The Man in Black / Drone Harness Matthew Barney, Jonathan Bepler New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2000 This provocative multiple by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler is a fund-raising edition for Printed Matter. The 1970's-style twelve-inch vinyl picture-disc in a gatefold album cover features images from Barney's Cremaster 2. The record has two tracks, both audio remixes by Bepler from the soundtrack he composed for the movie. Side A is "The Man in Black" featuring Dave Lombardo (the drummer from the heavy metal band Slayer) and 200,000 honey bees. Side B is a dark and moody track entitled "Drone Harness." The edition is an amazing amalgam of sonic and visual vitality: a major contribution to Barney's ever-growing oeuvre. Each record is signed and numbered by both artists. Category: Printed Matter Edition $275.00

A Joyful Confusion Victor Boullet London, England: Lauren Monchar. 2003 A Joyful Confusion presents eight unrelated series of photographs from Norwegian photographer Victor Boullet gathered together around an essay, "In Absurdum" by Robert Meyer. The essay touches on the sensibility underlying Boullet's imagery, which covers everything from policemen on their knees in "Shadow Seeker" to horses on their backs in "Oblivon." Intriguing on their own, it is the sequencing of these series that packs the real punch, the absurdity that creates the logic. Category: Book $25.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Punk Picasso Larry Clark New York, NY: AKA Editions. 2003 The title of Larry Clark’s opus punk Picasso is lifted from a passage in David Denby's review of the artist's Bully that reads “…as the camera wanders-grazes among naked thighs and tattooed torsos, this punk Picasso combines the multiple desires of lover, artist and voyeur…” The book displays, in scrapbook format, a loose chronological overview of the celebrated artist’s provocative career. The material presented spans family snapshots (his American Indian great grandfather, his father playing golf, a portrait of his mother as a professional photographer with Rollei and flash in hand, Clark with his son’s soccer team); unpublished images from Tulsa and 42nd St.; photographs from the set of his first film Kids and his new film Ken Park; clippings from reviews of exhibitions and films; correspondence; transcribed stories; Roger Maris ephemera; portraits of skateboarders, River Phoenix (images appropriated from Teen Magazines), Clark’s lover Tiffany and their dog Snappy; Page Six headlines and reproductions of vinyl records that act as a silent soundtrack to the raucous visual narrative. punk Picasso gathers together scraps that chart the life of the artist and his creations, which in Clark’s case, are inseparably entwined. Category: Book $1,000.00

The Baader-Meinhof Affair Erin Cosgrove New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2003 In the first publication from Printed Matter's Publishing Program for Emerging Artists, Erin Cosgrove takes the romance novel for a ride through revolutionary terrain to produce a tempestuous tale of terrorism and true love. In the cloistered environment of an exclusive East Coast college, the young and the restless fall in love while romancing the ghosts of the Baader-Meinhof gang active in 1970s Germany. It’s a hilarious send up of the romance genre complete with earnest interjections from the author who supplies historical cliff notes and commentary for the confused. A page-turning tour de force of the dangerous passions and politics of the privileged. From Printed Matter's Emerging Artists Publication Series. Category: Book $14.95 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Carfire John Ayala and John Furgason New York, NY: Field Office Research. 2003 A handbook of twenty-nine burned cars, documented with color photographs, indexed with location, make/model, color and year (when identifiable), and situated on bird’s eye photo maps, Carfire is a deadpan pan across the gnarled and ransacked remains of New York City car fires. Comes with the Tom Sachs Seal of Approval for the Printed Matter 2003 Holiday exhibition and Catalogue. Category: Book $40.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

The Holy Bible : Old Testament David Hammons London, England: Hand / Eye Projects. 2002 This publication is an appropriation of Arturo Schwarz's The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp and has been rebound in leather to resemble a Bible, with gilt edging, gold tooling, a ribbon placeholder, and a slipcase. Category: Multiple $4,500.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Oscar Hanigsberg New York, NY: Allied Cultural Prosthetics. 2003 The debut publication of ninety-year-old artist and C.P.A., Oscar Hanigsburg features thirty-two pages of black and white drawings from eclectic sources ranging from dogs to supermodels to Nazis. Distinguished with the Tom Sachs 2003 Seal of Approval. Category: Book $15.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood / Les Misrahi Reverend Jen New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2003 Printed on pink papers, Reverend Jen's Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood is a travel guide for the poor, deviant and bored that takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the Lower East Side and treats them to the cheapest Budweiser, the greasiest pizza and the fanciest porcelain unicorn heads in the meighborhood. Filled with personal anecdotes of hellish roommates, loneliness and delusions of fame, the book is peppered with delightful illustrations and sultry photos, and is both educational and entertaining. From Printed Matter's Emerging Artists Publication Series. Flip the book over and you'll find a bonus - Les Misrahi, an epic musical puppet show that tells the story of Jen Valjean, an ex-convict who has just been freed after serving three years for stealing a glue stick from Kinkos. Jen Valjean is visited by a chorus of wise rats who tell her of an ancient oracle that predicts she will lead the Downtrodden and Tired in a revolution against greedy landlords and real estate developers. Filled with catchy songs like "Dogs are Nice" and "My Roommate is Frozen into a Block of Ice," this one is sure to inspire sing-alongs! Category: Book $14.95 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Edition 24 Sticker Pack Tom Sachs New York, NY: Tom Sachs. 2003 This sleek sticker pack was produced on the occasion of Sachs’ installation at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, and includes an array of insignias – numbers, flames, labels, and corporate logos – to adhere to the model racing cars that were raced on Sachs’ wildly unconventional racetrack in the Nutsy’s Cup. Choose from McDonalds, Bechtel, NASA, Hello Kitty and others for corporate sponsorship. Also suitable for framing! Category: Multiple $20.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Wrapping Paper Tom Sachs New York, NY: Tom Sachs. 2003 Adorned with Sachs’ drawing of his model of Le Corbusier’s Unité. Wrap your presents with this inspiring vision of the harmonization of the social and economic spheres in architectural space! Category: Multiple $6.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

From Muff To You Sophie Spar New York, NY: Muff Crew Productions. 2003 From Muff to Youis an excellent gift book that comes with a red lollipop to suck while you rifle through the collection of paper gems brought to you by department store buyer, Sophie Spar, and the Muffs-in-charge-of-fashion gang, Muff Crew Productions (Stella Fay Metzner and Ruby Sky Stiler). The integration of fashion, performance art, set design, variety show, and slumber party is so, shall-we-say, "seamless"in the work of this eight-year-old crew that you might hear Ruby and Stella’s voices laud (in unison of course): "So what?" Don’t forget to check out the website, www.muffcrewproductions.com for more information about this funny collective. A proud bearer of the Tom Sachs 2003 Seal of Approval. Category: Book $10.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

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