World Food Books

Forbidden History : The State, Society, and the Regulation of Sexuality in Modern Europe
Edited by John C. Fout

1992, English
Softcover, 410 pages, 23.17 x 16.66 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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From incest to infanticide, from breast-feeding and women's sexuality to female prostitution, from pornography to reproductive politics, and from the first homosexual rights movement to AIDS—this anthology addresses these and other crucial questions concerning the regulation of sexuality: How have society's values and attitudes toward sexuality and morality changed over the centuries? Why and how has the state sought to criminalize certain forms of sexual behavior and to control reproduction? How have churches tried to influence the state in its regulation of sexuality?

Contributions from a diverse group of prominent scholars representing a variety of disciplines are included in this anthology that spans European history. Essays by Randolph Trumbach on "Sex, Gender, and Identity in Modern Culture: Male Sodomy and Female Prostitution in Enlightenment London"; Ruth Perry on "Colonizing the Breast: Sexuality and Maternity in Eighteenth Century England"; Theo van der Meer on "Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late Eighteenth Century Amsterdam"; Robin Ann Sheets on "Pornography, Fairy Tales, and Feminism: Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber'"; and James W. Jones on "Discourses on and of AIDS in West Germany, 1986-1990." Offering the most up-to-date scholarship from a significant and growing field, this collection is essential for both students and faculty in social history, family history, women's and gender studies, gay studies, sociology and literature. These essays were originally published in the Journal of the History of Sexuality.

John C. Fout is professor of history at Bard College. He is the founding editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and general editor of The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society, a book series published by the University of Chicago Press.

Very Good copy.

File under: John C. Fout Angela Carter Robin Ann Sheets Randolph Trumbach Ruth Perry Theo van der Meer James W. Jones University of Chicago Press / Chicago Out-of-print / Rare Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Philosophy Eros Feminism Sociology / Politics Crime / Violence LGBTQ+ Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

INFORMATION
by Kynaston McShine, Lucy Lippard, et al.

1970, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MoMA / New York

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Extremely rare first 1970 edition of MoMA's landmark book on conceptual art, published to accompany this groundbreaking avant-garde show.

In the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show and attendant catalog together assembled the work of more than 150 artists from 15 countries to explore the parameters and possibilities of the emerging art practices of the era. Noting the participating artists’ attunement to the “mobility and change that pervades their time,” McShine underscored their interest in “ways of rapidly exchanging ideas, rather than embalming the idea in an ‘object.’” Indeed, much of the work in the exhibition engaged mass-communications systems, such as broadcast television and the postal service, and addressed viewers directly, often encouraging their participation in return.

The catalog, rather than merely document the show, functioned autonomously: it included a list of recommended reading, a chance-based index by critic Lucy Lippard, and individual artist contributions in the form of photographic documentation, textual description, drawings and diagrams—some relating to work in the exhibition and others to artworks as yet unrealized.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language Press, Art & Project, Richard Artschwager, David Askevold, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Barrio, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, George Brecht, Stig Broegger, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Carballa, Christopher Cook, Roger Cutforth, Carlos D'Alessio, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Group Frontera, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Giorno Poetry Systems, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Randy Hardy, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Cildo Campos Meirelles, Marta Minujin, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, Newspaper, Group Oho, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Paul Pechter, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Alejandro Puente, Markus Raetz, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, J.M. Sanejouand, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Erik Thygesen, John Van Saun, Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

Kynaston McShine was formerly Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear, single spine crack, all crisp, clean interior and tightly bound copy of a book that usually sees serious page detachments. Best copy we have seen.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre Siah Armajani Keith Arnatt Art & Language Press Art & Project Richard Artschwager David Askevold Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge John Baldessari Michael Baldwin Barrio Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Bernhard & Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Bill Bollinger George Brecht Stig Broegger Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden James Lee Byars Jorge Luis Carballa Christopher Cook Roger Cutforth Carlos D'Alessio Hanne Darboven Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Group Frontera Hamish Fulton Gilbert & George Giorno Poetry Systems Dan Graham Hans Haacke Ira Joel Haber Randy Hardy Michael Heizer Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Robert Huot Peter Hutchinson Richards Jarden Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol Lewitt Lucy Lippard Richard Long Bruce McLean Cildo Campos Meirelles Marta Minujin Robert Morris N.E. Thing Co. Bruce Nauman New York Graphic Workshop Newspaper Group Oho Helio Oiticica Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Paul Pechter Giuseppe Penone Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Alejandro Puente Markus Raetz Yvonne Rainer Klaus Rinke Edward Ruscha J.M. Sanejouand Richard Sladden Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Ettore Sottsass Jr. Erik Thygesen John Van Saun Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz Bernar Venet Jeff Wall Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Kynaston McShine Lucy Lippard MoMA / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Fluxus Minimal Art Arte Povera Photography Curatorial Art Counterculture Ecology / Earth Film / Video Sculpture / Installation

