginal Davis, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Caroline Azar, Johnny Noxzema, and others. As part of a campaign by the Canadian Border Services agency against allegedly pornographic or immoral materials in the 1990s, copies of Jones’ book were seized by the Canada Border Services Agency and barred from entering the country on the charge of depicting “bondage.” Jones was later informed that the seized copies had been burned by Border Control agents.

27 years later, in collaboration with Jones, Kunstverein Toronto is putting G.B. Jones back in circulation in Canada. This re—publication of the book was published to accompany a 2022 exhibition of related drawings, photographs, posters, ephemera and tributes that reflect the reach and influence of Jones’ heterogenous practice, both at the time of the original release of G.B. Jones, and today.

File under: G.B. Jones Dennis Cooper Vaginal Davis Dodie Bellamy Kevin Killian Caroline Azar Johnny Noxzema Kunstverein Toronto / Toronto Art Eros Sound / Music Film / Video LGBTQ+ Drawing Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Young Samurai: Bodybuilders of Japan
Photography by Tamotsu Yatō; Introduction by Yukio Mishima

1967 / 1974, English
Softcover (french-fold boards), 76 pages, 26.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by John Weatherhill / Tokyo

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Rare 1974 English edition of the first 1967 edition of Young Samurai: Bodybuilders of Japan, which was planned, designed and produced by John Weatherhill publishers in Tokyo in both Japanese (with original Japanese title "Taido (The Way of the Body)") and English language editions, preceding the more common Grove Press US re-print of 1967.

Japanese physique photography by one of Japan’s most noted photographers of homoerotic imagery, Tamotsu Yatō. For this celebrated collection of bodybuilding photographs, novelist Yukio Mishima not only contributed the introduction, in which he describes this as “the first collection of photographs of Japanese bodybuilders ever published”, but also modelled for some of the most memorable photographs. This was Yatō's first photo book.

"…for the past ten years and more there has been a group of young men in Japan who, privately, sweating silently, and with barbells for companions, have developed sturdy, well-proportioned physiques such as earlier Japanese never imagined even in dreams. The present book is eloquent testimony to their success. As the well-known essayist Michio Takeyama has written, it is amazing how faithfully the bodies of Japanese youths conform to the aesthetic standards of ancient Greece, and I am reminded of Lafcadio Hearn's having called the Japanese 'the Greeks of the Orient.'"

Includes an essay by Hitoshi Tamari, Managing Director of the Japan Bodybuilding Association.

Near Fine copy, beautifully preserved copy of the original publisher's English edition, printed in Japan.

File under: Tamotsu Yato Yukio Mishima Hitoshi Tamari John Weatherhill / Tokyo Eros LGBTQ+ Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Art Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare

ORSTRALIA - A PUNK HISTORY 1990—1999
by Tristan Clark

2024, English
Softcover, 212 pages, 23 x 15 cm
Published by Self Published / Melbourne

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Australia, the 1990s: Strictly Ballroom, Silverchair, Mabo, Port Arthur, economic rationalism, and Pauline Hanson.

Within its more concealed history, the opening of the decade saw punk in Australia experiencing a transitory lull. Populated mostly by the diehards and remnants of the 1980s, its sound and style were in danger of being subsumed, or at least diluted, by grunge and alternative music through a resurgent interest in guitar-driven bands. Able to maintain its own identity and networks against the challenge, as the decade progressed punk evolved into even more diffuse subgenres.

Now, twenty years after its relatively inauspicious birth in Australia, punk, in one of its multivarious forms, topped the national music charts. But though the decade brought if not respectability then a new saleability to punk, it was an era still prone to its tumult, tragedy, humour, and audacity. Through a further 70 interviews, Orstralia: A Punk History 1990-1999 continues the disclosure of its first volume, covering bands from the most obscure to those who reached the very apex of Australia's music industry.

Tristan Clark is a Melbourne-based educator, musician, and writer. His involvement in punk has spanned over three decades and encompassed a near gamut of roles: band member, roadie, merch person, show organizer, Food Not Bombs volunteer, community radio DJ, as well as having written sporadically for local zines and other publications. He now routinely encounters the young students he spends his week working with at local DIY shows and is heartened by punk’s continued ability to self-reproduce.

