Renegade
Henry Miller was a big influence back when I was banging on an Olivetti. The man spewed pure spirit and humanist life-lust. Tropic of Cancer was an autobiographical novel Miller […]
Monthly Archives: January 2012
No Fasting
“Midnight Mass” is the rare “Plate 1” in artist Norman Conquest’s seminal Church of the Trans-Fat placemat series. [Click on image and pray for larger view.] Conquest began his mixed […]
The Word from Our Sponsor
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“We Deliver. Sometimes.”
In 1987, as part of the international Mail Art movement, artist Norman Conquest rubber-stamped a dollar bill, affixed postage, addressed it to a friend, and dropped it in a mail […]
Black Plate Special
photo: Joy K. Aubrey “Naked Lunch” (NYC, ca. 1990). Book-object by Norman Conquest. Mixed media: sliced Olympia Press edition of Naked Lunch, glass eye and fork on black plate […]
Dutch Treat
Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra from her “Beach Portraits” series. See the feature in PDN. LINK
Conversation Pie(r)ce
3-De Sade (1979). Book-object by Norman Conquest. Mixed media: book, blood, and spike. One of three examples. [photo: bps] Having seen this work up close, I can report that the […]
Scout’s Honor
Rare relic (1990) commemorating the anti-censorship art collective, Beuyscouts of Amerika—a collaboration between artists Anna Banana and Norman Conquest. N.C. in SF circa 1987
Noir for the Course
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The Floating Pirate
Artist Norman Conquest plans to publish a pirated edition of Red Cats (a collection of Russian poetry) in the form of a hardcover hologram. “Beaming poems with automated page-flip is […]