Judith Bernstein
Hard

2018, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 16 pages, 13 x 19 cm
Edition of 150,
Published by Innen Books / Zürich

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"Hard" is a limited edition publication by New York artist Judith Bernstein. Published in 2018 by Innen Books in Zürich in an edition of 150 copies only on the occasion of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, September 21-23, 2018.

Judith Bernstein (b. 1942) is a New York artist best known for her phallic drawings and paintings. Bernstein uses her art as a vehicle for her outspoken feminist and anti-war activism, provocatively drawing psychological links between the two. Her best-known work features her iconic motif of an anthropomorphized screw, which has become the basis for a number of allegories and visual puns. During the beginning of the Feminist Art Movement, Bernstein was a founding member of the all-women's cooperative A.I.R. Gallery in New York. Throughout her life, Bernstein has also been involved in the Guerilla Girls, Art Workers' Coalition, and Fight Censorship Group.

File under: Judith Bernstein Guerrilla Girls Innen Books / Zürich Art Drawing Painting Feminism

Magma - Body And Words In Italian And Lithuanian Women's Art From 1965 To The Present
Edited by Benedetta Carpi de Resmini and Laima Kreivytė

2018, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Quodlibet / Italy

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This catalogue is published on the occasion of the second part of the exhibition curated by Benedetta Carpi de Resmini and Laima Kreivytė at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome, expanded with a selection of more than 60 works. The first show took place at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius. The exhibition presents works by Italian and Lithuanian women artists that explore the interplay between language and body. The exhibition foregrounds artistic tactics that transform the language of the body, practices of writing and reading, embodied or dispersed words and letters. At the same time, it is an articulation of women's creativity and manifold experiences which can be compared to magna bursting from a volcano with a (per)formative power to transform the environment.

The title of the exhibition is inspired by the international exhibition of women artists "Magma," held in Verona in 1977 and curated by Romana Loda, in which the image of magma symbolized the quiet, dynamic, and scorching power that was energizing the women's and feminist movement. The separated letters of the 2017 "M/A\G/M\A" exhibition reinforce the importance of word play and deconstruction. This word is written and pronounced the same way in Lithuanian, Italian, English, and other languages. In no particular chronological order, "M/A\G/M\A" exhibition reveal how, in Italian and Lithuanian art of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the female body and linguistic (de)constructions became conceptual critical means for encouraging a re-evaluation of woman's relationship with herself and society.

Italian women artists' works from the 1960s resonate with Lithuanian women artists' efforts from the 1990s until today to transform vocabulary, language, and text, to find their voices. The exhibition highlights connections between artists of different generations and geopolitical contexts: expressions of pre-verbal existence; new vocabulary and writing the body; the identity and consciousness of the woman artist; disruption of the symbolic order; language as a political tool; reading the body. Visual and sound works - from journal-like video to vocal performance, from alphabets written with bodies to unreadable handwritings and performances - are supplemented with artists' books, posters, and texts.

Artists: Jurga Barilaitė, Mirella Bentivoglio, Tomaso Binga, Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė, Violeta Bubelytė, Cooltūristės, Coro Collective, Amelia Etlinger, Chiara Fumai, Laura Garbštienė, Nicole Gravier, Karla Gruodis, Kristina Inčiūraitė, Justė Janulytė, Eglė Kuckaitė, Lina Lapelytė, Ketty La Rocca, Maria Lai, Aurelija Maknytė, Lucia Marcucci, Verita Monselles, Paulina Eglė Pukytė, Eglė Rakauskaitė, Cloti Ricciardi, Eglė Ridikaitė, Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, Suzanne Santoro, Laisvydė Šalčiūtė, Eglė Vertelkaitė.

