The Velvet Underground's drummer in Nepal
MACLISE, Angus. The Subliminal Report. Nepal: Bardo Matrix. 1975.
4to. Original illustrated wrappers, front printed in black and illustrated with a woodblock profile of MacLise situated within a lunar circle, 'Shadow of the Poet'; artist's printed signature on rear wrapper; thread-bound; black tissue guards inside wrappers; two photographs printed in silver ink on white machine-made paper by Ira Cohen; printed on Bhutanese silk paper; minute chip to bottom edge of front cover, better preserved than usually encountered.
First and only edition, number 285 of a limited run of 500 copies. An extended poem by an innovative yet reclusive personality in the New York underground 1960s Art scene.
Angus W. MacLise, although also poet and artist, is best known for being the initial drummer for The Velvet Underground. He quit after the band's first paying gig on the grounds that they were selling out and was replaced by Moe Tucker. Living in Nepal in the early 1970s, MacLise founded Bardo Matrix Press in Kathmandu with photographer and publisher Ira Cohen. Together they were responsible for the publication of radical works by characters such as Paul Bowles, Diane Di Prima and Gregory Corso as well as their own writings.
SKU: 2120899
The Velvet Underground's drummer in Nepal
MACLISE, Angus. The Subliminal Report. Nepal: Bardo Matrix. 1975.
4to. Original illustrated wrappers, front printed in black and illustrated with a woodblock profile of MacLise situated within a lunar circle, 'Shadow of the Poet'; artist's printed signature on rear wrapper; thread-bound; black tissue guards inside wrappers; two photographs printed in silver ink on white machine-made paper by Ira Cohen; printed on Bhutanese silk paper; minute chip to bottom edge of front cover, better preserved than usually encountered.
First and only edition, number 285 of a limited run of 500 copies. An extended poem by an innovative yet reclusive personality in the New York underground 1960s Art scene.
Angus W. MacLise, although also poet and artist, is best known for being the initial drummer for The Velvet Underground. He quit after the band's first paying gig on the grounds that they were selling out and was replaced by Moe Tucker. Living in Nepal in the early 1970s, MacLise founded Bardo Matrix Press in Kathmandu with photographer and publisher Ira Cohen. Together they were responsible for the publication of radical works by characters such as Paul Bowles, Diane Di Prima and Gregory Corso as well as their own writings.
SKU: 2120899
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