… the world of BLINK.
Author: Black Scat Books
Publishers of Sublime Art & Literature Since 2012
Eyes Wide Open
Farewell Debut‘s astonishing new collection of images were all captured with an iPhone. She opens our eyes to strange, subterranean visions that vanish in a blink, but return to haunt.
PRAISE FOR BLINK
“A digital Rorschach exploration.” –Diana Scheunemann
“A real visual feast! If this is a farewell to Debut’s debut, I can’t wait to see what the next meal will be.” –Yuriy Tarnawsky, author of The Placebo Effect Trilogy
“The kaleidoscopic eccentricity in Farewell’s work seduces you into a visionary world of colour and form.” –Samantha Memi (UK)
“Her images are like memories snapping fire.” –Derek Pell
Surreal, eerie, absurd, BLINK is one artist’s response to a world drowning in snapshots.
Is it art? Anti-art? Anti-iPhone? Or a clarion call to rebel?
From the artist’s introduction:
…fine art is dead and we’re destined to listen to thin pop music while wearing The Bright Capri and The Crossing Waters Sandal in Tangerine. Or not.
Over 100 pages of unforgettable color photographs in a limited edition of 100 copies, perfect-bound, in our Absurdist Texts & Documents series.
Don’t blink or you’ll miss it.
CLICK HERE to order a copy.
Some Are Reading . . . (part 2)
Nothing like a good book on a summer’s day.
Even better, reading a sublime paperback from Black Scat Books.
Better still, enjoying How I Became an Idiot by Francisque Sarcey (actually written by one Alphonse Allais), translated from the French by the venerable Doug Skinner. Mr. Skinner is seen here exhibiting his fine taste in summer reading matter while relaxing in the Hamptons. (NOTE: This photo was not taken in the Hamptons, but it could have been had Mr. Skinner gone there.)
How I Became an Idiot is filled with biting wit and scatological humor. It’s the perfect beach book, as long as it’s read upside down so the title cannot be detected. After all, no one wants to be mistaken for an idiot.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: THIS TITLE IS OUT OF PRINT
Captain Cap Rides Again!
Hang on to your caps, folks, the Captain is back in a capsized edition designed to tease—Volume III in our hilarious 4-volume series.
Captain Cap: The Antifilter & Other Inventions by Alphonse Allais, translated and illustrated by Doug Skinner. This literary landmark is the first publication in English featuring Allais’s hilarious, booze-cruising captain of the high seas—the unthinkably unsinkable Captain Cap.
Over 100, profusely illustrated pages, The Antifilter is packed with strange, pataphysical inventions, quirky cons, cocktails, wordplay and absurd pranks. In short, it’s a feast for landlubbers and lover’s of French lit & humor.
DISCOVER:
- a new way to give microbes what they deserve
- a successful ascension, without a craft
- a machine that travels 234 kilometers an hour
- the secret of a truly modern house
- the art of shoeing horses on the Australian pampas
- a strange theory on the formation of coal
and much, much more!
110 pages, perfect-bound. Limited to 125 copies. $21.50
CLICK HERE and climb aboard.
ripped from the pages of the OED . . .
Classic Porn Reborn
Black Scat Books is delighted to bring this ancient classic back into print in a perfect-bound edition designed for the modern connoisseur. Facetiae is a collection of humorous and indecent tales by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459), first published in 1470. It features such stories as “Of a Fool, Who Thought His Wife Had Two Openings” and “Visio Francisci Philelphi,” the earliest recorded version of Carvel’s ring. This limited edition includes a hand-lettered cover by artist Jana Vukovic.
Over a hundred pages of lascivious mirth!
If you haven’t been collecting our Black Scat Classic Interim Editions, now is a good time to start.
Some Things Wicked This Way Come . . .
Happy May Day!
What the hell… we like to celebrate early.
And you can too with a heaping side of BOAR.
Top Ten Forthcoming Titles
The Facetiae Erotica of Poggio
by Poggio Bracciolini. With hand-lettered cover & drawing by Jana Vukovic
Captain Cap (Vol. III): The Antifilter & Other Inventions
by Alphonse Allais. Translated from the French by Doug Skinner
Oulipo Pornobongo 2: Anthology of Erotic Wordplay
edited by Norman Conquest
Blink: Visual Antiphonies
by Farewell Debut
Hotel Ortolan
by Tom Whalen. With photographs by Michel Varisco
Embryo World & Others Stripped Bare
by Opal Louis Nations
Moo Nudes
by Monika Mori
Contemporary Art for Rich Kids
by Peppo Bianchessi
Captain Cap: His Adventures, His Ideas, His Drinks
by Alphonse Allais. Translated from the French by Doug Skinner
(Illustrated trade paper edition)
Tintin Meets The Dragon Queen in The Return of the Maya to Manhattan
a novel by Alain Arias-Misson
Happy Summer Reading!
Please consider these fine titles:
CAPTAIN CAP (VOL. II) Alphonse Allais. Translated by Doug Skinner
THE MAN WHO WALKED ON AIR & OTHER TALES OF INNOCENCE Alain Arias-Misson
WASTED ENERGIES, BAFFLED THOUGHTS G. Mackenzie Bacon
A CAMI SAMPLER. Pierre Henri Cami. Translated by John Crombie
THE NEGLECTED WORKS OF NORMAN CONQUEST
THE TWO LOVES OF NUNNY Farewell Debut
THE OTHER SIDE: THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND 100 CLASSIC PAINTINGS
C.S. Hibbard
KIRGHIZ STEPPES: ACCUMULATED VERBO-VISUALS M. Kasper
THE WORKS & LIFE OF KOSTY RICHARDS: AN AMERICAN CAREER Richard Kostelanetz
IT’S FUN TO BE RICH IN AMERICA Michael Leigh & Norman Conquest
THE COMPLETE UNABRIDGED LEXICON Opal Louis Nations
NICKLE NOIR: THE ART OF JOHN NICKLE John Nickle
DOKTOR BEY’S SUICIDE GUIDEBOOK Derek Pell
HOW I BECAME AN IDIOT Francisque Sarcey (Alphonse Allais)
HOT HEART OF BOAR & OTHER TASTES Terry Southern
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Happy Summer!
