SOLAR BOOKS

(P/B) SADE: SEX AND DEATH
The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), best known for his violent, erotic novels, such as 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, was also one of the key inspirational figures identified by Andre Breton in his Surrealist Manifestos. De Sade's importance to the Surrealists and their close affiliates is reflected in the sheer volume of art and writing dedicated to, or inspired by, his life, philosophy, and writings. Sade documents this body of Surrealist work, including many key texts and bizarre and erotic images never before assembled in one volume. Inc...
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(P/B) THE ART OF INSANITY
In 1922 Hans Prinzhorn published his first and most influential book, Bildnerei der Geisteskranken ("Artistry Of The Mentally Ill"), a study of "schizophrenic art" richly illustrated with examples of works created by the inmates of lunatic asylums. Mainly concerned with the borderline between psychiatry and art, illness and self-expression, the book sought to both assess these images as creative work, and to use them as a way of studying psychosis. After Max Ernst brought a copy to Paris, it became a favoured work for the Surrealists, who ...
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(P/B) GENTEEL PERVERSION
Gilbert and George are perhaps the world's most enduring and controversial artist duo, and the first to transform themselves into a permanent, living work of art. Incorporating their lives, fears, desires, and beliefs into their oeuvre, Gilbert and George - with their almost alarming formality and raucous use of color - have been alternately celebrated as frank observers of the human condition and accused of reactionary posturing, obscenity, and profanity. But while much has been written on their photo-pieces and their renowned performance...
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(P/B) SADISM AND MASOCHISM
First published in English in 1929, Sadism and Masochism remains one of the most important books of sexology, a masterwork of psychoanalysis documenting and defining the spectrum of fetishes and psychosexual disorders. The culmination of research by Wilhelm Stekel, a psychologist who was an early follower of Freud, Sadism and Masochism describes some of the most disturbing, violent, and extreme instances of sexual perversion ever recorded. The sixty-four case histories reprinted here include such paraphilias as vampirism; cannibalism; necr...
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(P/B) ANTONIN ARTAUD : TERMINAL CURSES : THE NOTEBOOKS 1945-48