Genesis P-Orridge

A revealing memoir from a pioneering industrial musician and visual artist who inspired generations of outsiders, rebels, and risk-takers In a memoir spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, Genesis P-Orridge, the inventor of "industrial music," founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowned ﬁne artist takes us on a journey through creativity and destruction, pleasure and pain. Genesis's unwillingness to be stuck--in one place, in one genre, or in one gender--will be an inspiration to the newest generation of trailblazers and nonconformists. It's for an audience that cannot and will not be ignored. Nonbinary has far-reaching potential because of Genesis's remarkable body of work. It is full of great stories about Genesis's experiences with icons like William S. Burroughs and Ian Curtis.

A Memoir

Nonbinary

Esoterrorist II

Colin Naylor

st: The second edition (1983) is cited in Sheehy, BCL3 and ARBA. It shares the size and format of Contemporary architects and Contemporary photographers, and, to its discredit, the fragile plasticized paper-over-boards cover (a book of such bulk and subject to heavy use should have sturdy buckram-covered boards). ARBA has warned buyers of the second edition to retain the inclusive first. The change of greatest scholarly importance in the third is the revised literature citations. No respectable art reference collection can do without this title. The impecunious may choose to buy every other edition. The substance is admirable, detailing brief vital statistics, exhibitions by year, major collections of the artist's work, publications by, and on the artist, and a dense biography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contemporary Artists

Throbbing Gristle

Genesis P-Oridge, the legendary musician and artist from Manchester, opens his files to show the world never before seen texts, photos, artwork and magic. P-Orridge, whose Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV set the stage for modern industrial, punk and alternative music, comes clean on many of the issues surrounding his life, work and mystique. From the 1960s, when his art group the COUM Transmission set England on its ear, to his long career in music to the creation of his religion-as-a-joke-as-a-religion, Thee Temple Ov Psychic Youth, this book covers it all.

The Life and Art of Genesis P-Orridge

Painful But Fabulous

Aleister Crowley

Robert Anton Wilson

Scott Michaelsen

Infamous for scandalising society on both sides of the Atlantic Alisteir Crowley (1875-1947) was a brilliant man whose position as the major intellectual figure on the occult has often been eclipsed by his own notoriety. Portable Darkness is the first book to tackle the formidable task of collecting the best of his voluminous lifework. In bringing together Crowley's best writings, editor Scott Michaelsen makes Crowleyan philosophy both accessible and intelligible. Includes The Book of the Law, Hymn to Pan and many other classic works.

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