Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973-1977 (signed Limited edition)

New York/ Los Angeles: Picture Book Studio, 2011. New York/ Los Angeles: Picture Book Studio, 2011. Limited signed edition of 50 copies with an original two-sided offset print produced for DAM Magazine #1, signed by Niagara and and stamped/signed by Cary Loren. The print is from a page of the first printing of DAM magazine in 1976, printed offet by Loren in blue ink, photograph of Niagara and knife on one side and actress Tuesday Weld on the other, blue and black on colored pink paper. The book has been signed by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Jim Shaw and Niagara, The influential Detroit "anti-rock" group Destroy All Monsters (Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, Jim Shaw) made raucous music, irreverent art and legendary zines, performing and disseminating their activities through an elaborate self-mythology. The Destroy All Monsters zines have been reprinted in facsimile editions, but the art objects made by the members have never been examined as independent works. Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1974-1977 is the first retrospective of the artwork itself, as well as a DAM overview. Produced in collaboration with the artists, it collects the work of the collective between circa 1974-1977, almost all of which is previously unpublished. Included are dozens of candid photographs of the group and their environs by DAM member Carey Loren, which serve as both documents of a proto-punk group at its height and snapshots of the collective's often hilarious attempts to construct identities as characters in the larger Destroy All Monsters mythology. . Original Wraps. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.. y. Paperback. As New/As New. Book.