File under: Jurga Barilaitė Mirella Bentivoglio Tomaso Binga Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė Violeta Bubelytė Cooltūristės Coro Collective Amelia Etlinger Chiara Fumai Laura Garbštienė Nicole Gravier Karla Gruodis Kristina Inčiūraitė Justė Janulytė Eglė Kuckaitė Lina Lapelytė Ketty La Rocca Maria Lai Aurelija Maknytė Lucia Marcucci Verita Monselles Paulina Eglė Pukytė Eglė Rakauskaitė Cloti Ricciardi Eglė Ridikaitė Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė Suzanne Santoro Laisvydė Šalčiūtė Eglė Vertelkaitė Benedetta Carpi de Resmini Laima Kreivytė Quodlibet / Italy Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Film / Video Conceptual Art Theory / Essay SALE

Works and Words
International Art Manifestation Amsterdam

2018, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 21 cm x 30 cm
Ed. of 1000,
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

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This publication is an unedited reprint of the catalogue originally published by De Appel in 1980 as a follow-up to the international art manifestation ‘Works and Words’. The event sought to break with the one-way traffic of Western artists traveling to the East by inviting artists from Eastern Bloc countries to Amsterdam. The invited artists, theoreticians, film-makers, and art historians represented a broad spectrum of practices, theoretical approaches, and developments. The manifestation resulted in an active exchange of ideas, new insights, and collaborations. Indicative of the early days of De Appel, the project reflects the groundbreaking forms of artistic practice it represented.

Artists: Franklin Aalders, Jaroslav Anděl, Gábor Attalai, Zoran Belic, Jerzy Bereś, Gábor Bódy, Branko Bubenik, Michel Cardena, Nuša and Srečo Dragan, Ľubomír Ďurček, Miklós Erdély, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Tomislav Gotovac, Frank Gribling, Buky Grinberg, Vladimir Gudac, Tibor Hajas, Zlatko Hajdler, Janusz Haka, Károly Halasz, Ágnes Háy, Vladimír Havrilla, Nan Hoover, Sanja Iveković, Servie Janssen, Zoltan Jeney, Gyorgy Jovanovic, Cezary Jaworski, Jacek Jozwiak, Szigmond Károlyi, Karoly Kelemen, Michal Kern, Milan Knížák, Tomislav Kobija, Július Koller, Mirko Komosar, Tomasz Konart, Jiří Kovanda, Harrie de Kroon, Zofia Kulik, Romuald Kutera, Paweł Kwiek, Przemyslaw Kwiek, KwieKulik, Natalia LL, Andrzej Lachowicz, Dušan Makavejev, Ivan Martinac, Dalibor Martinis, Raùl Marroquin, Dóra Maurer, Antoni Mikolajczyk, Karel Miler, Jan Mlčoch, Teresa Murak, Vjekoslav Nakić, Mihovil Pansini, Aldo Paquola, Andrzej Paruzel, Sef Peeters, Vladimir Petek, Sandor Pinczehelyi, Reindeer Werk (Dirk Larsen & Tom Puckey), Jaroslav Richtr, Józef Robakowski, Vinco Rozman, Tomasz Sikorski, Petr Štembera, Mladen Stilinović, Peter Timar, Teresa Tyszkiewicz and Zdzislaw Sosnowski, Goran Svob, Janusz Szczerek, István Sziranyi, Raša Todosijević, Endre Tot, Janos Toth, Sava Trifkovic, Ulay, Jiri Valoch, Ante Verzotti, Janos Veto, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Ryszard Waśko, Albert van der Weide, Dobroslav Zborník.

File under: Michel Cardena Nuša and Srečo Dragan Ľubomír Ďurček Miklós Erdély Ivan Ladislav Galeta Tomislav Gotovac Frank Gribling Buky Grinberg Vladimir Gudac Tibor Hajas Zlatko Hajdler Janusz Haka Károly Halasz Ágnes Háy Vladimír Havrilla Nan Hoover Sanja Iveković Servie Janssen Zoltan Jeney Gyorgy Jovanovic Cezary Jaworski Jacek Jozwiak Szigmond Károlyi Karoly Kelemen Michal Kern Milan Knížák Tomislav Kobija Július Koller Mirko Komosar Tomasz Konart Jiří Kovanda Harrie de Kroon Zofia Kulik Romuald Kutera Paweł Kwiek Przemyslaw Kwiek KwieKulik Natalia LL Andrzej Lachowicz Ivan Martinac Dalibor Martinis Raùl Marroquin Karel Miler Jan Mlčoch Teresa Murak Vjekoslav Nakić Mihovil Pansini Aldo Paquola Andrzej Paruzel Sef Peeters Vladimir Petek Sandor Pinczehelyi Reindeer Werk (Dirk Larsen & Tom Puckey) Jaroslav Richtr Józef Robakowski Vinco Rozman Tomasz Sikorski Petr Stembera Mladen Stilinović Peter Timar Teresa Tyszkiewicz and Zdzislaw Sosnowski Ryszard Waśko Albert van der Weide Dobroslav Zborník Sava Trifkovic Ulay Jiri Valoch Ante Verzotti Janos Veto Zbigniew Warpechowski Dušan Makavejev Josine van Droffelaar Piotr Olszanski Roma / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Art Conceptual Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art SALE

