Search Results: Titles starting with W from Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare

First Edition. A complete run in three unpaginated issues, [8,10,14] pp., illustrated throughout with reproductions of original collage art, punk concert flyers, drawings, and photographs by Bill Daniel (credited here as "Photobill.") 4to. Very good. Nos. 1 & 2 stapled, no. 3 machine sewn. [993]
Despite its brief existence, Western Roundup can be seen as a missive from the pinnacle moment of the Austin punk explosion of the early 1980s, notable for its local blend of "hillbilly-beatnik-punk" flavors. In a statement on the inside front page of issue 1, the reader is addressed as follows: "CALL OF THE SOUTHWEST. Say you're bored with Texas? Grab the bull by the horns! Have a party, start a band, perpetrate a hoax. Don't give up just because everyone else has. A swift kick in the ass will knock them into past and propel YOU into the future. In a world populated by peckernecks, by golly, you've got the edge." Images include local photos of Black Flag, Stains, Big Boys, and Rank & File, Dicks, Jitters,… Read More

Twelve offset lithographic poster prints on commercial stock, each one showing a darkly satirical vision of white male privilege and its abuses as reflected by American popular culture of the era. Folio. Near fine. Loose as issued in a folded cardstock portfolio. [465]
Glier's portfolio featured in The Ritz Hotel Project, a collaborative exhibition organized by COLAB group in conjunction with the D.C.-based Washington Project for the Arts. The groups hoped to produce an event similar to COLAB's notorious Times Square Show (1980), meaning to provoke a greater consciousness of the political potentials of visual art in the nation's capital. Participating artists broke into a dilapidated building at 920 F St. where they turned the abandoned hotel into a temporary museum. After a two-week run, District officials succeeded in closing the show for safety violations, and condemned the property.