London: ZG Magazine, [1983]. [32]pp; b&w halftone illus. Unbound in pictorial wraps, 16-1/2 x 11-3/4 in. Horizontal center fold; edge wear with some small losses at top forecorner (cat bite?); small tape repair to fore-edge of front cover. About very good.
Eighth of fifteen total issues of this edgy UK artists' periodical comprised of "critical writings and artists' projects, approaching visual art as one facet of a wider arena of cultural production including fashion, punk music, and television" (Allen, Artists' Magazines, p. 313). This issue on the theme "heroes." Contents include punk music journalist Jon Savage on Edie Sedgwick and Brian Jones; Joan Wallace and Geralyn Donohoe on Cindy Sherman; John Howell on "the male hero figure in country and western music"; Josh Baer on Julian Schabel, Joseph Beuys, and Gilbert and Geroge; Tony Benn on Elvis; Merle Ginsberg, Mary Harron, Jonathan Miles, Krystina Kitsis, Philip Lonk, et al. With art by Sherrie Levine and Barbara Kruger. Front cover and centerfold by Jan Wandja.