Remedios Varo
La Obra De Remedios Varo

1964, Spanish
Softcover (staple-bound), 36 pages, 21.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museo de Arte Moderno / Mexico City Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes / Mexico City

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Very rare 1964 catalogue of surrealist Remedios Varo (1908—1963), recorded as the first book devoted solely to the work of Varo, published on the occasion of the major survey exhibition presented by the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno and Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, August 3—31, 1964. Profusely illustrated throughout with the paintings of Varo reproduced in colour and b/w, plus portrait of the artist. Introduction by Horacio Flores-Sanchez, essays by Raul Flores Guerrero and Carlos Pellicer. Texts in Spanish. A wonderful historical document of a visionary artist.

Remedios Varo (1908—1963)
During her childhood in Spain, Varo was influenced by her engineer father, who taught her to draw, and her strict Catholic schooling, against which she rebelled. Following her graduation from art school, she pursued Surrealism and political change. She moved to Paris in 1937, later finding that she could not return to Spain following the Spanish Civil War. Varo associated and exhibited with the Surrealists, exploring magic, alchemy, and analytical psychology. As World War II threatened Paris, Spanish refugees came under threat. Varo was arrested and held in early 1940. After her release, she fled Paris in the face of the Nazi invasion, and by late 1941 had secured passage to Mexico. In Mexico, Varo remained friends with fellow refugees from her European Surrealist circle, including artist Leonora Carrington, who became her closest friend and collaborator. In the late 1940s, as she supported herself through commercial illustration, Varo began to develop her mature personal style. During succeeding decades, she devoted increased time and energy to her art, and she delved further into the fantastical sources that captured her imagination. Her death of a heart attack in 1963 occurred as she was reaching new renown.

Very Good copy with light wear to boards. Previous owner inscription to inside front cover.

File under: Remedios Varo Horacio Flores-Sanchez Raul Flores Guerrero Carlos Pellicer Museo de Arte Moderno / Mexico City Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes / Mexico City Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Feminism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drawing Occult / Esoterica

Adrian Piper
A Retrospective

1999, English
Softcover, 218 pages, 30.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fine Arts Gallery - University of Maryland / Baltimore

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Scarce first extensive monographic catalogue published in conjunction with Adrian Piper's major survey exhibition held at the Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, October 14, 1999 - January 15, 2000. Traveled to the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, October 4, 2001 - January 13, 2002. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and colour, alongside accompanying texts by Piper, Maurice Berger, Jean Fisher, Kobena Mercer, Laura Cottingham, and Dara Meyers-Kingsley. With illustrated checklist and bibliography. Cover features her "Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features" (1981) work.

Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (b. 1948) is an American conceptual artist and philosopher. Her work addresses ostracism, otherness, racial passing and racism by using various traditional and non-traditional media. The only African American in the early conceptual art movement of the 1960s, she has profoundly influenced the language and form of Conceptual art in America and is widely recognised today through her equally important writings.

Very Good-Fine first edition. Light tanning to edges and light bump to top-right corner.

File under: Adrian Piper Adrian Piper Maurice Berger Jean Fisher Kobena Mercer Laura Cottingham Dara Meyers-Kingsley Fine Arts Gallery - University of Maryland / Baltimore Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Feminism Out-of-print / Rare

Suzanne Santoro
Per una espressione nuova / Towards a New Expression

1974, English / Italian
Softcover, 40 pages, 20.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Rivolta Femminile / Rome

