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SEMINA NO. 1: BRIDGET PENNEY
Index
From Book Works new Semina series, dedicated to publishing contemporary artists and writers willing to take risks with their prose, comes British author Bridget Penney’s spellbinding novella. Index spins a web of far-flung places and people in order to explore the themes of revolution, repression, seduction and death. Using uncredited “found” texts and deliberate forgeries to blur the line between what might have happened and what is merely imagined, Penney creates her own versions of characters like Marie Antoinette, the famous magician and forger Cagliostro, and the transvestite spy Chevalier d’Eon. Penney’s innovative prose transcends the conventional narrative closure readers have come to expect.
5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches / 128 pp
ISBN: 978-1-906012-03-8
Retail Price: $22.00
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Jim Shaw
Dreams
After years out of print, this re-issue of the 1995 Dreams once again reveals internationally renowned artist/writer Jim Shaw’s innermost fears, obsessions and sexual fantasies. This bizarre journal takes the reader into the imagination of the Los Angeles-based artist through painstaking pencil drawings that bring the nocturnal world of this inventive, anti-elitist artist to life. Shaw is known for his preoccupation with dream imagery, pop culture and odd-ball, even pornographic, subject matter; his works span drawings, sculpture, prints and photos. This massive, diary-like picture book is an in-depth look at one of the most important facets of this seminal artist’s work.
ISBN: 978-0-9646426-0-7
Retail Price: $30.00