{"product_id":"kim-gordon-mike-kelley-fama-fortune-heft-8-1991","title":"KIM GORDON \u0026 MIKE KELLEY — FAMA \u0026 FORTUNE, HEFT 8 (1991), PAKESCH \u0026 SCHLEBRÜGGE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeatured Artists:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTypesetting:\u003c\/strong\u003e PCG Wien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Verlag Pakesch \u0026amp; Schlebrügge, Vienna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Heft 8 \/ Issue No. 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 32 — unpaginated\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 27 × 17 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English \/ German\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3-8898022-0\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrinter:\u003c\/strong\u003e REMAprint, Vienna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine — exceptionally well preserved, with no visible defects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssue No. 8 of \u003cem\u003eFama \u0026amp; Fortune\u003c\/em\u003e, the artist-publication series issued in Vienna by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Schlebrügge, brings together Kim Gordon and Mike Kelley in a compact publication dating from November 1991.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConceived as artist-driven printed objects rather than conventional exhibition catalogues, \u003cem\u003eFama \u0026amp; Fortune\u003c\/em\u003e was issued in small formats and circulated through the Viennese and international contemporary art scene of the early 1990s. The series reflects a period in which independent publishing became an important extension of artistic practice, allowing artists to work directly with image, text, and reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pairing of Gordon and Kelley captures a particularly fertile intersection between underground music and contemporary art. Gordon, best known as a founding member of Sonic Youth, was also deeply engaged with visual art and writing, while Kelley had established himself as a major figure in the Los Angeles art scene through a practice concerned with memory, popular culture, objects, performance, and the darker psychology of American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe issue documents a moment in which these two spheres increasingly overlapped. Kelley’s work would appear on the cover of Sonic Youth’s \u003cem\u003eDirty\u003c\/em\u003e the following year, making this publication an especially evocative record of the cultural exchange developing between downtown music and contemporary art at the beginning of the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTypeset by PCG Wien and printed by REMAprint in Vienna, the issue retains the direct, modest physical character central to the series. Its small format and limited pagination reinforce its status as an intimate artist publication rather than a conventional institutional document.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFama \u0026amp; Fortune No. 8\u003c\/em\u003e is a particularly strong collectible for its connection to both Kim Gordon and Mike Kelley, and for the way it preserves a precise moment in the convergence of experimental music, artist publishing, and contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"kim gordon \u0026 mike kelley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67686276530464,"sku":null,"price":3000.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0878\/0202\/0128\/files\/kim-gordon-mike-kelley-fama-fortune-heft-8-1991-cover-intermission.jpg?v=1791484978","url":"https:\/\/intermissionbooks.com\/products\/kim-gordon-mike-kelley-fama-fortune-heft-8-1991","provider":"intermission books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}