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First, extremely rare, edition of Suzanne Santoro's artist's book "Per una espressione nuova / Towards a New Expression", published in a small edition in Rome 1974 by Santaro and The Rivolta Femminile ("Women's Revolt") publishing house, founded in 1970 by Carla Lonzi. In the 1960s, Suzanne Santoro (b. 1946, Brooklyn New York), after training at the School of Visual Arts in New York and NYU and being affiliated with the minimalist and conceptual New York context of the 1960s, moved to Rome where she studied classical sculpture. Here her artistic path crossed with the experience of feminist militancy, through her connection to Rivolta Femminile and Carla Lonzi and co-founded the Beato Angelico Cooperative (CBA) and exhibition space. Her research immediately focused on restoring those characteristics of the female image that had been intentionally hidden or transformed by the patriarchal tradition of visual arts, culminating in this artist’s libretto. Mysterious, beautiful and fiercely feminist, Towards a New Expression articulates, through a photographic collection of images, a critical stance towards the "subordinate and unclarified" portrayal of women's genitalia in art from classical to contemporary times. Santoro's book generated some controversy when it was censored by The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Very rare, especially in this first edition. Good copy, well preserved, only with notable but attractive ex-libris "Moon Books" rubber stamp mark on back cover and another to the front end page. The title is written on the blank spine for filing into the collection. It is believed this was from a community library in Berkley. General light wear/marking.

File under: Suzanne Santoro Rivolta Femminile / Rome Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Photography Art

The Dance of Moon and Sun : Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism

2023, English
Hardcover, 256 pages, 25.4 x 18 cm
Published by Fulgur Press / UK

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Essays on the art and writings of the long-neglected British occultist and Surrealist.

Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until Richard Shillitoe's 2009 book Ithell Colquhoun: Magician Born of Nature initiated her revaluation--followed by Fulgur's 2016 publication Decad of Intelligence, the Tate's 2019 acquisition of more than 5,000 Colquhoun works and Amy Hale's 2020 biography. Colquhoun occupies a unique place within the lineage of occult Surrealist painters such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, as her presence in the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition Milk of Dreams demonstrated.

This volume is the first critical examination of her diverse legacy, compiling papers from a 2018 conference on Colquhoun and her contemporaries Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and Stella Snead. Contributors explore themes of authorship and agency, Colquhoun's drawing practice, her Celtic motifs, British Surrealism and alchemy.

File under: Ithell Colquhoun Leonora Carrington Leonor Fini Stella Snead Tilly Craig Victoria Ferentinou Fulgur Press / UK Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Feminism Painting Drawing Art Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica

Elemental Passions
by Luce Irigaray

1992, English
Softcover, 112 pages, 13.79 x 21.59 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Routledge / London

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First 1992 Routledge edition.

Elemental Passions explores the man/woman relationship in a series of meditations of the senses and the formal elements. Its form resembles a series of love letters in which, however, the identity-and even the reality-of the adressee are deliberately obscured.

Luce Irigaray (b. 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.

Very Good copy.

File under: Luce Irigaray Routledge / London Philosophy Feminism Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

The Castration of Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Feminism
by Carla J. Ferstman and Joseph C. Smith

1996, English
Softcover, 328 pages,‎ 15.24 x 22.86 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by New York University Press / New York

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First 1996 edition.

The intellectual movements of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism have redefined the ways in which we think about human experience. And yet, an integration of these movements has been elusive, if not impossible. In this landmark book, J.C. Smith and Carla J. Ferstman combine these disparate traditions to create a provocative, unified, and tightly woven perspective that transcends the misogyny implicit in much of Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

The dialectics of domination and submission are central to Smith and Ferstman's argument. Men and women, they insist, must avoid the temptation to fetishize equality and recognize the roles of domination and submission in the human psyche, or, in Nietzsche's terms, the Will to Power. They argue that the unification of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism leads us to a shocking conclusion--that women and men cannot move beyond the suffering which so haunts the human condition, unless heterosexual men surrender the power that is causing their misery and affirm life by joyfully accepting domination by women. And women, conversely, must reaffirm their power by rejecting Oedipal genderization and embracing a liberating matriarchal consciousness and a matriphallic sexuality.
A work of tremendous insight and extraordinary intellectual energy, The Castration of Oedipus will provoke strong reactions in all readers regardless of ideology.

J.C. Smith is Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, and the author of Psychoanalytic Roots of Patriarchy: The Neurotic Foundations of Social Order, also from NYU Press.

Carla J. Ferstman is Associate Counsel at the firm of Bolton and Muldoon.

Very Good copy, some wear, creasing.

