$140.00
Large Scale, Limited Edition (500 copies), Experimental, Noise, Power Electronics; Hardcover Book + 11" Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
180 Page Hardcover Book with 11" Record, featuring Kevin Drumm. What separates Dominick Fernows Prurient project from the rest of the contemporary underground cannon is its unyielding personal subject matter. From the inception of Prurient the concept has always utilized intimate details, photographs, letters and other ephemera culled from places where most artists would choose to obscure. Prurient draws these details into focus more than ever on Rose Pillar, a 180-page hardbound book of Fernows collage work and text supplied by his mother Jean Feraca from her previously published memoir I Hear Voices. Feraca tells the story of the death of Stephen, the brilliant but troubled older brother, an anthropologist who was adopted into a Sioux tribe. Feracas text is juxtaposed with Fernows collages of fallen empires, plant-life and industrial decline. The imagery presented is both stoic yet strangely profound and revealing as an analogy of death. Rose Pillar also contains an 11” vinyl LP containing material from Prurient that is some of the most profound and fully-realized work of his career. Prurient is not about an attack but rather a cry for help. Prurient takes the listener to the ends of human emotion as the range of sounds swell as the light of life fades. The climax of the album is the track “spins the worlds wheel again” which contains the most densely melodic frozen drone ever contained on a Prurient recording. What's evidenced in these recordings is a sense of loss and destruction that cant be replaced. The sound feels more like an erosion of steady decline, ebb and flow, storms, power controlled and power unleashed. This multimedia project pries deeply through the depths of mourning on both a personal and societal scale. In conversation Prurient has exclaimed Rose Pillar to be the end of an era in both function and material. This is Prurient taken to its furthest and most satisfyingly complete conclusion. Nothing will be the same after this release as this is the ultimate result of Prurient's process. Finality is a recurring theme with Rose Pillar and that says more than anything.
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HOMEMADE TATTOOS RULE; Paperback Book (2006) Rare!
$75.00
Rare, Home Made Tattoos, Art, Tattoos, DIY, Australia, Underground, Out Of Print; Paperback Book - Ex Used condition
Long out of print and a rare find, Home Made Tattoos Rule is a collection of photographs of home made tattoos. The images cover tattooed people, tattooists' tools and tattooing in action. The collection of tattoos published in this book brings together various aesthetics, styles and techniques of home made tattoos ranging for the cute and naïve to the bold and the ugly. Stepping out of the standard patterns of the tattoo shop and with no bookings, no waiting and no payment required, it's easy to see the appeal of DIY tattooing.
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THE MAD MAX MOVIES: Australian Screen Classics; Paperback Book (2003)
$35.00
Mad Max, Cult, Film, Australian, Information, Essay, Review; Paperback Book (90 pages) VG Used condition (small damage to rear cover)
Adrian Martin believes that Mad Max is an exploitation movie, Mad Max 2 is an attempt at classicism, and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is unquestionably George Miller’s one and only art film. This lively new appreciation of the Mad Max trilogy offers readers intelligent and proactive writing on three of Australia's most prized films.
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TOM OF FINLAND: The Complete Kake Comics; Hardcover Book (2014)
$45.00
Art, Comic, Erotic Art, Gay Interest, Controvercial, Kink, Fetish; Hardcover Book (704 pages) - New
In 1965, Tom of Finland began flirting with the idea of an ongoing character for his panel stories, the ultimate Tom's Man. He tried out a blond named Vicky-a common male name in Finland-followed by a Tarzan-inspired Jack. Then in 1968 Tom settled on Kake, a dark-haired, mustached leatherman who often wore a tight white T-shirt bearing the motto "Fucker." Kake lived up to this moniker, a sort of post-Stonewall, hyper-masculine Johnny Appleseed traveling the world on his motorcycle to spread the seeds of liberated, mutually satisfying, ecstatically explicit gay sex. Tom lived out many of his most personal fantasies through Kake, and Kake's international fans made him the template for what came to be known as the gay clone look of the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1986, Tom published 26 episodes of Kake adventures, most as 20-page booklets.
Tom of Finland - The Complete Kake Comics collects all of these stories in one volume. Return with Kake to the days when men were men, sex was carefree, and everyone wore a big thick mustache.
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SUBWAY ART: Paperback Book (2015)
$40.00
Subway Art, Graffiti, Graff, Street Art, Illegal Art; Large Scale Paperback Book (128 pages) - New
In 1984, the groundbreaking Subway Art brought graffiti to the world. 30 years on, the bible of the street-art movement is back and better than ever.
• With over 70 fresh photographs not included in the original edition.
• In new introductions Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant recall how they gained entry to the New York City graffiti community in the 1970s and 1980s.
• New afterwords continue the story from the decline of the subway graffiti scene in the late 1980s to its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement.
• The authors bring us up to date on how the lives of the original subway artists have unfolded, and mourn the loss of several writers to the darker forces of the street.
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STREET FONTS: Graffiti Alphabets from Around the World; Paperback Book (2018)
$45.00
Graffiti, Street Art, Graff, Instructional, Art, Black Book; Paperback Book - New
Classic graffiti lettering and experimental typographical forms lie at the heart of street culture and have long inspired designers in many different fields. But graffiti artists, who tend to paint the same letters of their tag again and again, rarely design complete alphabets. Claudia Walde has spent over two years collecting alphabets by 154 artists from 30 countries with a view to showing the many different styles and approaches to lettering within the graffiti and street art cultures. All of the artists have roots in graffiti. Some are world renowned such as 123 Klan (Canada), Faith47 (South Africa) and Hera (Germany); others are lesser known or only now starting to emerge. Each artist received the same brief: to design all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet within the limits of a single page of the book. How they approached this task and selected the media with which to express their ideas was entirely up to them. The results are a fascinating insight into the creative process.
