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Formed in 1973, the Detroit band Destroy All Monsters was a wild and reckless synthesis of psychedelia, proto-punk, heavy metal, noise and performance art. The collective hailed from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and consisted of Cary Loren, Mike Kelley, Niagara and Jim Shaw (with later members including Ron Asheton of the Stooges and Michael Davis of the MC5). Later emerging as extremely distinctive individual artists, collectively the group forged new terrain in art, music, performance, theater and video. Destroy All Monsters released very little recorded music until Thurston Moore issued a three-CD compilation in 1994, but they published six issues of a now legendary and much sought-after zine, also titled Destroy All Monsters. This publication collects those six zines, released between 1976 and 1979, and also includes parts of a lost seventh issue that never saw publication. The Destroy All Monsters zines comprise a vibrant array of collage, writing, photography and other miscellanea by Kelley, Loren,… Read More

MInt copy in wraps, Signed by both Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. "This artistic family burlesque act takes the stage for a revue of their 1987–99 collaborations, plus a little something new (the photodocument Sod and Sodie Sock Portfolio), in a show curated by the Power Plant's Philip Monk. Like Robert Gober, Kelley and McCarthy triangulate the law of the father with social control and modernist authority. But their abjection is aggressive, and their libidinal impulses squirt in all directions. Best known for Heidi, their chocolate-coated elfin horrorshow, the boys also take on hi/lo, performance art, and the US army in their down-and-dirty videos, photography, and installations. Pack a lunch and bring the kids."— Katy Siegel, Artforum

Inscribed copy signed and dated with a small drawing of intwined figures in 1985 to photographer Neil Pollen, bright VF as new copy