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.
1986, Japanese
Softcover, 160 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Fiction Inc. / Tokyo
$80.00 - In stock -
Issue No.28 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty bookshop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980—90s. Each issue covers different themes and features, heavy on fetishism.
Issue No.28, the "Fetishism" issue features collected writings and images around the theme of fetish by John Willie, Bizarre Magazine, Pierre Molinier, Irina Ionesco, Bernard Faucon (his incredible Summer Camp series), Irwing Klaw, Centurians Publishing Inc. bondage catalogues, Andy Warhol and much more... What's more, this issue comes complete with a green synthetic feather to kickstart your own sensual adventures.
Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.
1983, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Sun Publishing / Japan
$60.00 - In stock -
August 1983 issue of S&M Collector, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1972—1985 and founded by Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma. Cover artwork by Haruo Shinozaki. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, each issue of S&M Collector included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, illustrated fetish fiction, articles and a heavy selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries, with contributors including Oniroku Dan, Ran Akiyoshi, Shoji Oki, Yoji Muku, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Mito Akiyoshi, Sanpei Akashi, Juan Maeda, Yoko Ozuma, Toshimi Fuji, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Ran Akiyoshi, Haruo Shinozaki, Akira Minomura, Bill Ward, Osamu Nakahara, and many more. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads.
Good—Very Good copy with some general wear and cover rubbing.
1983, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Sun Publishing / Japan
$60.00 - In stock -
October 1983 issue of S&M Collector, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1972—1985 and founded by Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma. Cover artwork by Haruo Shinozaki. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, each issue of S&M Collector included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, illustrated fetish fiction, articles and a heavy selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries, with contributors including Oniroku Dan, Ran Akiyoshi, Shoji Oki, Yoji Muku, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Mito Akiyoshi, Sanpei Akashi, Juan Maeda, Yoko Ozuma, Toshimi Fuji, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Ran Akiyoshi, Haruo Shinozaki, Akira Minomura, Bill Ward, Osamu Nakahara, and many more. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads.
Good—Very Good copy with some general wear and cover rubbing.
1979, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sun Publishing / Japan
$65.00 - In stock -
January 1979 issue of S&M Collector, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1972—1985 and founded by Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma. Cover artwork by Haruo Shinozaki. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, each issue of S&M Collector included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, illustrated fetish fiction, articles and a heavy selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries, with contributors including Oniroku Dan, Ran Akiyoshi, Shoji Oki, Yoji Muku, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Mito Akiyoshi, Sanpei Akashi, Juan Maeda, Yoko Ozuma, Toshimi Fuji, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Ran Akiyoshi, Haruo Shinozaki, Akira Minomura, Bill Ward, Osamu Nakahara, and many more. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads.
Very Good copy with some general wear.
1974, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sun Publishing / Japan
$55.00 - In stock -
April 1974 issue of S&M Collector, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1972—1985 and founded by Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma. Cover artwork by Haruo Shinozaki. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, each issue of S&M Collector included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, illustrated fetish fiction, articles and a heavy selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries, with contributors including Oniroku Dan, Ran Akiyoshi, Shoji Oki, Yoji Muku, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Mito Akiyoshi, Sanpei Akashi, Juan Maeda, Yoko Ozuma, Toshimi Fuji, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Ran Akiyoshi, Haruo Shinozaki, Akira Minomura, Bill Ward, Osamu Nakahara, and many more. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads.
Very Good copy with some general wear/tanning/staple rusting.
1979, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sun Publishing / Japan
$65.00 - In stock -
April 1979 issue of S&M Collector, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1972—1985 and founded by Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma. Cover artwork by Haruo Shinozaki. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, each issue of S&M Collector included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, illustrated fetish fiction, articles and a heavy selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries, with contributors including Oniroku Dan, Ran Akiyoshi, Shoji Oki, Yoji Muku, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Mito Akiyoshi, Sanpei Akashi, Juan Maeda, Yoko Ozuma, Toshimi Fuji, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Ran Akiyoshi, Haruo Shinozaki, Akira Minomura, Bill Ward, Osamu Nakahara, and many more. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads.
