This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. Size matters! was the motto that Wilhelm Moser and David Culby took quite seriously when creating The Manipulator in Dusseldorf in the 1980s. This art magazine is an impressive 70 cm long by 50 cm wide and marks the…
Remember Cootie Catchers?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. Will you live in a mansion, drive a Ferrari, get your dream job, have two kids and marry your hot 12-year old crush? Or will your fate be to have a rusty pickup truck, work a minimum wage…
Mad Dog’s i
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Today’s post features an artist named Richard Stine and his book Smile in a Mad Dog’s i. Stine self-published this first edition in 1974 with 4000 copies. Inspired by the receipt books that newsboys used to…
“The Physical Impossibilities of Death in the Mind of Someone Living”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Damien Hirst is a world-renowned (and criticized) English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector, said to be the wealthiest living artist from the United Kingdom. In his I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere,…
Morbid beauty
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring material from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Of the many altered states of consciousness chronicled in the Santo Domingo Collection, death may be merely the most permanent; as a subject often circumnavigated out of discomfort, fear, superstition, or propriety, it takes its place alongside sexuality and drug…
On the Money
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection. This edition of Jules Boissière’s Propos d’un intoxiqué has featured before in this space – see this post for a copy formerly owned by its illustrator, Tsuguharu Foujita. This copy, however, warrants revisiting the title. Every page of this 240-volume book…
La Danse Macabre
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection. Eros, it should now be obvious, is intrinsic to the Santo Domingo Collection; it follows that Thanatos can’t be far behind. This lavish volume by Éditions Kra is entitled La Danse Macabre, and consists of twenty images by…