Boris Kerenski's "William Seward Burroughs: Das Messer im Kopf" (2025)

Ludwigsburg, Germany: KILLROY Media Verlag (book, signed), 2025.
11.75" x 8.25", stapled wraps, 63 pages, ISBN 978-3-931140-52-6.

William Seward Burroughs: Das Messer im Kopf, a monograph of Burroughs-centric collages by artist Boris Kerenski, published by KILLROY Media Verlag (Joachim Schönauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany) in 2025 in an edition of 500 copies. Edited by Birgit Mania. Image captures by Horst Alexy, Boris Kerenski, and Paul Kottmann. Layout and cover design by Frank Schaaf. Printed by WIRmachen DRUCK (Backnang).

This includes essays by Hadayatullah Hübsch, Jürgen Ploog, Hans Dieter Huber, and Axel Monte – in the German language – most on Burroughs, his writing, and the function of Cut-Ups.

This is inclosed by an envelope with a stamped image of Burroughs.

This copy is signed and dated by Boris Keresnki, and was acquired from him with the kind support of Gabriel Swossil.

Contents:

• Boris Kerenski:
• "just the right bullets I" (painting, 1997)
• "st. louis shag" (collage, 2024)
• "burroughs painting & gun" (collage, 2024)
• "schmutzig oder blue boys" (collage, 2020)
• "play!boy" (collage, 2024)
• "dreamachine" (collage, 2020)
• "dead city radio" (collage, 2024)
• "ride the lightning" (collage, 2024)
• "just the right bullets II" (painting, 1997)
• "ploog & co." (collage, 2024)
• "künstliche fliege IV – hommage an susanna kalner" (collage, 2024)
• "künstliche fliege III – hommage an mary beach" (collage, 2021)
• "entertainment for men: guns" (collage, 2024)
• "vow war in streets" (collage, 2017)
• "freischütz" (collage, 2024)
• "the ugly spirit II" (collage, 2024)
• "burroughs bullet" (collage, 2024)
• "glory glory II – hommage an stefan heuer" (collage, 2024)
• "deer hunter" (collage, 2024)
• "glory glory I" (collage, 2017)
• "die leeren eier von marcel duchamp" (collage, 2017)
• "cutting paper is cutting wood II" (collage, 2024)
• "destroy day!" (collage, 2024)
• "heureka" (collage, 2017)
• "b" (collage, 2024)
• "hämatorrhö" (collage, 2024)
• "das sprechende arschloch I" (collage, 2021)
• "das sprechende arschloch II" (collage, 2024)
• "widerstand" (collage, 2017)
• "just the right bullets III" (painting, 1997)
• "cut kontrolle" (collage, 2024)
• "band-salat" (collage, 2023)
• "bill von dämonen geplagt" (collage, 2024)
• "jack von bill und von dämonen geplagt" (collage, 2024)
• "name is" (collage, 2017)
• "bang bang baby" (collage, 2017)
• "tanger danger" (collage, 2017)
• "damn it" (collage, 2017)
• "danger beat" (collage, 2017)
• "marter am see" (collage, 2017)
• "akademie 23: life is a cut-up" (collage, 2021)
• "tanger – a lot of romance" (collage, 2024)
• "entertainment for men: tanger" (collage, 2024)
• "the first cut is the deepest" (collage, 2021)
• "klendathu" (collage, 2021)
• "the ugly spirit I" (collage, 2021)
• "cutting paper is cutting wood I" (collage, 2021)
• "street fightin' man" (painting, 1995)
• "m.y.o.wn b.usiness" (painting, 1997)
• Hadayatullah Hübsch: "Er wollte beweisen..." (essay)
• Jürgen Ploog: "Nichts hier jetzt als die Worte" (essay)
• Hans Dieter Huber: "Vom Cut-up zur Visual Music: Ästhetische Strategien der Analyse und Synthese Wirklichkeit" (essay):
• "Die Erfindung des Cut-up"
• "Die Permutation der Worte"
• "Sound Cut-ups"
• "Cut-up im Film"
• "Visual Music"
• "Synthese"
• Axel Monte: "Antonio de Nebrija: Unbekannter Conquistador eines alten Kontinents" (essay):
• "Das Bild"
• "Erster Perspektivwechsel"
• "Zweiter Perspektivenwechsel"
• "Das veränderte Bild"
• "Zur Montage"
• Biographies
• Literaturverzeichnis