Author: Anneke

Finis (Collected Tailpieces)

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sold outTailpieces are decorative elements used in printing to mark the end of a text or chapter. In the elegant hand made edition Finis Sea Urchin compiles 30 tailpieces that were done in the 19th and 20th centuries by various artists, ranging from Thomas Bewick to Alfred Kubin and George Grosz. The tailpieces have been printed single…

Ira Cohen – From the Divan of Petra Vogt (first collated copy)

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American photographer, poet and publisher Ira Cohen was born to deaf parents in the Bronx in 1935. After having dropped out of Cornell University, having married and having had two children with his wife Arlene Bond, Cohen sailed to Tangier in 1961, where he stayed for four years. In those years Cohen published his seminal Gnaoua journal with contributions by Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Harold Norse a.o. Cohen returned to the US…
€ 450.00

Richard Byrne – Hotel Mayflower

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True story: Before finding fame as a writer, Beat Generation icon William Burroughs met a German Jewish woman named Ilse Herzfeld Klapper in Dubrovnik. A year later, in 1938, they married. Ilse Burroughs received a U.S. visa from this marriage, which allowed her to escape Nazi Germany. She arrived in New York in 1939, where she worked for exiled anti-fascist German writer Ernst Toller. During his exile, Toller had become a leading figure in the anti-fascist resistance. He gave speeches, wrote articles, raised money for the hungry in Spain and even wrote film scripts…
€ 20.00

Cary Loren – Eye Zone

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Cary Loren (1955) is an artist, musician, publisher and bookstore keeper from Oak Park, Michigan. Together with Niagara, Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, Loren was a founder member of proto-punk noise band Destroy All Monsters in the early 1970s. He also founded his psych-folk band Monster Island and teamed up with the Miller brothers in the short-lived band Xanadu in the late 1970s and with Barry Roth in Nightcrawlerz in the 1980s. As a visual artist Loren has been active as a photographer, filmmaker and collagist since the early 1970s. Together with his wife Colleen Kammer, he has run Book Beat, a fine independent bookstore in Oak Park…
€ 25.00

William Cody Maher – Confessions of a Makeup Artist

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Poet, author and performer William Cody Maher was born to a working class family in San Francisco in 1950. After having moved to New York in the early 1980s, Maher met film director Alexandre Rockwell and together they produced the films Lenz (1982) and Hero (1983), which were both screened at the Berlin film festival. In the mid-1980s Maher joined forces with photographer Susan Schwartzenberg in their photo installation My Name is Hunter’s Point, which explores Maher’s childhood in San Francisco and was shown in his native town, Heidelberg and Berlin. From 1987 to 1998 Maher made Berlin…
€ 17.50

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