{"product_id":"art-rite-13-alan-suicide-alan-vega-1977","title":"ART-RITE — NO. 13 BY ALAN SUICIDE (ALAN VEGA)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Art-Rite Publishing Co., 149 Wooster Street, New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 1977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIssue:\u003c\/strong\u003e No. 13 — Alan Suicide (Alan Vega)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 26.6 × 20.3 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover, thin paper stock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine — exceptionally well preserved, with no visible imperfections or signs of wear. A remarkably clean copy, preserved in near-original condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArt-Rite\u003c\/em\u003e was the downtown New York art magazine of the 1970s that regularly handed entire issues over to individual artists, allowing them to turn the publication itself into an extension of their practice. No. 13, published in January 1977, belongs to Alan Suicide — Alan Vega, the singer and visual artist best known as one half of the proto-punk duo Suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than functioning as a conventional art magazine, Vega’s issue reads as a deliberately chaotic portrait of the “underculture.” The cover features jockey Jorge Velasquez, while the interior brings together Iggy Pop, Ghost Rider, Willy DeVille of Mink DeVille photographed by Curtis Knapp, a photograph by Donald Greenhaus, and a painting by Joseph Catuccio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe issue moves freely between horse racing, rock and roll, pornography, motorcycles, physical culture, street imagery, and the darker edges of American popular culture. Its stated dedication to “the average American searching for excitement” captures the deliberately confrontational attitude of the publication and Vega’s own visual world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted on extremely thin, newsprint-weight paper, the issue was produced at the intersection of the downtown art world and the emerging CBGB-era music scene. Its physical fragility, limited circulation, and highly specific authorship make surviving copies particularly difficult to find in exceptional condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo. 13 is an especially rare issue of \u003cem\u003eArt-Rite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e because it is not simply an issue featuring Alan Vega—it is an entire publication shaped around Vega’s own visual universe at a crucial moment in New York’s cultural history. Published in January 1977, just as Suicide was becoming increasingly influential within the downtown scene, it documents the point where the SoHo art world, punk, experimental music, and the underground press were still operating within the same small network.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the issue stands as a primary document of the period when New York’s art and music underground began to collapse into one another. This copy is particularly desirable for its \u003cstrong\u003eexceptionally clean condition\u003c\/strong\u003e, with no visible imperfections despite the inherently fragile paper stock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"art-rite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67646215880992,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0878\/0202\/0128\/files\/art-rite-13-alan-suicide-alan-vega-1977-cover-intermission.jpg?v=1791251110","url":"https:\/\/intermissionbooks.com\/products\/art-rite-13-alan-suicide-alan-vega-1977","provider":"intermission books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}