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LE GUN No5: Close Eyes to Exit
ISBN: 9780956725417
(PB - E)
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After adventures in mainland Europe and the lands of the rising sun, LE GUN#5 is set to grace lavatories, poodle-parlours, bars and bookshelves far and wide. Somewhere between art object and pulp fiction, LE GUN #5 is a collage of art by disparate individuals, a free wheeling 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 contributor's minds, a rich celebration of drawing and story telling. LE GUN #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 punk/Deathrock band Rudimentary Peni. Emma Rendel, the spearhead of Swedish surrealism, provides a special insert: Aquiring Success in Your Professional Career Through the Science of Personal Achievement, James Unsworth presents his Ninja Turtle Sex Museum, camp taxidermy comes from Hernan Bas, Charles Avery's imaginary Island makes an appearance, the macabre tableaux of Laurie Lipton appear for the first time in LE GUN, while words from the 'Hunter S. Thompson of Hartlepool', Michael Smith help complete the assemblage...
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