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SPRAY ON WALLS: Urban Adventure of Graffiti Art; Hardcover Book (2021)
$65.00
Graff, Graffiti, Art, Street Art, Stencil, Paste-up, Guerrilla; Hardcover Book - New
This book starts with the history and culture of subway graffiti, the most well-known style of graffiti. Parallel with the subway graffiti, stencil graffiti, one of the most authentic form of street art will be introduced. The third chapter will pay attention to the wheatpaste graffiti which is a variant of commercial advertisement. After introducing three most important forms of graffiti, the creation process and techniques will be presented to show the readers how the actual scene of creation is for graffiti artists. Last but not least, the fifth chapter showcases a large number of graffiti works of various styles.
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THE ROBERT CRUMB SKETCHBOOK VOLUME 6: Hardcover Book (2021)
$75.00
Robert Crumb, Comic, Art, Erotic, Adults Only, Offensive, Underground Art; Hardcover Book - New
"Silly Fool Comics" fills the final page in this final volume, with a devilish creature telling the anguished Crumb, "YOU Will Soon Be DEAD!" He was a mere 67, but in his self-absorbed Crumbish way was obsessing about death, when not making intimate and loving portraits of his wife Aline and all the other women who'd tormented his libido since boyhood. Most impressive in this book are his historic tableau, some single page, others multi-page strips, including Piers the Ploughman of 14th century England, My Secret Life by "Walter," Rough Women of the Dark Ages and The Apache Dance, from a 1930s Parisian postcard. His Rapidographed cross hatching is superb as ever and we are treated to long screeds displaying his undimmed brilliance at analyzing the human condition, in a morbid but nonetheless amusing way. One could say there are no surprises in content, as Crumb has produced a consistent body of work over the last 40, if not 50, years, yet each page is also jarringly different from the one before, due to his personal juxtaposition of images. So much is packed in you can spend an hour and find you're only a quarter of the way through, with Crumb bemoaning his mortality, while continuing to prosper, every few pages. A fine stand-alone volume, and must-have completion for the sketchbook set.
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MURAL XXL; Hardcover Book (2015)
$55.00Graffiti, Street Art, Mural, Large Scale, Graff; Hardcover Book (2015) - New
In its early days, illegal graffiti and street art were of necessity modest in scale, hastily created in hours or even minutes, and destroyed just as quickly by authorities, vandals or the elements. Now, however, graffiti writers and street artists are able to take their work to an entirely new level, creating carefully planned, permanent works that cover entire buildings and add a new visual dimension to the world's cities. Claudia Walde, better known as the record-breaking street muralist MadC, has selected more than 200 of the best XXL works and profiled nearly 30 artists who pioneered this trend. Working in dangerous conditions, often hundreds of metres above the ground, yet always keenly aware of the view from street level, these new street muralists are as fearless and technically skilled as they are creatively brilliant. This is a thrilling, super-sized, international celebration of one of the most visible new art movements on the streets of our cities.
BARRY MCGEE; Hardcover Book (2018)
$50.00
Street Art, Graphic Art, Graffiti, Art, Contemporary Art; Hardcover Book 98 pages - New
Barry McGee is an artist who takes uncertainty and unpredictability as his guiding principles. Every exhibition is different. His installations have featured everything from robotic graffiti writers to entire shipping containers and automobiles. Published to accompany an exhibition at Cheim & Read, New York, this artist's book features new paintings, sculptures, photographs and images of site-specific installations. McGee's work defies easy categorization and explanation but it's possible to read into this latest body current events in the world at large.
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Bedlam: London and its Mad; Paperback Book (2008)
$15.00
Insane, Social Commentary, Historic, Mental, London; Paperback Book - Ex Used condition
'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735 Rake's Progress series, depicts the anti-hero in Bedlam, the latest addition to a freak show providing entertainment for Londoners between trips to the Tower Zoo, puppet shows and public executions. That this is still the most powerful image of Bedlam, over two centuries later, says much about our attitude to mental illness, although the Bedlam of the popular imagination is long gone. The hospital was relocated to the suburbs of Kent in 1930, and Sydney Smirke's impressive Victorian building in Southwark took on a new role as the Imperial War Museum. Following the historical narrative structure of her acclaimed Necropolis, BEDLAMwill examine the capital's treatment of the insane over the centuries, from the founding of Bethlehem Hospital in 1247 through the heyday of the great Victorian asylums to the more enlightened attitudes that prevail today.
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TEENAGE WASTELAND: Suburbia’s dead end kids; Paperback Book
$25.00
Surburbia, Punk, Heavy Metal, Satanism, Social Issue, Youth Culture; Paperback Book - Good Used condition (Ex Library book, has library stickers, external and internal)
Teenage Wasteland provides memorable portraits of "rock and roll kids" and shrewd analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism. A powerful indictment of the often manipulative media coverage of youth crises and so-called alternative programs designed to help "troubled" teens, Teenage Wasteland draws new conclusions and presents solid reasons to admire the resilience of suburbia's dead end kids. "The best book on contemporary youth culture."―Rolling Stone
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