File under: Tristan Clark Self Published / Melbourne Sound / Music Counterculture Sociology / Politics Australian Art Theory / Essay Anarchism

ORSTRALIA: A PUNK HISTORY 1974—1989 & 1990—1999 (2 VOLS)
by Tristan Clark

2024, English
Softcovers, 326 + 212 pages, 23 x 15 cm
Published by PM Press / Oakland Self Published / Melbourne

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Both volumes of Tristan Clark's ORSTRALIA: A PUNK HISTORY, covering 1974—1989 & 1990—1999, offering an unprecedented snapshot of an underacknowledged segment of Australian life and history. See individual listings for more information on each volume.

Tristan Clark is a Melbourne-based educator, musician, and writer. His involvement in punk has spanned over three decades and encompassed a near gamut of roles: band member, roadie, merch person, show organizer, Food Not Bombs volunteer, community radio DJ, as well as having written sporadically for local zines and other publications. He now routinely encounters the young students he spends his week working with at local DIY shows and is heartened by punk’s continued ability to self-reproduce.

File under: Tristan Clark PM Press / Oakland Self Published / Melbourne Australian Art Counterculture Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

The Abolition of Work and Other Essays
by Bob Black

1986, English
Softcover, 158 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Loompanics Unltd / Port Townsend

$35.00 - Out of stock

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"Bob Black is the high priest of nihilarity. His confessional has Duchamp's urinal bolted to its door. His ten commandments are a string of one liners. His faith is baldly heretical. It begins where the dictionary ends, not with the ZZZ of a snore but with the chaotic rumbling of a chortle that quickens the senses like an earthquake that sways a petrified forest. By virtue of his faults, Black derides the wheel without spokes, the mandala of zero, and demoralizes the mind forged hi-tectonics whose poison prescribes that one seismograph counterfeits all."—Ed Lawrence

First 1986 edition of Bob Black's first book, the anthology of essays, The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, self-published by Loompanics Unltd, Port Townsend. The ground-breaking and influential essay, The Abolition of Work, is an exposition of Black's "type 3 anarchism" – a blend of post-Situationist theory and individualist anarchism – focusing on a critique of the work ethic. Further essays deliver blows of authentic unfettered suicide-bomber madness to political and moral institutions of all kinds, and reviews Conan The Barbarian.

“Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you could care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed from work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.”

Although "The Abolition of Work" has most often been reprinted by anarchist publishers and Black is well known as an anarchist, the essay's argument is not explicitly anarchist. Black argues that the abolition of work is as important as the abolition of the state. The essay, which is based on a 1981 speech at the Gorilla Grotto in San Francisco, is informal and without academic references, but Black mentions some sources such as the utopian socialist Charles Fourier, the unconventional Marxists Paul Lafargue and William Morris, anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin and Paul Goodman, and anthropologists such as Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee.

"The Abolition of Work" was a significant influence on writer Bruce Sterling, who at the time was a leading cyberpunk science fiction author and called it "one of the seminal underground documents of the 1980s". It has also appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, including translations into French, German, Italian, Dutch and Slovene.

Further essays remind us of a time of independent publishing enlightenment in the 1980's and 1990's, when the cream of post 1970s xerox mad-ranters and suicide-bombers of moral institutions

Very Good copy.

File under: Bob Black Loompanics Unltd / Port Townsend Anarchism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Counterculture Protest / Revolt Socialism / Communism / Capitalism

T.A.Z. : The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
by Hakim Bey

1985 / 2001, English
Softcover, 148 pages, 11.4 x 17.2 cm
Published by Autonomedia / New York

$29.00 - Out of stock

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"A Blake Angel on Bad Acid" — Robert Anton Wilson
"Fascinating..." — William Burroughs
"Who is Hakim Bey? I love him!" — Timothy Leary

Back in print — the underground cult bestseller and first book by anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) published in 1991 by Autonomedia. Originally published in 1985 and circulated in the underground via small private and pirate editions, these texts were an inspiration for a generation of troublemakers and idealists. Both celebrated in the punk underground (where the original book has become a seminal text) and denounced in some anarchist circles, the book has proved itself as both influential and relevant to multiple generations of dreamers, agitators, and activists.

