Jim Shaw Life and Death (signed)

Jim Shaw’s Life and Death: A Non-Narrative Narrative is a small format artist book, edition unknown but likely around 500 copies. Size: 4.25 x 7.5″ signed by the author in Mint condition, 56 illustrations including front and back cover, with title page, and artwork identification page, ingenious airbrushed distortions of Hollywood characters and celebs. a JIM SHAW mind-meld created with some help from fellow bookmaker Ed Ruscha. This copy is pristine!Published by the End is Here, 1981.

“Jim Shaw’s “non-narrative” of more than 50 pages of meticulous black-and-white illustrations takes the reader on a dream-like journey through a fog of dissipating bodies as they traipse through urban streets, spew nonsensical exclamations, and become entangled in whimsical geometric compositions.”
–Printed Matter

$ 125.00