Visual Vinyl (2017)

Dortmund, Germany: Verlag Kettler (book, exhibition catalogue), 2017.
8.875" x 8.875" x 1", 232 pages, hardcover in pictorial boards, ISBN 978-3-86206-579-0.

Visual Vinyl, a book of albums with artist-designed covers from the collection of Jan van Toorn, in response to the exhibition at SCHUNK* (Heerlen, Netherlands) between 28 November 2015 and 6 March 2016. The authors are Danny Brassé, Lene ter Haar, Cynthia Jordens, Sascha Krüger, Harry Prenger, and Jan van Toorn, with translations by UvA Talen, Sytze Steenstra, Aymone Rassaerts, and Stefan Hollstein. Edited by SCHUNK* and published by Verlag Kettler (Dortmund, Germany). Proofreading by Aymone Rassaerts and Stefan Hollstein. Photography by Bert Janssen. Design by Dusan Totovic and Werner Wernicke. Lithography by Roland Kuepper. 

This includes the covers of Call Me Burroughs, Nothing Here Now but the Recordings, The ‘Priest’ They Called Him (with Kurt Cobain), a copy of Dead City Radio signed to Nelson Lyon by Timothy Leary and Burroughs, and Ministry's Just One Fix 12".

A discography including Burroughs' works is in the back of the book.

Thanks to Walter Rovere for bringing this item to my attention.

Contents: 

• Harry Prenger: introduction:
• "Pop Music and Art"
• "Vinyl and Performance Art"
• "The LP as an Autonomous Object"
• "Artist Covers"
• Sascha Krüger and Raymond Pettibon: "The Do-it-Yourself Ethic Is a Myth" (interview)
• "Artist Records"
• "Spoke Word & Sound Poetry"
• Lene ter Haar and Jan van Toorn: "Meeting the Collector" (interview)
• Jan van Toorn: "The Visual Vinyl Discography": 
• "Part 1: Individual Artists"
• "Part 2: Various Artists Compilation Albums"