Johannes Baader (1875-1955) grew up in Stuttgart and studied architecture in that town from 1898 to 1899. After having met Raoul Hausmann, Baader moved to Berlin in 1905, where Hausmann introduced him to a circle of artists that would germinate into Berlin Dada some ten years later…
A high octane abstract speed metal inspired hip hop album by THE RAMMELLZEE. Nearly a decade since his passing, the works of infamous graffiti artist, sculptor, rapper, and self-described “gothic futurist” Rammellzee continue to push the boundaries of visual art, music and metaphysical thought. Recorded mostly in 2006 and 2007 with producer/composer Jonah “Th’ Mole” Mociun, the album Cosmic Flush is finally being released in full for the first time…
Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi co-founded and edited the English literary magazine Merlin in Paris from 1952 to 1954. Merlin was pivotal in publishing works by Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre a.o. in English. After the magazine had folded, Trocchi got addicted to heroin and wrote a string of pornographic books for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press to sustain himself and feed his addiction. Young Adam, although spiced up with erotic scenes at the request of Girodias, is…
Zap Comix was a series of comic zines initiated by Robert Crumb in 1968 to showcase his own work. The series is considered to have launched the underground comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Zap Comix saw 16 issues, the last having been published as late as 2014. The first issue was sold on the streets of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district and aimed at the district’s alternative inhabitants, its adult and psychedelic contents free of restraints imposed by censorship of the Comics Code Authority. For the second issue Crumb invited fellow-artists Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson and Victor Moscose to contribute…
Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi co-founded and edited the English literary magazine Merlin in Paris from 1952 to 1954. Merlin was pivotal in publishing works by Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre a.o. in English. After the magazine had folded, Trocchi got addicted to heroin and wrote a string of pornographic books for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press to sustain himself and feed his addiction. Young Adam, although spiced up with erotic scenes at the request of Girodias, is…