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 in painted wood display stand.
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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 spike driven through the cover served to elevate the edition as a display stand.
According to the artist this was not intentional, but “a fortuitous perk.”
More remarkable was how Conquest managed to achieve the nearly identical three-legged bloodstain on all three covers.
