Destroy All Monsters Magazine. Issue 5, January 1979 (with Color Xerox Insert) LOREN, Cary, Mike Kelley, Niagara, Jim Shaw, and Antonin Artaud Art

Special Edition. Quarto (38 pp.). Fifth of six numbers of this artist's magazine from the Destroy All Monsters collective; a "collage of visual obsessions" through which Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw developed their self-mythology. "We each approached the [copy] machine differently, but together we made it a ritual of transformation and chance encounter, sampling artifacts on the platen glass. Shaw s sociological Surrealism, Niagara s glam interventions, Kelley s defiant humor, and my own monster mythologies converged on the page. We passed around and shared piles of our art in a democratic manner. Ideas developed as we worked at the machine" (Cary Loren). This penultimate issue edited by one-time Jack Smith apprentice Loren according to cinematic themes "the Hollywood era of Erich von Stroheim; the decade of 1919-1929, magical Chinese and Japanese nouveau, and Ozish transformations" and dedicated to Antonin Artaud, reproducing an English translation of his treatise on the Theatre of Cruelty. One of an unknown number of special issues that featured early color xerox inserts from Loren using three variant processes, created over a months-long process in addition to two hand-stamps and a Wizard of Oz scarecrow sticker. A fine copy in stapled illustrated wrappers. Famously scarce.