Idols; Gilles Larrain

DECENTRALISATION 3 Jacques Villeglé (Frac Corse); Paperback French exhibition book from Jacques Villeglé's 2001 exhibition at Frac Corse (Corsica), Used (Some cover damage) It has been fifty years now that Jacques Villeglé has chosen his gesture, his expression: fifty years of exploration in a practice that is still alive and which nonetheless belongs to the history of 20th century art, through the group New Realists coordinated by Pierre Restany in 1960, alongside the Arman, the Hain, the Tinguely: a gesture of a collector who chooses and collects on the walls of cities the accumulated and lacerated posters, fragments of images and signs of time. This appropriation of fragments of reality touches both abstract painting and Lettrist poetry; she holds up a mirror to the way in which society constructs its own representation and how the "anonymous lacerator" comes to mark its reaction on the skin of the walls to the world around it. The artist is simply the one who takes these fragments of reality by framing significant details and transforming these rough moments into a painting, thus testifying to contemporary history. Today of international reputation and represented in the largest European and American museums, Jacques Villeglé pays the same attention to the world around him, by taking an interest in and grouping by series his samples of political, advertising posters or even those of electronic music concerts. Villeglé is always a tireless surveyor sensitive to all the significant encounters produced by the uprooting gesture. He is tirelessly enthusiastic to go in search of these riches of everyday culture: also, when he saw photographs of the display columns taken in Bastia by Anne Deleporte, an artist invited by the FRAC for another project, he was ready to come and do his work of sampling ("uncrusting" he says) and preparing a painting in Corsica, sure to find in this memory through the skin of the walls, striking signs of Corsican reality. (French Language Only 48 pages, 100's of colour photos)

THE GREAT SHARK HUNT Hunter S Thompson (1979); Paperback 635 page collection of Thompson's essays from 1956 to the end of the 1970s Paperback, Used The book is broken into four parts, not strictly chronological, starting with a collection of his more famous Gonzo-style articles, including those about the Kentucky Derby, his Chicano lawyer friend Oscar Zeta Acosta, and the 1973 Super Bowl; then a section on politics, including excerpts from his "Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail 72" and a group of articles from 1973 and 1974 documenting the last months of Nixon's presidency; a selection of Thompson's earliest writing including for National Observer and the U.S. Air Force; ending up with later cultural commentary and other items. Sections from the author's two original Fear and Loathing serials (...in Las Vegas and ...on the Campaign trail 72) are excerpted. Thompson worked for several different publications throughout his career, and The Great Shark Hunt covers articles from the National Observer, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Playboy, and others.