Very Good copy with some general wear.
1974, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sun Publishing / Japan
$60.00 - In stock -
March 1974 issue of S&M Collector, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1972—1985 and founded by Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma. Cover artwork by Haruo Shinozaki. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, each issue of S&M Collector included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, illustrated fetish fiction, articles and a heavy selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries, with contributors including Oniroku Dan, Ran Akiyoshi, Shoji Oki, Yoji Muku, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Mito Akiyoshi, Sanpei Akashi, Juan Maeda, Yoko Ozuma, Toshimi Fuji, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Ran Akiyoshi, Haruo Shinozaki, Akira Minomura, Bill Ward, Osamu Nakahara, and many more. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads.
Very Good copy with some general wear and rusted staples.
1990, Japanese
Softcover, 278 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$50.00 - In stock -
May 1990 issue SM Spirits, the ‘obscenity graphic monthly’ cult fetish magazine from S&M Sniper publisher Million Publishing, published between 1984—1993. Heavy with glossy "Bad Taste" sadomasochistic bondage photo stories, manga, SM art galleries, illustrated fetish stories and articles, SM Spirits featured the regular contributions from pervert masters such as Oniroku Dan, Ran Kousei, Arisue Go, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Suehiro Maruo, Shin Tendouji, Junichi Tate, Shima Shikou, Akira Ishigaki, Keiichi Nakahara, Kinichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Urado, Eikichi Osada, Chimuo Nureki, Haruki Yukimura, Takashi Niida, and cover artwork by the amazing Masaru Ohtaki. From the late ‘80s, each monthly issue explored a title theme, such as: Women in masochism, Suicide, New pleasures in SM, Anarchy Readers, My Lolita Angel, The Kinbaku, Eros Feminine, Pornography, Secret Amusement, Comic Spirits (featuring artist Suehiro Maruo), to name a few.
Not for the faint hearted. Mature readers only!
Very Good copy, general light wear.
1992, Japanese
Softcover, 292 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$40.00 - In stock -
April 1992 issue SM Spirits, the ‘obscenity graphic monthly’ cult fetish magazine from S&M Sniper publisher Million Publishing, published between 1984—1993. Heavy with glossy "Bad Taste" sadomasochistic bondage photo stories, manga, SM art galleries, illustrated fetish stories and articles, SM Spirits featured the regular contributions from pervert masters such as Oniroku Dan, Ran Kousei, Arisue Go, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Suehiro Maruo, Shin Tendouji, Junichi Tate, Shima Shikou, Akira Ishigaki, Keiichi Nakahara, Kinichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Urado, Eikichi Osada, Chimuo Nureki, Haruki Yukimura, Takashi Niida, and cover artwork by the amazing Masaru Ohtaki. From the late ‘80s, each monthly issue explored a title theme, such as: Women in masochism, Suicide, New pleasures in SM, Anarchy Readers, My Lolita Angel, The Kinbaku, Eros Feminine, Pornography, Secret Amusement, Comic Spirits (featuring artist Suehiro Maruo), to name a few.
Not for the faint hearted. Mature readers only!
Very Good copy, general light wear.
1992, Japanese
Softcover, 278 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$40.00 - In stock -
February 1992 issue SM Spirits, the ‘obscenity graphic monthly’ cult fetish magazine from S&M Sniper publisher Million Publishing, published between 1984—1993. Heavy with glossy "Bad Taste" sadomasochistic bondage photo stories, manga, SM art galleries, illustrated fetish stories and articles, SM Spirits featured the regular contributions from pervert masters such as Oniroku Dan, Ran Kousei, Namio Harukawa, Arisue Go, Tadao Chigusa, Suehiro Maruo, Shin Tendouji, Junichi Tate, Shima Shikou, Akira Ishigaki, Keiichi Nakahara, Kinichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Urado, Eikichi Osada, Chimuo Nureki, Haruki Yukimura, Takashi Niida, and cover artwork by the amazing Masaru Ohtaki. From the late ‘80s, each monthly issue explored a title theme, such as: Women in masochism, Suicide, New pleasures in SM, Anarchy Readers, My Lolita Angel, The Kinbaku, Eros Feminine, Pornography, Secret Amusement, Comic Spirits (featuring artist Suehiro Maruo), to name a few.
