JOURNAL; A Contemporary Art Magazine Spring

80 pp. B/w photographs illustrate scholarly articles about art, many by well-known theorists. Some photos provided by Joseph Vasta. This issue looks at Transgressive Phenomena. Chowchilla: An Account of the Fictive in Reality, by Robert Dean - about the trio who kidnapped a busfull of schoolchildren and held them for ransom. A Terrorism Book Report by Beverly Allen. The Soccer Riots at Heysel by Jean Baudrillard. INS Roundup of Dozens of Alien Freeway Squatters, by Peter Pae. The Text of Transgression: The City of Philadelphia Versus Move, by Robin Wagner-Pacifici. The Terrorist Individual by Konrad Kellen. Genet Regained by Felix Guattari. Detective Magazines, excerpted from Detective Magazines: Pornography for the Sexual Sadist? by P.E. Dietz, B. Harry, and R. R. Hazelwood. B/D: The Pornography of Violence, by Jean-Pierre Guens. Embracing Death: An Interview with Joel-Peter Witkin, by Sylvere Lotringer. Reconsidering Erotic Photography: Notes for a Project of Historical Salvage, by Abigail Solomon-Godeau. The Melodramatic Body, by Peter Brooks. The Figurative Incarnation of the Sentence: Notes on the Autographic Skin, by Georges Didi-Huberman. New Research on the Brain, by Robert Maurer. and Pathological Lying. Pet Lover's Lament: When Her Parrot Got Stolen, She Tried to Get Someone's Knee Broken, by Jesse Katz. Notes on the Tongue of the Tirilones, by Lurline Coltharp. and Another Collector, by Marita Hernandez. Saddle-stapled magazine. Light shelfwear. Small closed tear to top of cover. Very good.…