Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976 - 1979
  • artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 27 x 20.9 cm.
  • 270 pp.
  • edition size 75
  • signed and numbered
  • ISBN 9780978869786

Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976 - 1979

[Special Edition]

Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, Jim Shaw

Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976 - 1979

description

"This limited edition is comprised of the Destroy All Monsters Magazine publication signed by the collective's original members: Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Also included is an 8×10 silver print by Cary Loren and a small glycine baggie of dirt from God's Oasis–the commune Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw lived in from 1974 to 1976 and which served as the collective's musical practice space.

Destroy All Monsters Magazine was edited by Cary Loren and contained artwork, photographs, and flyers from bandmates Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Printed using any papers and techniques available to the band, the issues combine the cut-and-paste tactics of punk zines with a psychedelic affinity for color. Destroy All Monsters Magazine functions as a kind of manifesto, providing insight into the band through densely layered pages with movie imagery, kitsch, cartoons, delicate drawings, and counter-culture collages. While Destroy All Monsters has been the subject of recent exhibitions and partial reprints, this is the first time that all issues have been reprinted." -- publisher's statement.

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Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976 - 1979
$750.00
Condition:  Fine. Complete special edition copy with signed photograph and baggie of dirt. Numbered 6/75.
[Object # 24381]