Not for the faint hearted. Mature readers only!
Good copy with a spine split, general wear.
1991, Japanese
Softcover, 282 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$50.00 - In stock -
July 1991 issue SM Spirits, the ‘obscenity graphic monthly’ cult fetish magazine from S&M Sniper publisher Million Publishing, published between 1984—1993. Heavy with glossy "Bad Taste" sadomasochistic bondage photo stories, manga, SM art galleries, illustrated fetish stories and articles, SM Spirits featured the regular contributions from pervert masters such as Oniroku Dan, Ran Kousei, Arisue Go, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Suehiro Maruo, Shin Tendouji, Junichi Tate, Shima Shikou, Akira Ishigaki, Keiichi Nakahara, Kinichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Urado, Eikichi Osada, Chimuo Nureki, Haruki Yukimura, Takashi Niida, and cover artwork by the amazing Masaru Ohtaki.
Not for the faint hearted. Mature readers only!
Very Good copy, general light wear.
1975, Japanese
Softcover, 274 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sun Publishing / Japan
$70.00 $60.00 - In stock -
SM Kitan December 1975 issue, featuring cover artwork by legendary erotic fantasy artist Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982). A cult classic of vintage Japanese BDSM and Kinbaku (Japanese bondage), SM Kitan was a leading SM magazine published by the great Sun Publishing house, and was formerly known as S&M Abuhunter (changing its name to SM Kitan from August 1975). Heavy with wonderful artwork galleries in colour and bw, glossy bondage photo-features, illustrated fetish fiction, manga, fold-outs, and much more. Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982) illustrated many of the iconic covers, with regular contributors including Sotaro Aki, Tadao Chigusa, Namio Harukawa, Yoko Ozuma, Reiko Kita, Akiyoshi Akiyoshi, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Shoji Oki, Namio Harukawa, Akira Kasuga, and Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara).
Very Good copy. Light wear/age.
1973, Japanese
Softcover, 1306 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Taiyo books / Japan
$60.00 - In stock -
January 1973 issue of SM KING, legendary Japanese SM magazine edited by Oniroku Dan (1931—2011), "the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan", published by Taiyo books between 1972—1974, with each issue featuring many colour and b/w photo features, illustrations, and fetish fiction. Regular contributors included actress Naomi Tani, Toshiyuki Suma, Norio Sugiura, Takashi Tsujimura, Yoji Muku, Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara), Tadao Chigusa and Juan Maeda. This issue featuring cover artwork by legendary erotic fantasy artist Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982), plus the work of Tadao Chigusa, Ko Minomura (Reiko Kita), Naomi Tani, Toshiyuki Suma, Juan Maeda, Oniroku Dan, and many many more.
Very Good copy. General light wear/age/marking.
2010, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 21.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Creation Books / London
Shinbaku Books / London
$70.00 - In stock -
Long out-of-print first 2010 edition.
UKIYO-E ― "images from the floating world" ― were the most popular art-form of 19th century Japan. Like modern-day manga, these prints could be mass-produced and were admired by people from all sectors of society; and as in manga, the art of ukiyo-e included significant sub-genres dealing in violence, erotica and horror.
With unflinching images of weird sex, bloody carnage and grotesque, demonic ghosts and monsters, "Dream Spectres" is a powerful collection of the extremes of ukiyo-e, featuring the work of such artists as Yoshitoshi, Ekin, Kunichika, Yoshiiku, Kunisada, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Yoshitsuya, Hiroshige, Kyosai, and Chikanobu.
"Dream Spectres" features over 170 amazing full-colour images, including the complete Eimei Nijuhasshuku ("28 Blood Atrocities") of Yoshitoshi and Yoshiiku, and ranges in content from bondage and bestiality to decapitations, demons and designs for classic irezumi (body tattoos). This is Japanese art not only at its extremes of imagination, but often at its most highly accomplished and innovative.
