Visions of Pope Adrian 37th.
London: Coptic Cat, 2011. First Edition - Special (Deluxe). Hardcover. Quarto. vi + 178pp. Fine purple cloth with gilt Papal illustration to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, black endpapers. All edges gilt. The special or deluxe edition, limited to 37 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist and with an original papal portrait DRAWING by him on the page following the Introduction (the drawing in this special issue is considerably more elaborate than the ones that appeared in the standard). 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] special edition is limited to 37 numbered copies, is bound in purple Arbelave Buckram; has a larger front image than the standard edition, which is, like the spine text, gold-blocked onto the cover. The book has purple and black head- and tail-bands and black endpapers; all three page-edges are gilded. An original portrait of Pope Adrian 37th by Blinko, larger and more elaborate than that in the standard edition, is drawn by the artist in each copy; the page is also signed by him. ... 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 #65078
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