photo: Monika Mori
The LIT NOIR issue of BLACK SCAT REVIEW is available here.
Category: art
Let the long, hot summer begin . . .
with this cool new issue of BLACK SCAT REVIEW.
ON SALE NOW!
CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE PRINT OR DIGITAL EDITION
“A Surrealist museum of femmes fatale!”
Not since André Breton’s Nadja has there been anything like this. Hallucinatory portraits, collaged, painted, scrawled by a visual poet of Chicago’s mean streets. Ephemeral, fresco’d goddesses drift out of reach, taunt us, haunt us, inspire desire and erotic obsessions. Indifferent brides, savage debutantes, sirens and succubi, erotic dream queens and mythical girls next door.
The artist’s one-of-kind hand-bound original.
Originally an extraordinary one-of-a-kind, hand-bound artist’s book, WOMEN THAT DON’T EXIST has been lovingly reproduced in sublime full color. 63 pages, perfect-bound in a limited collector’s edition of 100 copies. $16.00 / BLACK SCAT CLASSIC INTERIM EDITION #09
Back cover.
Frontis and title page
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Frank Pulaski’s graffiti’d visions seduce the eye and fire the imagination.
Have you had your MUD BATH today?
“Allan Bealy is a collagist with a profound knowledge of the form’s history, as well as art history—period. With a vision that’s wide-ranging but cohesive, he’s one of those artists who can serve up a banquet of images in seemingly disparate styles, yet you’ll always know who cooked them up. Dig in to this delectable feast for the eyes, but take the time to savor each course.”
—Peter Cherches, author of Lift Your Right Arm
“At last, an album of Bealy’s edgy, layered, elegant collages. Incisive in both senses.”—Michael Kasper
SOLD OUT
“Here’s mud in your eye!”
We’re pleased to announce that—based on this morning’s phenomenal sales—Allan Bealy‘s MUD BATH has become our #1 best seller. We advise fans of cutting edge collage to act quickly before this limited edition becomes an outrageously priced collector’s item. SOLD OUT
Happy May Day to all!
The Cutting (and pasting) Edge
“At last, an album of Bealy’s edgy, layered, elegant collages. Incisive in both senses.”—Michael Kasper
Allan Bealy has been making masterful, handmade collages for years. Working within art’s most accessible form, Bealy manages to consistently surprise the viewer. From a secret stash of source material, he has carved out a style all his own. His exquisite sense of design and powerful imagination combine to produce images you won’t soon forget. Now Black Scat Books brings you this remarkable artist’s first collection in a full color, 68-page perfect-bound collector’s chapbook.
“Allan Bealy is a collagist with a profound knowledge of the form’s history, as well as art history—period. With a vision that’s wide-ranging but cohesive, he’s one of those artists who can serve up a banquet of images in seemingly disparate styles, yet you’ll always know who cooked them up. Dig in to this delectable feast for the eyes, but take the time to savor each course.”
—Peter Cherches, author of Lift Your Right Arm
Limited to 100 copies, this Black Scat Classic Interim Edition is the next best thing to a coffee table mud bath.
SOLD OUT
Back in Print! (sort of)
We’re pleased to announce that BLACK SCAT REVIEW – No. 1 (2012) is available in facsimile digital edition. If you missed it, now’s your chance to complete your collection of back issues.
The notorious “Cruci-Fiction” issue features works by Alphonse Allais, Florence Bocherel, Pierre Henri Cami, Pedro Carolino, Norman Conquest, John Crombie, S.N. Jacobson, Crad Kilodney, Michael Leigh, Samantha Memi, Doug Skinner, Yuriy Tarnawsky, and Tom Whalen.
PLUS, Elizabeth Archer’s interview with Samantha Memi, the UK’s flash fiction goddess and pastry chef.
You can order a print edition for the outrageous price of $1,000, or nab the spiffy digital edition for only $5.00.
Now that’s a steal!
Coming Attractions
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REAR WINDOWS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT FIFTY FILM NOIR CLASSICS
ON SALE NOW!
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MUD BATH by Allan Bealy
ON SALE NOW!
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THE UNKNOWN ADJECTIVE by Doug Skinner
Coming June 11th
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SELECTED PLAYS OF ALPHONSE ALLAIS
Coming July 9th
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OULIPO PORNOBONGO 3: ANTHOLOGY OF EROTIC WORDPLAY
Coming July 30th
BLACK SCAT REVIEW #6 is Available!
BLACK SCAT REVIEW features innovative fiction, art, interviews, and works in translation.
In this issue: Nin Andrews, Emily June Brink, Eckhard Gerdes, Michelle Gray, Judson Hamilton, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Adam Miller, Ivan de Monbrison, Jules Moy, Opal Louis Nations, Doug Skinner, Brett Stout, Joanna C. Valente, and Sayuri Yamada. PLUS an extensive interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky on the release of The Placebo Effect Trilogy.
Full color book format — 78 pages — Perfect-bound ($18.00).
Also available in a digital edition ($5.00).
In the wings, some special things (fifth edition)…
The Derangement of Jules Torquemal
by Robert Wexelblatt
“The best thing would be for me to go away. Everyone says so: Geneviève, Emmanuelle, Dr. Strouville; no doubt the milkman, the President of the Republic, and the Pope in Rome agree. The Minister might allow me a couple of weeks, but he’s been looking at me strangely of late, furtively but with intensity, as if trying to peer inside my skull and make a proper survey of the bleak thoughts to be found there…”
A daunting philosophical puzzle.
Black Scat Classic Interim Edition – No. 07
Publication: April 9
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Mud Bath
by Allan Bealy
“At last, an album of Bealy’s edgy, layered, elegant collages. Incisive, in both senses.”
– Michael Kasper
“Allan Bealy is a collagist with a profound knowledge of the form’s history, as well as art history—period. With a vision that’s wide-ranging but cohesive, he’s one of those artists who can serve up a banquet of images in seemingly disparate styles, yet you’ll always know who cooked them up. Dig in to this delectable feast for the eyes, but take the time to savor each course.”
– Peter Cherches, author of Lift Your Right Arm
Black Scat Classic Interim Edition – No. 08
Publication: May 14
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Selected Plays of Alphonse Allais
Translated from the French by Doug Skinner
Rare theatrical works by the great French humorist.
Absurdist Texts & Documents – No. 28
Publication: July 9
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And more to come.
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