VG copy
?, Japanese
Softcover, 174 pages, 20.5 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Surugadai Shobo / Tokyo
$55.00 - In stock -
Rare copy of A Bizarre Pictorial, a one off, undated (looks to be late 1960s/very early 1970s) publication possibly affiliated with Erotica, Japan's erotic magazine for bibliophiles, published in the 1960s—1970s by Misaki Bookstore. A Bizarre Pictorial, published by Surugadai Bookstore, is "The Museum of Beauty, Mystery, and Perversion; The House of Pranks, The House of Cruelty, and The House of Nonsense". A books of Eros and Thantos — packed with heavily illustrated (colour and b/w) features, articles, photo and illustration galleries around the aforementioned chaptered themes, heavy with sadism, demonology, kinbaku, medieval perversions, history of misery, corpses, crime, possessions, black humour, Shunga artworks, and Japanese monsters (yokai). Essentially an illustrated book of weird and macabre world histories, phenomenons, perversions and customs, care of Kiyoshi Sumida, legendary bondage artist and editor Ueda Seishiro, artist Kawanabe Kyosai, and many more.
G—VG copy with light general edge-wear to covers and spine.
1994, English
Softcover, 132 pages, 27 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
AK Press / Edinburgh
$100.00 - Out of stock
First 1994 AK Press printing of the book anthology of the first three issues of ANSWER Me!, the short-lived but ever-controversial Los Angeles zine edited by Jim and Debbie Goad and published between 1991 and 1994. At the forefront of 1990's "End of the Century"/anti-humanist/nihilist/piss-take underground rant/black humour publishing, ANSWER Me! focused on the social pathologies of interest to the Los Angeles–based couple ("Two Against The World, honest assholes in a world of dishonest ones"). The anthology sold thousands before going out of print. ANSWER Me! has been blamed for a White House shooting and a triple suicide. It has been banned in several countries and put on trial for obscenity in the USA. Chock full of well-written rants, interviews, and articles on topics ranging from music and subcultures to sex, love, hate, murder, serial killers, and suicide, this fat, gorgeous anthology contains the legendary rant-zine’s first three issues in their entirety.
"ANSWER Me! was so wonderful because it reminded me of when my uncle Joey turned me on to National Lampoon when I was eight years old. After National Lampoon I was always looking for uglier forms of humor, and then comes along ANSWER Me!"—Shaun Partridge, Partridge Family Temple
The mouthpiece of Jim and Debbie Goad, ANSWER Me! also featured written and illustrated contributors, from comic artists to serial killers, such as Adam Parfrey (Feral House/Apocalypse Party), Mike Diana, Boyd Rice, Peter Sotos, Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, Molly Kiely, Jim Blanchard, Frank Kozik, Randall Phillip, Nick Bougas, Mark David Chapman, John Wayne Gacy, Trevor Brown, Kenneth Bianchi, Gary M. Heidnik, Phil Cisco, Marcel Ruijters, Larry Wessel, Tom Crites, Shaun Partridge, Ottis Toole, Henry Lee Lucas, Timothy Patrick Butler, Coop, who contributed the cover artwork to the anthology (and also the following issue 4), and others.
Issue No. 1 (October 1991) features interviews with Russ Meyer, Timothy Leary, Holly Woodlawn, Kid Frost, Public Enemy, Iceberg Slim, and pieces on Bakersfield, California, Sunset Boulevard, masturbation in literature, and Twelve-Step programs.
Issue No. 2 (July 1992) features Anton LaVey, David Duke, Al Goldstein, El Duce of The Mentors, the Geto Boys, Ray Dennis Steckler, 100 serial killers and mass murderers, Vietnamese gangs, and Mexican murder magazines.
Issue No. 3 (July 1993) features Jack Kevorkian, Al Sharpton, NAMBLA, the Kids of Widney High, Boyd Rice, Suzanne Muldowney, 100 suicides, guns, Andrei Chikatilo, pedophilia in Steven Spielberg's work, Mexican deformity comics[clarification needed], paintings and drawings by murderers, and a prank call to a suicide hotline.
