Published in 2022.  We had this in the shop but not on the site... until now!

To get up to speed, and get an idea of what's in store here, check out this lavishly illustrated interview with Laurie Lipton on Beinart, HERE.  (only a couple of the illustrations shown here are included in the book; most of what is in the book is of more recent vintage and more politically orienrted)

Last Gasp sez: 

Laurie Lipton draws on canvases that are improbably large, using only pencil and charcoal. The images she renders present our modern world in scathing critique.

The artwork is part of three ongoing series entitled Techno Rococo, Post Truth, and May You Live in Interesting Times.

In these she addresses social media, unchecked consumerism, intellectual decline, environmental catastrophe, and soul-crushing isolation, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Her sprawling phantasmagorias have earned her a broad constituency of fans and collectors, from scholars and aficionados of the Flemish and German Renaissance, to savvy contemporary gallerists and collectors, to filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and James Scott (who directed the award-winning 2016 documentary about her, Love Bite) and finally to a massive and loyal social-media following.

Includes introductory essay “Laurie Lipton and the Golden Thread” by Richard Speer.

Laurie Lipton drawing
Hardcover • 9” x 11” •112 pages
ISBN 9780867198881
 

Originally published in 1984 by Panjandrum books, this is the 1990 Last Gasp edition (which is also now long out of print). 

LAST GASP SEZ:

Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) lived fast, died young, and refused to accept objective reality. He was a major influence on artistic movements such as Dada and Surrealism, and his nihilistic 1896 play, "Ubu Roi", is acknowledged as the turning point in modern drama. In "The Man with the Axe", author Nigey Lennon and illustrator/underground comix legend Bill Griffith take an appropriately surrealistic graphic approach to chronicling the absurd life of this seminal figure. As the first-ever non-academic biography of Jarry, "The Man with the Axe" has been legendary since its initial publication in 1984. AirStream Books is proud to re-introduce it in e-book format to a new generation of readers. Features full-color cover art and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Bill Griffith, as well as a hilarious short story, "The Pataphysician", by Nigey Lennon.

FROM THE ARCHIVES:  a small stack of NEW copies