• Magazine cover, ZG Magazine No. 13: Political Fictions, edited by Rosetta Brooks, Spring 1985. Offset-printed, staple-bound periodical, 41.9 × 27.9 cm. Bold yellow and black diagonal hazard-stripe ground. Upper left: grey sans-serif 'ZG' logotype. Upper right: grey sans-serif 'POLITICAL FICTIONS' in two lines. Centre: white line-drawn face — open mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, long hair, distressed expression — by Nancy Dwyer. Upper right corner: 'NO. 13 SPRING 85 / £1.30 $3.00'. Handling wear, rubbing, creasing
  • Interior spread, ZG Magazine No. 13: Political Fictions, edited by Rosetta Brooks, Spring 1985. Pages 4–5. 'Image Dislocation' — essay by Krystina Kitsis. Left page: large black-and-white press photograph of Margaret Thatcher; caption 'HEADS OF STATE: Mrs Thatcher takes a critical look at "herself" today'; below: black-and-white photograph of a woman in a '58% DON'T WANT PERSHING' protest T-shirt at a formal event; dense two-column text. Right page: grid of black-and-white press photographs — women in domes
  • Back cover, ZG Magazine No. 13: Political Fictions, edited by Rosetta Brooks, Spring 1985. Black-and-white photographic ground — dramatic cloudscape, grey sky. Yellow line-drawn face overlaid — same distressed figure as front cover, rendered in yellow marker-style lines; open mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, long hair. Small blue ZG logotype lower centre. Cover art by Nancy Dwyer. Handling wear and age toning consistent with large-format periodical of this period.
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ZG Magazine

ROSETTA BROOKS (ed.) — ZG Magazine No. 13: Political Fictions, Spring 1985

ROSETTA BROOKS (ed.) — ZG Magazine No. 13: Political Fictions, Spring 1985

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Periodical, ZG Magazine No. 13: Political Fictions. Edited by Rosetta Brooks. Spring 1985. Offset-printed, staple-bound, illustrated wrappers, black-and-white interior, 41.9 × 27.9 cm, 27 pp. Front and back cover art by Nancy Dwyer.

Contributions by Rosetta Brooks, Josh Baer, Krystina Kitsis, J.G. Ballard, Richard Prince, Robert Kleyn, Gary Indiana, Michael Newman, John Roberts, Gray Watson, Jonathan Miles, and others.

ZG was one of the sharp independent art and culture magazines of the 1980s, moving between contemporary art, fashion, theory, music, media, and politics. Edited by Rosetta Brooks, it helped frame the period’s image culture as something unstable, political, and highly constructed. This issue is especially strong for its mix of Ballard, Richard Prince, Gary Indiana, Krystina Kitsis, and Nancy Dwyer, placing fiction, appropriation, fashion, and criticism into the same printed field.

Within The New Rare register, this is a strong period object: a large printed support for the circulation of 1980s art and theory. Not a catalogue and not simply a magazine, but a temporary exhibition space in paper form.

Condition: Good vintage condition. Visible handling wear, rubbing, creasing, edge and corner wear to wrappers, and age-related surface marks. Interior pages present well, with general signs of use and storage. Ships flat with protective packaging; international shipping available.

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