"THIS IS HATE LITERATURE. IF YOU AREN'T FILLED WITH HATRED, THIS BOOK ISN'T FOR YOU. IT'S NOT WHAT YOUR MOTHER WARNED YOU ABOUT, BECAUSE THE OLD BITCH COULD NEVER IMAGINE SOMETHING SO VILE.
YOUR STUBBY, UNDESERVING FINGERS HOLD THE ENTIRE FIRST THREE ISSUES OF ANSWER Me! MAGAZINE-HERE ARE THE GENESIS, EXODUS, AND LEVITICUS OF THE "BIBLE OF HATRED." ANSWER Me! WAS CREATED BY TWO HUMANS WHO WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO DENY THEIR OWN HUMANITY. THEY HAVE SAVAGELY SWALLOWED EVERY EXISTING SOCIAL PATHOLOGY, SLOSHED THEM AROUND INSIDE THEIR BILIOUS STOMACHS, AND REGURGITATED THE ONLY MAGAZINE WORTH HATING.
HATRED IS THE ONLY RATIONAL RESPONSE TO AN UNLOVABLE WORLD. LOVE IS FOR EVERYONE;
HATRED IS FOR THE FEW. IF YOU READ ANSWER Me!, YOU WILL BUILD SELF-ESTEEM
BY EXPLOITING THE SUFFERING OF OTHERS. THROUGH THE FINE ART OF "SCAPEGOADING," YOU WILL LEARN TO BLAME THE WORLD FOR YOUR PROBLEMS.
HATE EVERYONE YOU SEE TODAY.
YOU'LL FEEL BETTER.
HATRED IS THE EASY WAY OUT.
HATRED WILL HEAL YOU.
HATRED IS THE ONLY ANSWER."
—book jacket blurb
Mature audiences only!
VG copy with wear to extremities.
1996, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 24.5 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Creation Books / London
$55.00 - In stock -
First 1996 edition.
Twins George and Mike Kuchar were born in the Bronx in 1942. As teenage cinephiles, both began producing films based on their own version of Hollywood movies, going on to produce a string of low budget classics such as: 1 Was A Teenage Rumpot, Pussy On A Hot Tin Roof, Mike's Sins Of The Fleshapoids and George's infamous Hold Me While I'm Naked.
Baltimore-born John Waters was profoundly and irreversibly affected by the visionary, trashy aesthetic of the '60s underground, especially the Kuchars, who Waters insists "...made me want to make films. THEY are the reason". His films were also influenced by the low budget exploitation pictures of directors like Russ Meyer and Herschell Gordon Lewis. Like his predecessors, Waters used a regular cast of friends, which included Divine, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole and Cookie Mueller, all to become trash stars/icons. He is the director of such trash classics as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living; his more recent films have included Hairspray and Serial Mom.
Camp America includes interviews not only with John Waters, but also with members of his notorious entourage; plus extensive interviews with George & Mike Kuchar and a comprehensive assessment of their career and influence as well as a unique feature on underground actress Marion Eaton, star of Curt McDowell's Thundercrack! The book has many rare photographs, plus a filmography and index, and not only documents a fascinating period of extreme underground film-making, but contextualises it firmly within the social fabric of the times, bringing the New York, Baltimore and San Francisco underground/sleaze film scenes of the '60s and '70s vividly to life.
Good copy with crease to back cover, wear to corners, thumb marking to block edge.
1989, English / German
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 392 pages, 24 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
$165.00 - Out of stock
Absolutely essential reference work on the artists associated with the Vienna Actionism group, the second volume of an exhaustive account of Viennese Actionism, this book covering the later years of the movement—1960 through 1971.
Viennese Actionism was the most extreme artistic project of the 1960s, mostly preceding and always surpassing the other performance art, body art and happenings in terms of sheer violent excess. Though never officially a group, Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler shared a similar reaction to the restrictive political and cultural climate of the Austrian art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. They established the body as a site of exploration, and its blood, sweat and excrement as art material: performance as the transgression of both social and religious taboo, and art itself as a violent, tragic recognition of brute fact.
