"Shotgun Paintings: Works on Wood & Paper" (1990)

Hokkaido, Japan: The Hokkaido Shimbun Press and the Sezon Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue), 1990.
9.625" x 10.125" x 0.25", 84 pages, softcover, no ISBN visible.

Shotgun Paintings: Works on Wood & Paper, an exhibition catalogue of art by William S. Burroughs, as published by the Hokkaido Shimbun Press and the Sezon Museum of Art (Hokkaido, Japan) in 1990. This is for the exhibition at The Seed Hall (Tokyo) between 14 June and 3 July 1990, and at Akarenga Hall (Sapporo, Japan) between 12 and 30 July 1990. Edited by Makito Hayashi and Takashi Momma. Cover design by Jun Shibata.

This contains a small text by William S. Burroughs entitled "The Picture Looks at You", p. 5. There is also a long essay on William S. Burroughs by James Grauerholz, written in 1988, in Japanese on pages 10-20 and in English on pages 21-29. 

This contains reproductions of approximately 35 paintings by Burroughs, and also includes the William S. Burroughs and Keith Haring collaboration Apocalypse, represented in black and white, with text in both English and in Japanese, at pages 72-77.

This includes photographs by Adrian Boot and Jon Blumb.

Shoaf II.264.
Schottlaender v4.B14.

Contents: 

• Adrian Boot: photograph of William S. Burroughs
• William S. Burroughs: "The Picture Looks at You" (essay)
• James W. Grauerholz: "William S. Burroughs" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs: plates:
• "Sore Shoulder" (paint on plywood, 1982)
• "AIDS Goes Airborne" (paint on plywood, 1982)
• "Escape from the Centipede Trought [sic]" (paint on plywood, 1989)
• "Wood Spirits" (paint on plywood, 1987)
• "Burning Car/Rain on Windshield" (paint on plywood, 1988)
• "Windows" (paint on plywood, 1988)
• "Untitled (Grids)" (paint on plywood, 1988)
• "Crumbling Ikons [sic] II" (paint on plywood, 1988)
• "Untitled (Windows 6)" (paint on window panes, 1988)
• "Hawk's Head" (paint on sheet metal, 1989)
• "Dark Metal" (paint on plywood, 1989)
• "Totems" (paint on wood, 1989)
• "Meow in All Languages, Living and Dead" (paint on illustration board, 1989)
• "Quake" (paint on paper, 1988)
• "A Ghostly Hand from the Narcissus" (paint on black card stock, 1988)
• "A Touch of Blue, Hello Where" (paint on paper, 1988)
• "Creation of the Homunculus" (paint on paper, 1989)
• "Alien Script" (paint on illustration board, 1988)
• "Portrait of Aleister Crowley" (paint on paper, 1988)
• "Golden Storm/Golden Tapestry" (paint on paper, 1988)
• "Fashion" (paint on foamcore, 1988)
• "Sight Unseen" (paint on illustration board, 1988)
• "Large H" (paint on paper, 1989)
• "Race Horse" (paint on paper, 1989)
• "Delta on the Golden River" (paint on paper, 1989)
• "Naked Angels II" (paint on foamcore, 1989)
• "Naked Angels IIa" (paint on foamcore, 1989)
• "Red Cyclops" (paint on illustration board, 1989)
• "Ancient Frescoes on Tin Tablet" (paint on illustration board, 1989)
• "Red Terra Cotta Figures" (paint on illustration board, 1989)
• "Clouds" (paint on illustration board, 1989)
• "Time to Retire, Get a Fish" (paint on paper, 1989)
• "Medicine Man with Familiar" (paint on illustration board 1989)
• "The Gold Bug" (paint on paper, 1989)
• William S. Burroughs and Keith Haring: Apocalypse
• List of Works
• Biography
• Exhibitions
• Bibliography