Images from a comic book by the Hairy Who, courtesy of Dan Nadel:

Dan is selling a copy of this 1968 uber-rarity signed by member Karl Wirsum.

In the Ganzfeld 3, Dan Nadel assembled a 40-page overview of the Hairy Who, interviewing four of its six members. It’s a perfect introduction to an amazing collective and I suggest coughing up your $10 before it’s gone (published in 2003). From the intro:

The bare facts are these: “Hairy Who” was originally the name of a 1966 group exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. When that group, all graduates of the Art Institute of Chicago, mounted more shows, they kept the name…. The Hairy Who consisted of just six artists: Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nelson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum. There were other quirkily named group shows at the Hyde Park Art Center and elsewhere, some with various members of the Hairy Who and other Chicago artists of similar bents (Roger Brown and Christina Ramberg, for example), but the Hairy Who was limited to just…five shows and six participating artists. As installations, the shows were artworks unto themselves, and were accompanied by inexpensive comic book format publications for which the group did their own color separations and either produced new work or adapted preexisting images. The group dissolved when the members began to move away from the city; first Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson to California in 1968 and then Art Green to Canada in 1969. All of the members remain active in the arts.

Also see: A look at Karl Wirsum’s drawings

Highly recommended: Winsome Works (Some)

Also see: Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character exhibit

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Twentieth-century French artist’s books from the staggering Koopman Collection:

Le livre blanc by Cocteau, 1930, frontispiece

(The White Book from City Lights)

Albert Flocon, illustration for Perspectives by Paul Eluard

Albert Flocon, cover for Perspectives by Paul Eluard

Alexeieff, illus. for stories by Hoffmann, 1960

La pieuvre by Victor Hugo, illus. André Masson (Buenos Aires, Éditions des Lettres françaises, 1944)

Paludes by Gide, illus. Alexandra Grinevski, 1930

La jeune Parque by Paul Valéry, illus. Jean-Gabriel Daragnès, 1925 cover

La jeune Parque by Paul Valéry, illus. Jean-Gabriel Daragnès, 1925 colophon

Clouk et Chéri by Colette, illus. André Dignimont, 1935 title page

Le peseur d’âmes bu Maurois, illus. Picabia, 1931

La fin du monde, filmée par l’Ange N.-D. by Cendrars, illus. Fernand Leger, 1919

Dolorine et les ombres by Jean de Bosschère, 1911

Les chants de Maldoror, illus. Frans De Geetere, 1927, frontispiece vol.2

Les mains libres by Eluard, illus. by Man Ray, 1937

Dormir, dormir dans les pierres by Benjamin Péret, illus. Yves Tanguy, 1927

Amphitryon 38 by Giraudoux, illus. Mariano Andreu, 1931 title page

Mimes by Marcel Schwob, cover by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950), 1933

Monsieur de Bougrelon by Jean Lorrain, illus. Adrien Étienne Drian, 1927 colophon

Kees van Dongen, lithograph for Les lépreuses by Henry de Montherlant, 1947

Le livre de la vérité de parole by Mardrus, illus. François Louis Schmied, 1929

The post title is a reference to Emerson’s quote “A man’s library is a sort of harem.” (Via book porn.)

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“Specimen portrait banners” from Julian Montague‘s installation Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed:

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:Always when working at height… wear your safety belt OTHERWISE

Do not enter… in cells until after taking all the labour safety measures

Do not put your hand in the inlet feed

Click here to view more Romanian safety posters.

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Illustrations by Aazarnoush Ebraahemiroushan for The Star of Manners and Letters (Iran, 1986). The book features “a selection of 4 poems by a famous contemporary poet teaching a code of morals.

From the International Children’s Digital Library

Previously:
–Iranian Kids’ Books (part 1)
–Iranian Kids’ Books (part 2)
–Iranian Kids’ Books (part 3)
–Iranian Kids’ Books (part 4: Fereshteh Najafi)
–The Persian Peter Max
–The Story of a Silkworm

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Psychedelic art by teenage drug patients in 1970s West Germany:
From the book Rausch im Bild – Bilderrausch

G.M., 1973

G.M., 1973

G.M., undated

Marcia Blaessle, Eiweissmolekule, undated

Marcia Blaessle, Die Schlange, welche sich nicht hauten kann, geht zugrunde, 1980

H.St., undated

H.St., undated

B.H, undated

B.H, undated

Marcia Blaessle, 1972

Marcia Blaessle, 1972

K. We., undated

R.V., 1972

R.V., 1974

M. St., The hyper Radsha of the cosmic milky ocean, undated

K. Wi., undated

Previously: I’m gonna meet you on the astral plane

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Josef Váchal‘s illustrations for poems by Otokar Březina:

Compliments of (another) Josef, who shares gems from his book collection on flickr.

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Une cure de sommeil, illus. by Hartley

All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1968)
volume 10: L’homme et son Esprit 2.

To see the previous volumes click here.

L’homme et son esprit, illus. Folon

Consequences des frustrations affectives dans la premiere enfance, illus. by Jean

Maladies mentales et classes sociales, collage by Schmid

Boxe et traumatisme cranien, photo Howard Sochurek-Magnum

Les centres de la fatigue nerveuse, illus. Kailhen and Wyss

Les relations du malade avec son medecin, illus. by Schmid

Le psychanalyse, illus. by Patergnani

La lutte contre l’alcoolisme, document Comite national de Defense contre l’Alcoolisme

‘Le labyrinthe,’ illus. William Kurelek, Toronto

Types psychiques et somatiques d’apres Thooris, Sheldon et Kretschmer

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Four blown-up details from the spread for “Les States de l’Eros,” illustrations by Chaillet (channeling Hans Bellmer):

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Bill Adams is my new mind-damaging hero:

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

courtesy of the artist, Bill Adams (gallery / flickr)

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Diagrams and illustrations by Tom Lewis for the CRM textbooks Life and Health (1972) and Developmental Psychology Today (1971):

“The functions of the various parts of the brain are shown here schematically”

“The difference between stereotyped and plastic behaviors”

“State 1 grammar of Gia, age 19 months”

“State 2 grammar of Gia, age 20 months”

“Diagrammatic outline of the classical conditioning procedure”

“Diagrammatic outline of positive reinforcement…”

“Stimuli required to elicit smiling response in infants of various ages; after Ahrens”

“Sociogram of a fifth grade – January; after Brown”

“Sociogram of a fifth grade – October; after Brown”

“Blood type inheritance”

“A Child’s Notion of the word ‘Dog’ around age of 14 months”

“Diagrammatic outline of habituation”

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