File under: Carla J. Ferstman Joseph C. Smith New York University Press / New York Feminism Philosophy Psychoanalysis Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust
by Mieke Bal

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 300 pages, 15.24 x 22.86 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Stanford University Press / Palo Alto

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The clear-cut distinction between texts (literature) and images (art) has been challenged by a culture saturated with television and by an increased emphasis on interdisciplinary studies. From the viewpoint of our present culture, the author suggests, we can now see how some of the great writers and artists of the past overstepped the boundaries of the media in which they worked. The Mottled Screen studies as an example of this process a great literary work that cannot be confined to language alone, even though it consists exclusively of words: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

Maria Gertrudis "Mieke" Bal (b. 1946) is a Dutch cultural theorist, video artist, and Professor Emerita in Literary Theory at the University of Amsterdam.

Very Good—Fine copy in VG dj.

File under: Mieke Bal Stanford University Press / Palo Alto Feminism Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Art

Death & Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges
by Mieke Bal

1988, English
Hardcover, 324 pages, 15.24 x 22.86 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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Combining literary criticism and feminist analysis, Death and Dissymmetry radically reinterprets not only the Book of Judges but also the tradition of its reception and understanding in the West. In Mieke Bal's account, Judges documents the Israelite culture learning to articulate itself in a decisive period of transition.

Counter to standard readings of Judges, Bal's interpretation demonstrates that the book has a political and ideological coherence in which the treatment of women plays a pivotal role. Bal concentrates here not on the assassinations and battles that rage through Judges but on the violence in the domestic lives of individual characters, particularly sexual violence directed at women. Her skillful reading reveals that murder, in this text, relates to gender and reflects a social structure that is inherently contradictory. By foregrounding the stories of women and subjecting them to subtle narrative analysis, she is able to expose a set of preoccupations that are essential to the sense of these stories but are not articulated in them. Bal thereby develops a "countercoherence" in conflict with the apparent emphases of Judges―the politics, wars, and historiography that have been the constant focus of commentators on the book.

Death and Dissymmetry makes an important contribution to the development of a feminist method of interpreting ancient texts, with consequences for religious studies, ancient history, literary theory, and gender studies.

Maria Gertrudis "Mieke" Bal (b. 1946) is a Dutch cultural theorist, video artist, and Professor Emerita in Literary Theory at the University of Amsterdam.

Very Good copy w/o dust jacket, therefore Good.

File under: Mieke Bal University of Chicago Press / Chicago Feminism Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Crime / Violence Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WORMS 1

2019, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Published by Worms / London

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Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female/non-binary writer culture.

This inaugural issue, offers a fresh perspective on the accessibility of literature, writers and style. Here, you will find features with Chris Kraus and Ariana Reines about online writing, an exploration into Kathy Acker’s books and influence on contemporary culture, interviews with young upcoming authors and more.

File under: Chris Kraus Ariana Reines Worms / London LGBTQ+ Feminism Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Periodicals Art

WORMS 2

2020, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Published by Worms / London

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Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female/non-binary writer culture.

Worms 2 the ‘Revolting Women’ issue looks at women who are literally disgusting, figuratively revolting. With a focus on writers who operate on the fringes of literature, ‘revolt' in a Worms context is vast-ranging. This issue includes features with Maggie Nelson, Tilly Lawless, Sarah Schulman, Amelia Abraham, Juliana Huxtable, Juliet Jacques, Olivia Sudjic and more.

File under: Maggie Nelson Tilly Lawless Sarah Schulman Amelia Abraham Juliana Huxtable Juliet Jacques Olivia Sudjic Worms / London Art Periodicals Feminism LGBTQ+ Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay

WORMS 3

2021, English
Softcover, 92 pgs, 27 x 18 cm
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Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female/non-binary writer culture.

Worms 3, the ‘biomythography’ issue, looks at personal myth-making and the stories that shape us.

Featuring Michelle Tea, Moyra Davey, Lynne Tillman, Johanna Hedva, Jenny Hval, Ellen van Neervan, Caroline Calloway, Julie Enszerl and more.

File under: Michelle Tea Moyra Davey Lynne Tillman Johanna Hedva Jenny Hval Ellen van Neervan Caroline Calloway Julie Enszerl Worms / London LGBTQ+ Feminism Periodicals Theory / Essay Art Fiction / Poetry

WORMS 4

2021, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Published by Worms / London

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Worms 4 looks at psychogeography and the Situationists from a non-male perspective. Taking flâneuserie and the creative benefits of a good walk as its starting point, the issue features conversations with Eileen Myles, Alison Bechdel, Lauren Elkin, Tilly Lawless, Mckenzie Wark, Therese Estacion and Carmen Winant. 2021 was a fraught year for walking; the pandemic restricted our right to movement, while the murders of women walking in London led us to ask the question: how can the act of walking the streets spark political conversation?