Volume two of an exhaustive two-volume exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Wien, March—April 1989 that traveled to Museum Ludwig, Köln, August—September 1989. This handsome volume presents a vast collection of images and essays about Viennese Actionism between 1960—1971, focusing on work produced after 1964, particularly work involving process and performance. Includes essays by Hubert Klocker, entitled "The Dramaturgy of the Organic" and "The Shattered Mirror"; an essay by Konrad Oberhuber entitled "Thoughts on Viennese Actionism" ; biography, action chronology, and related images for artists Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler; bibliography.
Edited by Hubert Klocker.
Texts in both English and German.
Highly recommended.
Near Fine copy.
2006, Japanese / French
Hardcover (w. slipcase), 26.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Seirin Kogeisha / Tokyo
$350.00 - In stock -
Now very rare out-of-print collection "1970, Toshio Saeki" by the Japanese master of Ero guro, published in 2006 by Seirin Kogeisha. Published in this hardcover, slipcased, numbered edition of 2000 copies, "1970, Toshio Saeki" reproduces a fine selection of colour and b/w works of the erotic bizarre, accompanied by captions and postface by Saeki himself, in Japanese and French.
Toshio Saeki (1945—2019) was an illusive Japanese illustrator and painter, and icon of 1970s Tokyo counterculture, known for combining Japanese folklore, Yōkai spirits and elements of Western art with his own sophisticated aesthetics to create a unique, sensational world of eros, dark humour, and horror. Given the title “Erotic Engineer” by Timothy Leary, Saeki's provocative art broke all sexual taboos, questioned Japanese ideology and traditional views on love, desire and gender roles. Saeki’s surgically-precise graphic work is closely related to the Japanese cultural phenomenon ‘Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense’ (ero, guro, nansensu).
“Toshio Saeki conjures death with a pen”—Shūji Terayama, 1969.
Very Good copy in VG slipcase.
1991, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket + obi), 128 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Heibonsha / Tokyo
$65.00 - In stock -
Wonderful photo-book chronology of the world of Shūji Terayama (1935—1983) and his experimental theatre troupe Tenjō Sajiki (with Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, Fumiko Takagi, ...), a major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene of the 1960s and 70s. Terayama's activities encompass a who's-who of the Japanese avant-garde arts and literature of the time. This book visually documents it all; the filmography, performances, installations, happenings, exhibitions, posters, publications, and all else that resonated from Japan’s most revered and provocative avant-garde film-maker and his collaborators. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of illustrations in colour, duo and b/w with Japanese commentary, biographies and chronology. A wonderful, visually mind-blowing reference for anyone interested in the work of Terayama, Tenjō Sajiki, Surrealist performance, or Japanese avant-garde underground (Angura) theatre.
Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. In 1967 Terayama founded Tenjō Sajiki with Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi, a Japanese experimental theater troupe. A major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the group produced a number of stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.
Very Good—Near Fine
1998, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Ohta Shuppan / Tokyo
$190.00 - Out of stock
"IT'S UNBELIEVABLE!! IT'S REAL UNDERGROUND"
Very rare, long out-of-print full anthology re-print of the even longer out-of-print cult classic Japanese ero manga, "Invasion of Sex Monsters From Outerspace" that was originally only published between 1967-1968 by artists Ryuji Shima, Kaname Suganuma and author Ken Kondo in a bi-monthly true story manga magazine. At the forefront of Mondo Erotica, "Invasion...", the book, collects all of the comic stories in full bizarro glory, without alteration — with all of its politically-incorrect exploitation rampage madness kept true to the originals, with all of the kinky monsters and their many special powers and perversions, plus additional artwork galleries, commentaries and essays by Yoshihiro Yonezawa tracing the history of the underground era of Japanese Bizarre comics that blossomed in the hippie counterculture of the mid-1960s and the broader history of post-war Erotica.
"HUNDREDS OF MONSTERS ARE COMING!!!!"
Fine copy, light tanning to page edges.