Essays that redefine the psychogeographical nooks of autonomy. Recipes for poetic terror, anarcho-black magic, post-situ psychotropic surgery, denunciations of spiritual addictions to vapid infotainment cults — this is the bastard classic, the watermark impressed upon our minds. Where conscience informs praxis, and action infects consciousness, T.A.Z. is beginning to worm its way into above-ground culture. This book offers inspired blasts of writing, from slogans to historical essays, on the need to insert revolutionary happiness into everyday life through poetic action, and celebrating the radical optimism present in outlaw cultures. It should appeal to alternative thinkers and punks everywhere, as it celebrates liberation, love and poetic living.

This new edition contains the full text of "Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism", the complete "Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy", and the new long essay "The Temporary Autonomous Zone", and a new preface by the author.

Very Good copy with some light wear.

File under: Hakim Bey Autonomedia / New York Theory / Essay Counterculture Anarchism Sociology / Politics

Silvestar Club 6

1987, Japanese
Softcover, 176 pages, 22 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

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The 1987 "Noise" issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Silvestar Club, published and edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave...). Features Zoviet France, H.N.A.S., Nurse with Wound, SPK, Etant Donnes, P16.D4, M.B. / Maurizio Bianchi, Sema / Robert Haigh, Coil, Whitehouse, Current 93, Chris & Cosey, Monte Cazazza, Throbbing Gristle, Genesis P-Orridge, Organum, Nocturnal Emissions, Tamia, Ramleh, Club Moral, Esplendor Geometico, Lustmord, Mnemonists, Die Tödliche Doris, The Hafler Trio, Cranioclast, Cabaret Voltaire, Zos-Kia, Test Department, Diamanda Galas, Z'ev, Danielle Dax, and much more. Articles on iconic live performances by Wire and Dome, plus essays by music critic, editor (Rock Magazine, Ego, et al) and Vanity label owner Yuzuru Agi; noise artist Merzbow's Masami Akita; experimental musician Keiji Haino; noise artist Toshiji Mikawa; experimental programmer Ryoichiro Debuchi; plus Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater group artists Norimizu Ameya and Kyusaku Shimada; theatre director Koharu Kisaragi; computer graphics artist for films Haruhiko Shono; visual artist Seiko Mikami; music critic Kuniharu Akiyama... ! Discographies, performance documentation, related artworks, record sleeves, flyers, and much more, printed across multiple raw paper stocks. A must! A perfect pre-cursor (and certainly as good as) Masami Akita's Noise War book of 1992. Texts in Japanese.

Very Good—Fine copy.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Norimizu Ameya Kyusaku Shimada Koharu Kisaragi Haruhiko Shono Seiko Mikami Keiji Haino Toshiji Mikawa Ryoichiro Debuchi Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater Group MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Sema (Robert Haigh) Zoviet France H.N.A.S. Nurse with Wound SPK Etant Donnes P16.D4 Genesis P-Orridge Coil Whitehouse Current 93 Throbbing Gristle Organum Nocturnal Emissions Tamia Ramleh Club Moral Monte Cazazza Chris and Cosey Cosey Fanni Tutti Lustmord Mnemonists Die Tödliche Doris The Hafler Trio Cranioclast Cabaret Voltaire Zos-Kia Test Department Diamanda Galas Z'ev Danielle Dax Masami Akita (Merzbow) Kuniharu Akiyama Yuzuru Agi Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Theory / Essay Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

End of the Century Club 2 (Deathtpia in Suburbia)
September 1996

1996, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), 256 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Core Magazine / Tokyo

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Don't judge a book by it's cover — you've been warned! Straight out of the young nihilist 90s, the second volume of the very short-lived and absolutely demented Seikimatsu Club (End of the Century Club), published in Tokyo between 1996—2000 for a total of only five volumes. This second volume, "Deathtpia in Suburbia", has the feature theme of Horror! Bizarre! Bizarre! Cruelty! and is packed to the absolute brim with "corpses, freaks, spectacles, murders, suicides, autopsies, rapes, sickness, pain, accident, war, religious rituals, violence, forensics, foetuses. A shocking document that eliminates all fiction (all genuine)!"

With contributors to this issue including Masami Akita (Merzbow), Masaaki Aoyama (author), Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (corpse photographer), Suehiro Maruo (ero guro manga artist), Teruo Ishii (ero guro film director), Kotaro Kobayashi (Too Negative editor-in-chief), Trevor Brown (artist), you should know what you are getting yourself into.

