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G.P.O. versus G.P-O : A Chronicle of Mail Art on trial coumpiled by Genesis P-Orridge and COUM

P-Orridge, Genesis

P-Orridge, Genesis

Geneva: Ecart Publications, 1976. No. 288 of 500 copies. [104]pp; b&w illus. 4to. Printed white wraps with white cloth strip at spine. Fine. Artist's book documenting a legal case brought against English musician and artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) by the General Post Office of Great Britain, who charged them with the distribution of obscene materials (a pair of mail art postcards including images of Queen Elizabeth collaged together with soft-core pornography). Includes reproductions of the offending postcards, along with sundry legal documents, letters (including to and from William S. Burroughs, who was quick to take up P-Orridge's case), statements of defense, newspaper clippings and articles about the case, etc. Reprinted by Primary Information in 2013. 

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