Visions of Pope Adrian 37th.
London: Coptic Cat, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. vi + 178pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt Papal illustration to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, black endpapers. Edition limited to 370 copies, SIGNED by the artist and with an original papal portrait DRAWING by him on the page following the Introduction (there was also a numbered special edition). From the publisher's description: "Nick Blinko’s extraordinary ... book of his artwork, ... consists of 87 drawings, a brief introduction by Blinko, and a short piece on Blinko from the acclaimed writer, and specialist, on outsider art Professor Colin Rhodes. The drawings are reproduced in their original A5 size. [This] standard edition is limited to 370 copies, is bound in dark maroon Arbelave Buckram and the front image and spine text are gold-blocked onto the cover. The book has purple head- and tail-bands and black endpapers. Each copy contains an original portrait of Pope Adrian 37th, drawn by Blinko, who has also signed the same page, making every copy of the book unique. ... Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric was originally the title of a 1995 concept album by Nick’s band Rudimentary Peni, written while he was being detained in an English psychiatric hospital under Section 3 of the UK’s 1983 Mental Health Act. During that period, Nick was convinced that he was Pope Adrian 37th. Visions of Pope Adrian XXXVII was also the name Nick gave to a multimedia colour painting/drawing of his which was exhibited at St Martin in the Fields Church, London, by the National Schizophrenia Fellowship—now known as Rethink. The painting was executed in the 1980s, and was originally, and unsatisfactorily, titled Kaleidoscope before being re-named in the next decade." Nicholas John Blinko (b. 1961) is a British musician and "outsider" artist, whose intricately detailed pen-and-ink drawings and paintings have been shown in in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions in the UK, Europe, and the U.S.A. including a solo exhibit titled "Visions of Pope Adrian 37th" at Pallant House Gallery in the U.K. in the same year as this book was published (2011). The book, "Visions of Pope Adrian 37th" is Binko's third book, and the second of his works to have been published by David Tibet under his Coptic Cat imprint. Long Out-of-print and scarce. AS NEW in Fine condition. (no dust jacket issued). Item #65077
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