Following the trajection of fellow Japanese abnormal subculture magazines such as Kotaro Kobayashi's notorious Too Negative, Ultra Negative, ORG, etc., and in the spirit of a new wave of 90's nihilist publishing around the world (Answer Me!, Killing Times, Fuck!, AMOK, Feral House, etc.) End of the Century Club stares directly into the dark recesses of humanity and presents its viewers with the uncompromising extremes of our global culture. The real stuff. Where Too Negative presents itself as a glossy colour photo/art magazine, End of the Century Club is almost like a Whole Earth Catalog to the authentic macabre. With articles, interviews, reports, catalogues and hundreds of images spanning all manner of medical/autopsy/corpse photography, death journalism, serial killers, formalihide babies, war/shock accident/crime scenes, hara-kiri, murder, rape, slaughterhouse, forensic books, international underground magazines, Photobook of World Diseases, City of Sodom, corpses on the internet, Underground Baby Contest, Atlas of Dermatology, complete guide to Freaks movies, the Garbage Pail Kids, religious ceremonies, animal deformities, Interview with "The King of Cult" ero guro film director Teruo Ishii, bizarro sex, acrotomophila, artist Joel Peter Witkin's world, interview with Masaaki Aoyama, interview with corpse photographer Kotaro Kobayashi (Death, Hardcore Works, Too Negative, Billy, etc.), photography of George Dureau, interview with fetish film director and producer Kaoru Adachi, interview with experimental film director Shozin Fukui (Metal Days, Gerorisuto, Caterpillar, 964 Pinocchio, Rubber's Lover...), article on "Serial Killers & Record Junkies" by Toshihiko Hironaka (of Boris, Balzac, Hellbent fame), and all sorts of other curios from the mondo, bizarro realm.

Includes "gorgeous" 24-page high-quality corpse photo booklet feature and cover art by Trevor Brown.

Not for the fain-hearted. You'll feel like a shower after.

Very Good copy with dust jacket and obi.

File under: Trevor Brown Teruo Ishii Masami Akita (Merzbow) Joel Peter Witkin Kaoru Adachi Shozin Fukui Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Suehiro Maruo Kotaro Kobayashi George Dureau Masami Akita (Merzbow) Masaaki Aoyama Core Magazine / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Japanese Photography Photography Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Eros Film / Video Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Crime / Violence Sound / Music Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

End of the Century Club 3 (The World You Don't Know)
1997

1997, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), 256 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Core Magazine / Tokyo

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Don't judge a book by it's cover — you've been warned! Straight out of the young nihilist 90s, the third volume of the very short-lived and absolutely demented Seikimatsu Club (End of the Century Club), published in Tokyo between 1996—2000 for a total of only five volumes. This third volume, "The World You Don't Know", has the feature theme of exposing "a reality erased from everyday life", which sums it up... packed to the absolute brim with "freaks, corpses, bestiality, autopsies, fetal executions, lynchings, traffic accidents, plane crashes, amputee, heteromorphic animals, freak shows, corpse museums, shemales, etc. A shocking document that eliminates all fiction (all genuine)!"

With contributors to this issue including Masami Akita (Merzbow), Masaaki Aoyama (author), Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (corpse photographer), Hideshi Hino (horror manga artist / Guinea Pig director), Kotaro Kobayashi (Too Negative editor-in-chief), Trevor Brown (artist), you should know what you are getting yourself into.

Following the trajection of fellow Japanese abnormal subculture magazines such as Kotaro Kobayashi's notorious Too Negative, Ultra Negative, ORG, etc., and in the spirit of a new wave of 90's nihilist publishing around the world (Answer Me!, Killing Times, Fuck!, AMOK, Feral House, etc.) End of the Century Club stares directly into the dark recesses of humanity and presents its viewers with the uncompromising extremes of our global culture. The real stuff. Where Too Negative presents itself as a glossy colour photo/art magazine, End of the Century Club is almost like a Whole Earth Catalog to the authentic macabre. With articles, interviews, reports, catalogues and hundreds of images spanning all manner of medical/autopsy/corpse photography, death journalism, serial killers, formalihide babies, war/shock accident/crime scenes, human intersection, murder art show, lobster boy, 3D stereo photography hall of horrors, donkey fucker (please no!), strange diseases of the world, amputee lovers, siamese twins, deformed children, amazing Photo Press historical stories, animal deformities, huge Hideshi Hino art gallery, book guide and interview, ALARMA! photo gallery, Trevor Brown art gallery, corpse photography, columns and features on and by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (Death, Hardcore Works, Too Negative, Ultra Negative, Billy, etc.), Father Yod (YaHoWha 13) record guide, Medical Atlas by Naruhiko Tanaka, lots of noise record reviews by Masami Akita (Merzbow) inc. Smell & Quim, M.B., Lustmord, Ramleh, Genocide Organ, Richard Ramirez, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Whitehouse, Extreme Hair Stench, Genital Masticator, Traci Lords Loves Noise, Morder, etc., interview with artist Wes Benscoter (heavy metal illustrator for Slayer, Mortician, Kreator, Deceased, Cattle Decapitation, etc) on the occasion of his NG Gallery body painting show, complete Freak book library, and all sorts of other curios from the mondo, bizarro realm. Lots of full colour gore.

