A collection of 19 books and booklets avant garde photograph...

Hammer

£290

A collection of 19 books and booklets avant garde photography, art, poetry, literature etc, including Penelope Slinger: '50% The Visible Woman. A book of collage/poems', London, Narcis Publishing Ltd, 1971, 1st edition, 50 full page b/w illustrations from photographs of the author as muse in a photo collage, each overlaid with her poetry on printed transparent paper, printed statement at front "Of this edition fifty copies have been numbered and signed by the author", unnumbered and unsigned, original black cloth, spine silver lettered, silvered end papers/paste downs. Penny Slinger, sometimes Penelope Slinger, is a British-born American artist and author based in California. As an artist, she has worked in different mediums, including photography, film and sculpture. Her work has been described as being in the genres of surrealism and feminist surrealism. Her work explores the nature of the self, the feminine and the erotic. Her first book, when published, Rolling Stone said, '"This book will become as important on your bookshelf as Sgt. Pepper is on your record rack."; Michael Kustow; Jasia Reichardt (ed.): 'The Magazine Of The Institute Of Contemporary Arts August 1968 No. 5.', Institute Of Contemporary Arts, London, 1968, 1st edition, 40pp, content includes The Four-bug problem and its outcome; Relation between mathematics and the ordered patterns of Op art; The poem as a schema, etc, b/w illustrations, original pictorial wraps, front cover of an oil on canvas by Lowell Nesbitt depicting IBM 1440 Data Processing system, 1965, rear cover also by Lowell Nesbitt of an IBM 1440. Scarce; Iain Sinclair: 'The Kodak Mantra Diaries: October 1966 to June 1971', Albion Village Press, 1971, 1st edition, Illustrated account of Allen Ginsberg in London, tall narrow folio (41 x 15cm), original spiral bound pictorial printed wraps; plus others Man Ray, Iain Sinclair, Erskine Caldwell & Maragaret Bourke-White, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Picasso, 'Muy Fragil', proof of the special limited edition of 'Musrum' by Erick Thacker and Anthony Earnshaw, etc etc (19)