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Le Gun 5 /anglais
Pub 2012 144 Thames & Hudson After adventures in mainland Europe and the lands of the rising sun. Le Gun No. 5 is set to grace lavatories. poodle-parlors. bars and bookshelves far and wide. Somewhere between art object and pulp fiction. Le Gun No. 5 is a collage of art by disparate individuals. a freewheeling visual poem punctuated with literary. profound and absurd quotes. always sailing on the side of the surreal and exposing the darker recesses of its warped contributors minds. a rich celeation of drawing and storytelling. Le Gun No. 5 has taken the great George Melly (trout-tickling-dada-loving jazz pirate. and past contributor to Le Gun) as muse for this issue. Works include the intense outsider art of Nick Blinko. artist. writer and frontman of anarcho punkDeathrock band Rudimentary Peni. Emma Rendel. the spearhead of...
144 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2012
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March 1, 2020
A strange surrealist document, built around the memory British surrealist and critic, George Melly, featuring a variety of intriguing illustrations and brief texts that seem to be diary entries (of a fictionalized George Melly, perhaps) written I think by Robert Rubbish.
The effect of the whole publication was startling. It was mystifying in the best possible way.
The effect of the whole publication was startling. It was mystifying in the best possible way.
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