• Original 1978 Kathy Acker The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec paperback, TVRT Press and Printed Matter, New York. Front cover with black-and-white photographic image of two pairs of legs, one in stockings raised in the air, the other bare and low. Title in lowercase serif type: all she wants is love... Publisher imprints PM and TVRT Press at foot with ISBN 0-931106-21-4. Original price $4.50 at top left. Covers with age toning and surface wear.
  • Reverse of 1978 Kathy Acker The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec, TVRT Press and Printed Matter. Back cover with black-and-white photographic image of intertwined bare limbs and hands. Title and author credit in white serif type at lower centre: The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec / By Henri Toulouse Lautrec. Age toning and surface scuffing to covers.
  • Interior spread of 1978 Kathy Acker The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec, TVRT Press and Printed Matter. Left page shows copyright and publication details: copyright 1975 and 1978 Kathy Acker, published by TVRT Press and Printed Matter Inc., New York, with drawings by William Wegman, ISBN 0-931106-21-4. Right page shows table of contents listing seven chapters including The Case of the Murdered Twerp, Longing for Better Things, The Desperation of the Poor, The Creation of the World, How Love Can Lead Youngste
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TVRT Press / Printed Matter

Kathy Acker — The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (1978)

Kathy Acker — The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (1978)

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Kathy Acker, The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec. New York: TVRT Press / Printed Matter, 1978. Softcover. 201 pp. 11.5 × 16.5 cm. Offset printed wrappers with black-and-white cover image. Drawings by William Wegman.

Condition: Good. Light marking, rubbing, age wear, and surface scuffing to covers. Interior pages clean.

Early Kathy Acker title, first issued through TVRT Press and Printed Matter in 1978. The book gathers Acker's serial project into a complete paperback edition, using false authorship, biography, plagiarism, sexuality, and literary cut-up as material. Published before her wider 1980s recognition, it belongs to the downtown New York context around artists' books, performance, punk writing, and Printed Matter's early distribution network.

Acker takes Toulouse-Lautrec less as subject than as borrowed structure. The artist's name becomes a mask; biography becomes fiction; the book becomes an unstable printed support for authorship under pressure.

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