[kj] Nick Blinko - The Haunted Head

[Steve Hackett]

very interesting..cheers Pete
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  From: Peter Moltesen 
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  Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 5:17 PM
  Subject: [kj] Nick Blinko - The Haunted Head


  From Current 93's latest newsletter  

  for anyone who's interested

   

  Peter

  Nick Blinko: 'The Haunted Head'

  I went to lunch last week with Nick and Henry Boxer, our mutual friend and Nick's agent. We have made some final decisions about our publication of Nick's strange and dreamlike novel, and we will be putting this book up on Durtro very soon for advance orders.

  However, before we post a definitive statement about the volume, I just wanted to write a brief description of the book. The hard-back edition will be a limited edition, with blocked covers and spine, pictorial end-papers with Nick's work on them, and a book-ribbon. The novel itself is 200 pages long. Each copy will come with a 1-track CD featuring a newly-recorded and previously unreleased Rudimentary Peni song.

  Nick wrote out the book twice, in his obsessively beautiful handwriting. One of these copies was written in an A4 pad, and the other version over approximately 350 one-sided white postcards measuring 3 1/2" × 5 1/2" (90 × 147mm). Three random examples are shown. Each copy of the book comes with one of these original postcards with text from the novel. This of course means that the book is limited to the number of manuscript cards. Once the cards are finished, the edition is ended.

        

  At the same time, we will be adding a collection of identically-sized postcards of Nick's artwork onto the Durtro shop, at various prices which will depend on the size and complexity of the image on the postcard.

  Nick Blinko's text drawings have been included in several museum shows and touring exhibitions in the UK and France, whilst others are housed in the permanent collections of the following museums: The Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne and the Outsider Collection & Archive, London.



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