File under: Eileen Myles Alison Bechdel Lauren Elkin Tilly Lawless Mckenzie Wark Therese Estacion Carmen Winant Worms / London Feminism Periodicals LGBTQ+ Fiction / Poetry Art Theory / Essay

WORMS 5

2022, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 27 x 18 cm
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Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female/non-binary writer culture.

"In this issue, we explore New Narrative alongside writers working today that incorporate some of it’s themes. Our cover star Saidiya Hartman talks with Rhea Dillon about the limits and processes of creating stories from the archive, while Camille Roy and Dodie Bellamy give us insight into New Narrative from their experiences involved in the movement. Savannah Knoop tells us about her life playing the character of J.T Leroy, while Calla Henkel delves into ideas of using other people’s narratives as our own. There’s lots of gleaning, lots of stealing and lots of hard truths coming from the human body. We have poetry and fiction and all of the usual bits, as well as an experimental cut up piece demonstrating the appropriation method that Kathy Acker (via William Burroughs) used in so much of her work. Many more worms to be found in these pages."

File under: Saidiya Hartman Rhea Dillon Camille Roy Dodie Bellamy Savannah Knoop Calla Henkel Kathy Acker William Burroughs Worms / London LGBTQ+ Feminism Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Periodicals Art SALE

WORMS 6

2023, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 27 x 18 cm
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"The themes of this issue are broad and sprawling. We look at humour, collage, and honesty - finding what’s relatable in the literature we love, and uncovering what it tells us about the present moment. Sheena Patel, our cover star, delves into the internet in all its darkness and hilarity, Elvia Wilk discusses the climate crisis and finding truth in fiction, and Chris Kraus and Ann Rower chat about everything from their influences to what a ‘career’ means as a writer. From Cosey Fanni Tutti to Lola Olufemi to Isabel Waidner, there are many more Worms to be found in these pages."

Featuring: Sheena Patel, Nada Alic, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Elvia Wilk, Ann Rower, Chris Kraus, Ghislaine Leung, Yelena Moskovich, Lola Olufemi, Sam Moore, Isabel Waidner, Cecilia Pavón, Ear Worms X Late Works

Contributors: Haydée Touitou, Nicole Della Costa, Zara Joan Miller, Erin Taylor, Jess Cole, Arcadia Molinas, Phoenix Losavio, Hope Roalfe, Hannah Pezzack, Chris Carter, Clem Macleod, Caitlin Mcloughlin, Isabel Maccarthy, Samantha Rosenwald, Elvira Garcia, Celestine Cooney, Bug Shepherd-Barron, Mary Watt, Delia Rainey

Founder & Editor In Chief: Clem Macleod; Managing Editor: Caitlin Mcloughlin; Art Direction And Design: Caitlin Mcloughlin; Features Editors: Pierce Eldridge, Arcadia Molinas; Contributing Editor: Violet Conroy

File under: Sheena Patel Nada Alic Cosey Fanni Tutti Elvia Wilk Ann Rower Chris Kraus Ghislaine Leung Yelena Moskovich Lola Olufemi Sam Moore Isabel Waidner Cecilia Pavón Haydée Touitou Nicole Della Costa Zara Joan Miller Erin Taylor Jess Cole Arcadia Molinas Phoenix Losavio Hope Roalfe Hannah Pezzack Chris Carter Clem Macleod Caitlin Mcloughlin Isabel Maccarthy Samantha Rosenwald Elvira Garcia Celestine Cooney Bug Shepherd-Barron Mary Watt Delia Rainey Worms / London LGBTQ+ Feminism Theory / Essay Art Fiction / Poetry Periodicals

FUGITIVE FEMINISM

2023, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 11.2 x 17.8 cm
Published by Silver Press / London

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This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. Sociologist Akwugo Emejulu argues that it is only through embracing the status of the ‘fugitive’ that Black women can determine their own liberation. This title is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action.

Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement?

File under: Akwugo Emejulu Silver Press / London Feminism Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics

Heads Together. Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate 1965–1973
Edited by David Jacob Kramer

2023, English
Softcover, 566 pages, 25 x 19 cm
Published by Edition Patrick Frey / Zürich

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The youth uprising, now simply called “The Sixties,” was fed by one of the greatest booms in publishing history. The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS) began as a loose confederation of five papers in 1966, and within a few years swelled to over 500 across the world, reaching millions of readers. They “spread like weed,” said the UPS director, weed-dealer, and eventual founder of High Times, Tom Forcade. The metaphor was apt: the UPS spurred the legalization movement, and weed became its totem.

