{"product_id":"william-s-burroughs-tony-shafrazi-gallery-1988","title":"William S. Burroughs — Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, 1988","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invite \/ folded catalogue. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, 1988. 14.5 × 22 cm folded; 73.5 × 22 cm unfolded. Offset printed on textured cream stock, sepia-toned images and text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good vintage condition; light age toning, minor handling marks, soft fold wear and small signs of storage consistent with printed gallery ephemera of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFolded exhibition brochure for Burroughs’ show at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, December 19, 1987 – January 24, 1988. The cover features Kate Simon’s now-celebrated photograph of Burroughs taken in Lawrence, Kansas on September 14, 1987: fedora, porch, shotgun across his lap. By this point Burroughs had moved beyond his literary reputation into a late visual practice, including the “shotgun paintings” made by firing into paint cans and wooden targets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, the brochure unfolds to include Burroughs’ essay “Entrance to the Museum of Lost Species” (1987), alongside sepia reproductions of works and the formal exhibition checklist. The text is not a standard gallery essay. It reads closer to a Burroughs field note: part description, part hallucinated catalogue, part verbal extension of the paintings. The works become strange specimens, fragments, creatures, ghosts, surfaces opened by violence and accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strong Shafrazi-period document: literary figure, image-maker, weapon, painting, catalogue and invite compressed into one folded printed object.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53963770855762,"sku":"BURROUGHS-SHAFRAZI-CAT-1988","price":105.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Burroughs_William._Show_invite_and_catalogue_Tony_Shafrazi_Gallery._1988_bb64a60d-392b-45b9-858b-d5189b2e608a.jpg?v=1783600751","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/william-s-burroughs-tony-shafrazi-gallery-1988","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}