1964 , French
Hardcover, 192 pages, 30.5 x 24.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Pont Royal Del Duca - Laffont
Paris
$100.00 - Out of stock
First 1964 hardcover edition of Histoire de l'insolite (History of the Unusual) by Romi. Preface by Philippe Soupault, artistic design by Pierre Chapelot. An incredible visual survey of the weird and wonderful from the history of occultism to the absurd, the cabinet of curiosities to the voyages of science fiction, demonology to psychosis, the Fin de siècle, Futurists, Surrealists, Dadaists, Pataphysicians, the visionaries, the mediums, the curios, the macabre, the bizarre. Profusely illustrated in mono and duotone with many pasted-in lush colour plates, this is a beautiful visual reference of the fantastic throughout history. Chapters include (translated from French): The Sources of the Unusual - A Legendary Bestiary - Fantastic Voyages - The Design to Surprise - Unusual Enterprises, featuring Alfred Jarry, Giuseppe Arcimbaldo, P.T. Barnum, Edward Lear, Hélène Smith, Raymond Roussel, Alessandro Cagliostro, Stanislao Lepri, Hieronymus Bosch, Ferdinand Cheval, and hundreds of other artists, poets, mystics and unknowns. With a preface by none other than Surrealist founder, Dadaist, writer, poet, novelist, critic, political activist, Philippe Soupault (1897-1990).
Very Good copy, highly recommended.
1996/2003, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi), 176 pages, 21 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Treville / Tokyo
Pan-Exotica / Tokyo
$300.00 - Out of stock
The second volume of Toshio Saeki's erotic nightmare masterpiece, "Chimushi II" was published in 1996 by Treville, only available in Japan, and now very collectible in every edition. A lavishly illustrated book collection of every darkest sexual depravity rendered in vibrant colour by Japanese master of Ero guro, Toshio Saeki, published by Treville and Pan-Exotica, here in the 2003 softcover edition. In the introduction, Timothy Leary writes, "We salute the style and grace with which you tease our secret sensualities. And teach us how our dark, twisted images and fearful fantasies are created by our own minds."
Toshio Saeki (1945—2019) was an illusive Japanese illustrator and painter, and icon of 1970s Tokyo counterculture, known for combining Japanese folklore, Yōkai spirits and elements of Western art with his own sophisticated aesthetics to create a unique, sensational world of eros, dark humour, and horror. Given the title “Erotic Engineer” by Timothy Leary, Saeki's provocative art broke all sexual taboos, questioned Japanese ideology and traditional views on love, desire and gender roles. Saeki’s surgically-precise graphic work is closely related to the Japanese cultural phenomenon ‘Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense’ (ero, guro, nansensu).
“Toshio Saeki conjures death with a pen”—Shūji Terayama, 1969.
Good—Very Good copy, with light wear/bumping to cover extremities, interior Fine. With Average obi inserted.
2024, English / French
Hardcover, 128 pages, 24 x 29.5 cm
Published by
Arsenicgalerie / Paris
$78.00 - Out of stock
The first monograph on the Japanese artist of desire.
In this lavishly illustrated book, Xavier-Gilles Néret analyzes the work of Yoshifumi Hayashi from an existential and philosophical as well as artistic perspective, drawing on his interviews with the Japanese artist who, for almost half a century, has shamelessly asserted the importance of sexual desire and the body in all its material dimensions.
From his erotic drawings of callipagous women to his sexualized landscapes, from his vulvar and ithyphallic flowers to his "still lifes" teeming with life, Hayashi pursues his quest for the mysteries of matter through the subtle play of light in the gradations of lead pencil, of which he has become a virtuoso alchemist, to fuel irrepressible desire and "repassionate life".
Yoshifumi Hayashi (born 1948 in Fukuoka, Japan) is an artist specializing in scenes of female erotica. In 1974 he moved to Paris, where he began to produce pencil drawings. 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… Hayashi's art comes straight from the darkest depths of his subconscious and the artist lays his innermost paranoias, fetishes and obsessions. Despite this profoundly personal quality his work is also highly and objectively erotic.
Text by Xavier-Gilles Néret.
Foreword by Catherine Robbe-Grillet.