• Exhibition catalogue cover, Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, New Museum of Contemporary Art / The MIT Press, New York / Cambridge MA, 1988. Softcover with French flaps, 27 × 18 cm. Bright blue ground. Bold white and black sans-serif typography — 'IMPRESARIO:' upper left in white; 'MALCOLM / MCLAREN / & THE BRITISH / NEW / WAVE' in large black below. Inset colour photograph lower right — three figures in police uniforms, two in helmets, one in peaked cap; direct camera gaze. Rubbing and sc
  • Exhibition catalogue back cover, Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, New Museum of Contemporary Art / The MIT Press, New York / Cambridge MA, 1988. Bright blue ground. Centre: inset colour photograph within black film-strip border — blue-painted male figure holding yellow surfboard with yin-yang motif; seated male figure in black clothing on rocks; coastal landscape behind; 'KODAK EPR 6017' printed to film strip upper edge; 'EPR 11' and 'EPR 12' lower. Lower left: black sans-serif — 'THE NEW
  • Inside spread, Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, New Museum of Contemporary Art / The MIT Press, New York / Cambridge MA, 1988. Left page: cream ground; black-and-white photograph — Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood with a model wearing their Keith Haring knitwear designs; dynamic pose, studio setting; caption text vertical left edge. — 'Catalog © 1988 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York... Library of Congress Catalog Number: 88-045017; ISBN: 0-262-70
  • Interior spread, Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, 1988. Left page: blue ground. Large colour photograph — male figure (Malcolm McLaren) in grey-blue suit holding a pink satin-lined coat aloft in a cluttered clothing shop; garment rails with red and pink clothing behind; accessories and boxes on floor; caption vertical left edge: 'MCLAREN IN LET IT ROCK, 1972'. Right page: cream ground. Large black sans-serif — 'IMPRESARIO'. Good vintage condition. Im
  • Interior spread, Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, 1988. Pages 36–37. Left page: large black-and-white photograph — young Malcom McLaren in Teddy Boy suit on a London street; double-decker bus and terraced houses behind; caption lower left: 'SEX SHOP EXTERIOR, 1975'. Right page: two-column text — sections on McLaren and Westwood's shop SEX at 430 King's Road; references to Vivienne Westwood, punk, bondage wear, fetish clothing, and the shop's subversive intent. Good vintage condition.
  • Interior spread, Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, 1988. Pages 48–49. Section header: '5. THE YOUNG ARTIST'. Left page: two-column text — McLaren's art education at Goldsmiths College, Croydon Polytechnic, and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; references to Peter Blake, William Tucker, Frank Auerbach, Andrew Forge, Peter Cresswell, Jamie Reid, and the Sex Pistols. Right page: two black-and-white photographs — upper: aerial view of a car park or urban space, caption 'INSTALLATION, M
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New Museum of Contemporary Art / The MIT Press

MALCOLM MCLAREN / PAUL TAYLOR — Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, New Museum / MIT Press, 1988

MALCOLM MCLAREN / PAUL TAYLOR — Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, New Museum / MIT Press, 1988

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Exhibition catalogue, Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave. Paul Taylor (ed.). New Museum of Contemporary Art / The MIT Press, New York / Cambridge MA, 1988. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the New Museum, New York, 16 September–20 November 1988. Softcover with French flap covers, 27 × 18 cm, 77 pp. Illustrated in black-and-white and colour. ISBN 0-262-70055-2.

Texts and contributions by Paul Taylor, Dan Graham, Jon Savage, and Jane Withers, with preface and acknowledgements by Marcia Tucker and William Olander.

A New Museum / MIT Press publication from the moment when punk, fashion, music management, art school, and postmodern image culture entered the museum as a serious subject. McLaren is framed here not only as manager of the Sex Pistols or collaborator with Vivienne Westwood, but as a producer of images, attitudes, performances, and cultural systems.

Within The New Rare register, this is not simply a music book. It is an exhibition object recording the institutional absorption of punk and New Wave into contemporary art discourse. A document of transfer: street culture, fashion, record sleeve, shopfront, performance, and museum catalogue held in one printed form.

Out of print. Scarce in current circulation. Comparable copies appear intermittently online, with stronger examples generally sitting around the £85–95 range.

Condition: Good vintage condition. Rubbing and scuffing to blue covers, edge wear, softened corners, light marks and age toning to pages. Complete and structurally sound. Ships flat, protected and tracked where possible; UK and international shipping available.

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