CREATION BOOKS

(P/B) SAMURAI AND TIGER WARS
As the creation of Japanese woodblock prints grew in popularity in the late Edo period, tigers could be found in the designs of many important ukiyo-e artists, either alone or shown in conflict with legendary Japanese warriors and tiger-hunters such as Kato Kiyomasa, "conqueror" of Korea. Images of Kiyomasa and others hunting, fighting and killing tigers form perhaps the most common type of print involving man/beast death struggles. Other ukiyo-e designs focused on the mythological or "magic" aspect of tigers; in Japanese legend, tigers of...
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(P/B) DIARY OF A GENIUS
Diary of a Genius stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dali, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of Surrealism, the 20th century's most intensely subversive, disturbing and influential art movement. Dali's second volume of autobiography, Diary of a Genius covers his life from 1952 to 1963, during which years we learn of his amour fou for his wife Gala, and their relationship both at home in Cadaques and during bizarre world...
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(P/B) FRACTURED EYE
FRACTURED EYE is new large-format annual film journal, edited by well-known authors Stephen Barber and Jack Hunter, who between them have produced around 50 books on global cinema and cultural history. FRACTURED EYE does not concern itself with either "mainstream" or "cult" cinema, but rather takes its cue from Amos Vogel's seminal 1974 study Film As A Subversive Art. Subjects covered by FRACTURED EYE Volume One include illegal film pornography in the 1970s, execution film documents of WW2, film documents of extreme performance art, subver...
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(P/B) DECADENCE AND DISSOLUTION
Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) was one of the last great masters of ukiyo-e, the Japanese art of woodblock-printing which peaked in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. Inspired by the plays, actors and customs of kabuki theatre, Kunichika created a visually dazzling pictorial record of this long-lost, decadent underworld of old Edo. As well as creating "mirrors" of popular productions and stars, he also cast the most dynamic actors of his time in the roles of tattooed robbers, samurai, female bandits and other elements from society's fri...
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(P/B) ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

(P/B) ANARCHY AND ALCHEMY

(P/B) CRAWLING CHAOS
H. P. LOVECRAFF, one of the great obsessive writers of the 20th century, naturally chose the pulp genre of "weird horror" in which to exorcise his acute anatomical alienation and existential torment. Within the matrix of his grotesque yet complex mythology, Lovecraft was able to conjure a hideous universe lying just beyond our own; his relentless style and language forging a convoluted, midnight-purple literary form which ultimately achieves a veritable "pornography" of horror: the accumulation and repetition of his demonic visions climaxi...
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(P/B) THE ART OF DESTRUCTION - THE FILMS OF VIENNA ACTION GROUP

(P/B) THE SCREAMING BODY

(P/B) HELIOGABALUS

HIJIKATA - REVOLT OF THE BODY (P/B)

(P/B) THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

(P/B) JEAN GENET: BORN TO LOSE

(P/B) VICIOUS

(P/B) EROS IN HELL - SEX BLOOD AND MADNESS IN JAPANESE CINEMA

(P/B) SALOME - UNDER THE HILL

(P/B) THE ANTI-JUSTINE

(P/B) BEAUTY LABYRINTH OF RAZORS

(P/B) DEAD BRIDES

(P/B) FLESH UNLIMITED
In Guillaume Apollinaire's Les Onze Mille Verges, debauched aristocrat Mony Vibescu and a circle of fellow sybarites blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust, bloody cruelty and depravity across the streets of Europe. In Apollinaire's Les Memoires D'Un Jeune Don Juan, a young man reminisces his sexual awakening at the hands of his aunt, his sister and their friends as he is utterly corrupted in a season of carnal excess. Louis Aragon's Le Con D'lrene is the intense story of a man's torment when he becomes fixated upon the genitalia of an imagi...
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