Not for the fain-hearted. You'll feel like a shower after.

Very Good copy with dust jacket and obi.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Merzbow MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Smell & Quim Lustmord Ramleh Genocide Organ Whitehouse Morder Richard Ramirez Agoraphobic Nosebleed Extreme Hair Stench Genital Masticator Traci Lords Loves Noise Hideshi Hino Trevor Brown Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Wes Benscoter Core Magazine / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence Film / Video Sound / Music Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Japanese Photography Periodicals Photography Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

Terminal Body Play
by Masami Akita (Merzbow)

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

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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.

File under: Joel Peter Witkin Harrison Marks Piero Manzoni Yves Klein Allen Jones Otto Mühl Hermann Nitsch Rudolf Schwarzkoglar Merzbow Masami Akita (Merzbow) Seikyūsha / Tokyo Eros Out-of-print / Rare Art Fluxus Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Conceptual Art Counterculture Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Theory / Essay Sound / Music

Semiotext(e) Vol. III, No. 2, 1978 — Schizo-Culture

1978, English
Softcover, 226 pages, 25.5 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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Rare copy of the breakthrough "Schizo-Culture" issue of the original Semiotext(e) journal, published and edited by Sylvère Lotringer between 1974—1985, with later book-length issues appearing in the 1990s. This historical, controversial issue, “consummated the magazine’s rupture with academe”—Sylvère Lotringer. "Schizo-Culture' was published in the wake of the legendary 1975 “Schizo-Culture” conference, conceived by the early Semiotext(e) collective, that began as an attempt to introduce the then-unknown radical philosophies of post-’68 France to the American avant-garde. The event featured a series of seminal papers, from Deleuze’s first presentation of the concept of the “rhizome” to Foucault’s introduction of his History of Sexuality project. The conference was equally important on a political level, and brought together a diverse group of activists, thinkers, patients, and ex-cons in order to address the challenge of penal and psychiatric institutions. The combination proved to be explosive, but amid the fighting and confusion “Schizo-Culture” revealed deep ruptures in left politics, French thought, and American culture. The “Schizo-Culture” issue of the Semiotext(e) journal came three years later. Designed by a group of artists and filmmakers including Kathryn Bigelow and Denise Green with schizophrenia type/image-setting, the issue’s contributors included a kind of who’s who of New York’s downtown art scene (Jack Smith, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker...), documenting the artistic chaos, offering interviews with artists, theorists, writers, and No Wave and pre-punk musicians together with new texts from Deleuze, Lyotard, Foucault, Laing, and other conference participants and key “French theory” figures. It also featured a delirious essay about markings on the savage body, by one Alphonso F. Lingis; an intimate interview with a member of an all-female street gang in the Bronx; and a detailed history of behavior-modification programs inside US correctional institutions (post-Attica), written from inside by prisoner activist Eddie Griffin. Gary Indiana has said that reading “Schizo-Culture” was one of the things that made it clear to him that he would inevitably move to New York.

Includes: Michel Foucault, Robert Wilson, Francois Peraldi, Guy Hocquenghem, The Ramones, William S. Burroughs, Louis Wolfson, Lee Breuer, Eddie Griffin, Wendy Clark, Elie C. Messinger, David Cooper, Martine Barrat, John Giorno, Alphonso F. Lingis, Bernard-Henri Levy, Kathy Acker, Richard Foreman, André Cadere, Ulrike Meinhof, Gilles Deleuze, John Cage, Pat Steir , Jean-Jacques Abrahams, Phil Glass, Jack Smith, Jean Francois Lyotard, Douglas Dunn, and others...

Good copy with age wear, marking and tanning to raw stocks.

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