Exhibition Catalogue for "William S. Burroughs: Creative Observer" (2014)

Lawrence, Kansas, US: Lawrence Arts Center and William S. Burroughs Communications (book, exhibition catalogue), 2014.

8.5" x 11" x 0.25", 80 pages, softcover with mirrored covers, ISBN 978-0-615-94866-9.

William S. Burroughs: Creative Observer, a catalogue for the exhibition occurring 17 January through 2 March 2014, at the Lawrence Arts Center (Lawrence, Kansas, US). This was curated by Ben Ahlvers and Yuri Zupancic, with the catalog edited by Tom King and Yuri Zupancic. Art directed and designed by Chris Ralston. Photography of artwork by Jeremy Rockwell with photographs of William S. Burroughs by Jonathan Blumb and Philip Heying. Consulting editor was J. Jaeger.

This contains essays from Ben Ahlvers, William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, Yuri Zupancic, Tom Peschio, Philip Heying, David Ohle, Karl Gridley, Roger Holden, and Jim McCrary. Photographs by Philip Heying, Jonathan Blumb, with an additional visual contribution by Wayne Propst. Over fifty Burroughs artworks are represented in the catalogue.

The covers of this catalogue are a highly mirrored paper.

This copy was acquired from the collection of Supervert (New York City).

Schottlaender v4.B31.

Contents:

• Ben Ahlvers: "Mirror" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs:
• "The Creative Observer" (essay from Painting and Guns)
• "Garage Doors" (painting, 1989)
• "Untitled stencil" (cardboard stencil)
• "Wood Spirits" (painting/collage, 1987)
• "Untitled" (painting/collage, 1990)
• "LA Riots" (painting, 1992)
• "Spatula" (painting tool)
• "Untitled stencil" (melted toy gun)
• "Prisoner's Song" (painting, 1990)
• "The Melting Red Disease" (painting, 1988)
• "The Star-Spangled Banner" (painting/collage, 1987)
• "Portrait of John Wheeler" (painting/collage, 1992)
• "Cigars... Cigarettes" (painting, 1992)
• "For the Angel of Death Spread His Wings" (painting, 1993)
• "Boot Hill" (painting, 1993)
• "Subway turnstiles, stairs, cat walks to infinity..." (painting, 1990)
• "Unworkable Machine" (painting, 1993)
• "Room for One More Inside, Sir" (painting, 1990)
• "Untitled" (painting, 1990)
• "Root Face" (painting, 1987)
• "City of Light and City of Darkness" (painting, 1989)
• "Death Defying Highwire Act" (painting, 1988)
• "The Red Lands" (painting, 1987)
• "Ron the Actor Plays the UGLY American..." (painting/collage, 1988)
• "...Of the Mary Celeste" (painting/collage, 1988)
• "The Western Lands" (painting, 1982)
• "The Road to Last Chance" (painting, 1988)
• "Space Door" (painting on door, 1987)
• "Gulag" (painting, 1992)
• "Man with a Hat" (painting, 1992)
• "Escape from the Centipede Troughs" (painting/collage, 1982)
• "Untitled" (drawing, 1992)
• "Andy Warhol, a Portrait in TV dots..." (painting, 1992)
• "Untitled" (painting, 1989)
• "Untitled (cat head)" (painting, 1988)
• "Great White Eater Getting Set for a Feeding Frenzy" (painting/collage, 1993)
• "Untitled Triptych" (painting, 1993)
• "Entrance to the Place of the Green Deer" (painting, 1988)
• "'45 Writings" (painting, 1993)
• "Thick Pages #8" (painting, 1990)
• "Christ in Gunpowder" (gunpowder burn on plywood, 1987)
• "Behind the Behind Scenes" (painting/collage, 1988)
• "Tio Mate, the Old Pistolero" (painting, 1989)
• "Nuclear Accident" (painting, 1989)
• "Self Portrait" (painting, 1990)
• "The Pink Baboon" (painting, 1989)
• "A Face at Your Window..." (painting, 1988)
• "untitled (No Tresspassing)" (painting, 1988)
• "Untitled" (painting, 1990)
• "Burning Bullets" (painting, 1987)
• "Frightened Stick Peoples (is also dirty)" (painting/collage, 1993)
• Robert Rauschenberg and William S. Burroughs: "The sky is thin as paper here" (print, 1981)
• John Giorno and William S. Burroughs: "That Gun's Got Blood in its Hole" (painting/print, 1991)
• Roger Holden and William S. Burroughs: "Reindeer" (print)
• Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs: "The Magic Circle" (drawing, 1989)
• Ralph Steadman and William S. Burroughs: "Something New Has Been Added" (print, 1995)
• James Grauerholz: "On Burroughs' Art" (essay from the Casa Sin Nombre catalogue)
• Yuri Zupancic: "Observation = creation" (essay)
• Tom Peschio: "You Just Had to Look" (essay)
• Philip Heying:
• "'Do You See It?'" (essay)
• photographs
• David Ohle: "The Stendhal Effect" (essay, from Mutate or Die: With Burroughs in Kansas, 2007)
• Karl Gridley: "Shooting Up and Painting Doors" (essay)
• Roger Holden: "Ports of Entry and Departure" (essay, reprinted from RealityStudio)
• Jim McCrary: "Me and WSB" (essay)
• Keith Haring and William S. Burroughs: "from Apocalypse" (silkscreens)
• Udo Breger and William S. Burroughs: "B.U.D. Collaboration with Udo Breger" (inscribed print [see here for an example in the archive])
• Exhibition History
• Wayne Propst: "Essay" (artwork)
• Jonathan Blumb: photographs