Weed was so pervasive it became a helpful means for government agencies to crack down on the UPS. Weed came to emblematize activist groups, and added a touch of flair to the mastheads of UPS titles. Weed permeated UPS pages, with gaps in text crammed with weed-inspired “spot illustratios”.

Heads Together collects these drawings, shining a light on lesser-known names in the stoner-art canon, and many who weren’t names at all, as no signature was attached. It also compiles guides for growing weed from the period that were treated like contraband by the CIA. Activist-oriented, psychedelic rolling papers are showcased too.

As pot now fast-tracks toward legalization in the U.S. and beyond, its once incendiary status is brought into odd relief. Pot’s profiteers of the corporate market today do not reflect those who fought for legalization, or the Black and Latino populations strategically criminalized for pot well before hippies were targeted, and long after.

The art in this book speaks to a time when pot was smoked with optimism, as something potentially good for society and people, capable of activating profound transformation in the face of corrupt and powerful forces.

With Oral Histories by: Ishmael Reed, John Sinclair, Marjorie Heins, Mariann Wizard-Vasquez, Abe Peck

File under: Rembert Browne Melania Gazzotti David Jacob Kramer Ishmael Reed John Sinclair Marjorie Heins Mariann Wizard-Vasquez Abe Peck Edition Patrick Frey / Zürich Drugs / Psychedelia Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Graphic Design / Typography Sociology / Politics Counterculture Whole Earth / Crafts Feminism Periodicals Protest / Revolt

Abolish the Family : A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
by Sophie Anne Lewis

2022, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 12.9 x 19.8 cm
Published by Verso / London

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What if we could do better than the family?

We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family.

Even in so-called happy families, the unpaid, unacknowledged work that it takes to raise children and care for each other is endless and exhausting. It could be otherwise: in this urgent, incisive polemic, leading feminist critic Sophie Lewis makes the case for family abolition.

Abolish the Family traces the history of family abolitionist demands, beginning with nineteenth century utopian socialist and sex radical Charles Fourier, the Communist Manifesto and early-twentieth century Russian family abolitionist Alexandra Kollontai. Turning her attention to the 1960s, Lewis reminds us of the anti-family politics of radical feminists like Shulamith Firestone and the gay liberationists, a tradition she traces to the queer marxists bringing family abolition to the twenty-first century. This exhilarating essay looks at historic rightwing panic about Black families and the violent imposition of the family on indigenous communities, and insists: only by thinking beyond the family can we begin to imagine what might come after.

File under: Sophie Anne Lewis Verso / London Theory / Essay Feminism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism

SALE2 No.37
MASOCHISM ISSUE

1989, Japanese
Softcover, 176 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

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Issue No.37 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.37, the Masochism issue features erotic writings and artwork throughout by Loic Dubigeon, Guido Crepax, David Bailey, Man Ray, Lucas Samaras, Annie Sprinkle's Bosom Ballet, Hans Bellmer, Paul Outerbridge, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Shinichi Kusamori on the paintings of Seiu Ito "the father of modern kinbaku", Yamaguchi Tsubaki, E. J. Bellocq, René Girard, Noriyuki Eda on Saint Sebastian, Edogawa Ranpo, Serge Nazarieff, Rieko Matsuura, Tetsuo Amano, Freud, Nietzsche, de Sade, interspersed with lots of mysterious vintage erotic imagery, bondage illustration, and catalogue/advertisments/clippings of Richard Cerf, Araki, Eric Stanton, Irving Klaw, Jim, John Willie, Bizarre Comix, and much more...

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

Very Good copy, tanning with age.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Loic Dubigeon Guido Crepax David Bailey Man Ray Lucas Samaras Annie Sprinkle Seiu Ito Hans Bellmer Paul Outerbridge Richard Cerf Eric Stanton Irving Klaw Jim John Willie E. J. Bellocq Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Shinichi Kusamori Friedrich Nietzsche The Marquis de Sade Sigmund Freud René Girard Yamaguchi Tsubaki Noriyuki Eda Edogawa Ranpo Serge Nazarieff Rieko Matsuura Tetsuo Amano Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Theory / Essay Feminism Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture