The International Journal of Prototypes
#5 — “The Goddess Issue”
FEATURING: Tim Newton Anderson; Tom Bradley; Anton Chekhov; Norman Conquest; Caroline Crépiat; R J Dent; Max Ernst; Eurydice Eve; Luc Fierens; Leonor Fini; Théophile Gautier; Harold Jaffe; Amy Kurman; Lo; Michael Maier; Dmitri Manin; Elena Marini; Lilianne Milgrom; Opal Louis Nations; Marty Newman; Claudio Parentela; Angeleaux Pastormerleaux; Paul Rosheim; Jasia Reichardt; Doug Skinner; Phil Demise Smith; Tabarin; Lono Taggers; Corinne Taunay; Shyam Thandar; Stefan Themerson; Konstantin Vaginov, Gregory Wallace.
· TYPOGLYPHICS
· THE LOVES OF PHARAOH
· GODDESS OF NOIR
· MAX ERNST & LEONOR FINI LOVE LETTERS
· MEXICO’S SURREALIST GODDESSES
· SEXY PRINTER ORNAMENTS
· THE LOUIS XIII JOKESHOP
· CONJOINING WORDS
· SEMANTIC POETRY
· THE WOMEN OF ROME
· A BILINGUAL ACROSTIC REBUS
and much more
152 pp., trade paperback; $20
B A C K I S S U E S
#1
In this issue: Marc-Alain Barbot; Tom Barrett; Michael Betancourt; Isabelle B.L; Restif de la Bretonne; Mamie Caton; Norman Conquest; Caroline Crépiat; Art Dandy; Farewell Debut; Ange Degheest; Jean-Pierre Duffour; Luc Fierens; Jack Granath; Isidore Isou; Amy Kurman; Claude Nicolas Ledoux; Giambattista Palatino; Raymond Queneau; Reese Saxment; Karen Shaw; Doug Skinner; Corinne Taunay; John J. Trause; Tristan Tzara; Cal Wenby; and Femke van der Wijk.
- Apollinaire Reincarnated
- Oulipian replacement theory
- Queneau’s pictogrammes
- Masonic mysteries
- Erotic typography
- Surrealist comics
- French graffiti
- Summantics
- Asemic poetry
- Designing dada
- Mnemonic alphabets
- 16th century monograms
- & errors, of course
148 pp., trade paperback; $20
#2
In this issue: Pierre Albert-Birot; Guillaume Apollinaire; Mark Axelrod-Sokolov; Tom Barrett; Allan Bealy; Miggs Burroughs; Jahan Cader; Janina Ciezadlo; Norman Conquest; Farewell Debut; R J Dent; Karen Eliot; Paul Éluard; Paul Forristal; Ryan Forsythe; Jesse Glass; Rick Henry; Rhys Hughes; Rory Hughes; Alfred Jarry; Richard Koman; Márton Koppány; Amy Kurman; Peter F. Murphy; Pata-No UN LTD; Gaston de Pawlowski; Derek Pell; Harry Polkinhorn; Tom Prime; Jason E. Rolfe; Ded Rysel; Doug Skinner; Giovanni Antonio Tagliente; Félix Vallotton; Andrew C. Wenaus; Adolphe Willette; Carla Wilson; William Wordsworth.
- Post-Neoist portraits
- Principles of double-talk
- Alien alphabets
- Desiring specimens
- Asemic architecture
- Paul Éluard poetry
- Titular typography
- Surrealist trivia
- Italian eye candy
- Curlicues in review
- Generic Sheet Music
- Jarry on the English language
- Historical filler text translations
- & much more
151 pp., trade paperback; $20
#3
In this issue: Tim Newton Anderson; Tom Barrett; Aloysius Bertrand; Michael Betancourt; André Breton; Jahan Cader; Norman Conquest; Farewell Debut; R J Dent; Germaine Dulac; Eckhard Gerdes; Boris Glikman; Vasilisk Gnedov; Amy Kurman; Edward Lee; Emilia Loseva; Gabriel Pomerand; R. Prost; Doug Skinner; De Villo Sloan; Robert R. Thurman; Nico Vassilakis.
- On the road with Ray Roussel
- Odd Notes to the typesetter
- Bonsai Italian postcards
- Erotic alphabets
- Classification of dreams
- Hawaiian board games
- Dead calling cards
- Russian Futurist poetry
- Adverbs Gone Wild
- Early Surrealist films
- Combinatronics
- Urban Rebuses
- Asemic writing
- Ballmer’s Barbie
- Litter Rat Tea
- Breton’s fish
- & much more
152 pp., trade paperback; $20
#4
IN THIS ISSUE: Tim Newton Anderson; Michael Betancourt; David Brizer; Steve Carll; Norman Conquest; Farewell Debut; R J Dent; Jesse Glass; Reinhard Goering; Rhys Hughes; Tim Hutchings; Mark Kanak; M. Kasper; Amy Kurman; Gabriel de Lautrec; Emilia Loseva; Jim McMenamin; O Homem do Saco; Jasia Reichardt; Doug Rice; Paul Rosheim; Doug Skinner; Franciszka Themerson; Stefan Thernerson; John Vieira; Gregory Wallace; Danny Winkler.
EIGHT RUSSIAN FUTURISTS
Velimir Khlebnikov, Igor Terentjev, Aleksey Kruchenykh, Vasily Kamensky, Pavel Kokorin, Tykhon Churylin, Bodjidar (Bogdan Gordejev), and David Burliuk.
· THE EVOLUTION OF IT
· TOUR DE PANTS
· PORTRAITS OF SADE
· SECONDHAND SMOKE SIGNALS
· ALFRED JARRY, TEEN PATAPHYSICIAN
· ANTIQUARIAN PUZZLES
· RUSSIAN FUTURISTS
· CUBIST TALES
· DRIBBLING DRABBLES
· MR. COPYRIGHT
· REINHARD GOERING STORIES
· THEMERSON’S LOST FILM
· FOUND FINDS
· TYPO’S TYPOS
And much more
152 pp., trade paperback; $20