first edition
1969 · New York
by Golikova, Galina Vassilovna (text) and Gerald Laing (illus.)
24 loose french-folded screen print spreads, printed on one side, laid into silver printed wrapper. Housed in publisher's box covered in red corduroy, with printed clear acrylic slipcase. 47 x 36 cm. This copy no. 11, one of 80 signed deluxe edition copies from a total edition of 210. All prints present, clean, and bright. Cloth covered boards with splitting at inner paper hinges, but holding sturdy. Original acrylic slipcase is attracctive and free of cracks, however the top joins are beginning to separate at the weld. [1998]
A striking artist's book with colorful, minimal, abstract screen print designs and experimental, modular typography by Gerald Laing for a mystical, psychedelic text by G. V. Golikova. Gerald Laing was a Scottish pop artist who lived in New York in the 1960s where he associated with other prominent pop artists of the decade, before buying a castle in Scotland where he lived until his death in 2011. Golikova, author of the present text, was his second wife. While nowhere explicit in the text, the writing and prints are clearly inspired by the eponymous psychedelic compound. The screen printing for the book was done by noted German print studio Edition Domberger, who also produced work for many other prominent artists including Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Beuys, Herbert Beyer, and Josef Albers. A very scarce book, with only a couple of US institutional holdings that we can find (Inventory #: 1998a)
A striking artist's book with colorful, minimal, abstract screen print designs and experimental, modular typography by Gerald Laing for a mystical, psychedelic text by G. V. Golikova. Gerald Laing was a Scottish pop artist who lived in New York in the 1960s where he associated with other prominent pop artists of the decade, before buying a castle in Scotland where he lived until his death in 2011. Golikova, author of the present text, was his second wife. While nowhere explicit in the text, the writing and prints are clearly inspired by the eponymous psychedelic compound. The screen printing for the book was done by noted German print studio Edition Domberger, who also produced work for many other prominent artists including Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Beuys, Herbert Beyer, and Josef Albers. A very scarce book, with only a couple of US institutional holdings that we can find (Inventory #: 1998a)
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