Dope Menace

Klappentext The lurid glories of twentieth-century pulp drug literature. Vorwort Exhibition of drug literature paperbacks at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles. New York exhibition also expected. Zusammenfassung " Dope Menace boasts hundreds of full color images from the wicked subgenre of drug-exploitation narratives... The covers that made these authors books so easy to pick up are collected here for the first time! in all their seductive and transgressive glory."-- Tucson Weekly While we now enjoy this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch! gloriously bad writing! and outlandish misinformation! drug paperback books were once a transgressive medium with a perversely seductive quality. Dope Menace collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color! from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughs’ Junkie to the spaced-out psychedelic ’60s. We mustn’t forget the gonzo paranoia brought on by Hunter S. Thompson in the ’70s! when anything was everything. Author Stephen J. Gertz is a well-regarded authority on antiquarian books and contributor to Feral House’s Sin-A-Rama ! an award-winning visual history of sleaze paperbacks from the sixties. Annie Nocenti ! longtime editor of High Times magazine! offers an informative foreword.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Gertz, Stephen J. Gertz
• Assisted by: Annie Nocenti (Foreword)
• Publisher: Feral house
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.12.2008
• EAN: 9781932595345
• ISBN: 978-1-932595-34-5
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 255 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Illustration, USA, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, c 1960 to c 1970, United States of America, USA, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980