“The liberating tale of a spirited beauty who proves to her politically correct boyfriend that an over-the-knee spanking is the surest way to turn her on. Fed up with having her lifelong spanking fetish ignored by her vanilla boyfriend, Karen throws a tantrum and marches out of the house with “Scene One” clutched to her bosom… Karen is stubborn, but Mitchell is determined to have the last word. She gets a bare-bottom spanking with hand and hair brush that proves to Karen that her lover has indeed become a spanking enthusiast.”

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If you’re trying to get a handle on what the Unarius Center is like, this is the tape that you want. Uriel guides us on a tour of the El Cajon facility where we see “prototypes of future electronic instrumentation and symbolic representations of life in higher dimensions” which “overwhelm the senses.” Among the sights to be seen on this tour are the star map, a representation of the star fleet landing, the tower of power, the cosmic generator and a model of the crystal mountain cities. It is in this tape that Uriel gives us the most frank explanation of what’s going on. Rooted in a strong respect for science (of this world and others), the ultimate goal is healing the past hurts (whether incurred in this life or a previous one). When all is said and done, there is nothing here that is not to like. These are sweet people offering a sense of community and a lot of hope for the future of everything. SA

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Hollerin’ is one of the most primitive forms of folk music. When folks in North Carolina and elsewhere had to communicate across great distances, such as multi-acre cornfields or swamps, they developed a way of singing/shouting that is a wonder to hear. This is how information was passed in a friendly, neighborly way. At times barbaric, other times like an angelic yodeling, this is wonderful, weird, touching music. This returns the listener back to a time before telephones and radios, when the chief sounds heard were human voices, hand tools and an occasional passing train. It’s like an audio time capsule from a lost America. Hollerin’ gathers together masters of this quickly vanishing folk-form in 24 mind-blowing tracks. Songs sung out of love of life, of work, of necessity. Startling sounds you never knew the human throat could make. Music in its purest form. CS

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“It is nearly 50 years since the publication of Hans Prinzhorn’s Bildnerei Der Geisteskranken (Artistry of the Mentally Ill). When the book first appeared it created a near sensation with its bold announcement that paintings and drawings executed by asylum inmates were to be treated with high seriousness and aesthetic analysis. It made strikingly original comparisons, for that time, between these works and the art objects made by children and so-called primitive peoples. However, most shocking to some readers in the early 1920s were the parallels to be seen in the art of mental patients and the revolutionary paintings and graphics that were then being widely exhibited by the artistic avant-garde of the day, the German Expressionists. Prinzhorn’s book has maintained a kind of timelessness in spite of advances in art scholarship and the relentless assimilation of the new in the gaudy parade of modern art. Artistry of the Mentally Ill remains an extraordinary document from the history of psychiatry and aesthetics. In a most sensitive and dignified manner it celebrates the humanity, the resourcefulness and the creativity of some of our wretched, anguished brothers, whom society is even now too willing to ignore or discard.” Includes 187 illustrations from the author’s collections, many in color.

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Paperback: 274 pages
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“Culture has carried things so far that the public feels one must become an imposter in order to create a piece of art.” Dubuffet reacted by staging shows of what he termed Art Brut (raw art). “Among the most interesting worlds we have seen, certain were done by people considered to be mentally ill and interned in psychiatric asylums… consequently, we mean to consider in the same light the works of all people, whether they are judged to be healthy or sick, and without making special categories.”

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Hardback: 118 pages
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“John MacGregor draws upon his dual training in art history and in psychiatry and psychoanalysis to describe… the significant influence of the art of the mentally ill on the development of modern art as a whole. His detailed narrative, with its strangely beautiful illustrations, introduces us to a fascinating group of people that includes the psychotic artists, both trained and untrained, and the psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, critics and art historians who encountered their work.
“After discussing the situation of the mentally ill in the 1700s and the later Romantic obsession with the insane as visionary heroes, MacGregor explores the process of discovery of psychotic art in the latter half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. In separate chapters he then relates this discovery to later developments—German Expressionism and the Nazis’ purge of ‘degenerate’ art and artists; Surrealism; and Jean Dubuffet and l’Art Brut.”

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Paperback: 416 pages
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A homemade scrapbook of writings and paintings by America’s Golden Arches of folk art: over 10,000 paintings sold! Reverend Finster got the call to preach when he was 13. “I was afraid, and said, ‘Lord I don’t have the education. I don’t even have any good clothes. Lord please let me go.”’ The Lord didn’t, and Finster pastored 10 Southern Baptist churches in a 45-year period. Then he was called to build his Paradise Garden. “I got the idea of that at the county dump… I saw beautiful things people threw away… like a pocketbook full of jewelry and nice gold watches. I started collecting them up… a Hula Hoop, ball equipment, dental tools… I said these things needed to be displayed… You hardly ever see a button spinner or wooden sack nails anymore… These things are previews of things we have now. That’s what the old Bible is… a preview… And the New Testament is a preview of what’s to come.” Finster’s prolific witness-the-Lord folk style has made him world famous. “I’m in a human body, and I’m existing on this planet, but I’m living in another world, and that world don’t have nothing to do with famous.” Includes a 1950 interview and color photos. GR

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Paperback: 128 pages
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A compilation inspired by Jean Dubuffet which is most interesting for its writings (especially in translation) of such significant Art Brut figures as Adolph Wölfli and Henry Darger. Compiled from archives like the Prinzhorn Collection and the Collection de l’Art Brut. SS

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Paperback: 256 pages

Adolf Wölfli was a schizophrenic Swiss peasant institutionalized from the age of 31 until his death in 1930 after an episode in which he attempted to molest a 3-and-a-half-year-old girl. While incarcerated in Waldau Hospital, Wölfli was supplied with colored pencils and paper by his doctor, Walter Morgenthaler. This led to Wölfli’s prodigious output of interrelated drawings, writing, musical compositions and collages, which has made him the most acclaimed and studied example of Art Brut. Madness and Art is a combination psychiatric case study and artistic monograph written by Morgenthaler, and is the first book to appear on the subject of the art of the mentally ill (it was published in 1921, one year before Prinzhorn’s landmark work). Morgenthaler also allows Wölfli to speak for himself throughout the book by including Wölfli’s own “A Short Life Story” and extended excerpts of his distinctive prose. SS

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Hardback: 176 pages
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“Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage is the life’s work of 86-year-old reclusive artist Malcolm McKesson, who has been secretly writing and illustrating this semiautobiographical erotic novel for the past 30 years. Matriarchy follows the extraordinary transformation of a young man abducted into willing submission as a servant to a stern mistress who teaches him to ‘curb his manly nature.’ The protagonist learns to take on the roles of daughter, page-boy and husband, each with appropriate costume. With its intense and atmospheric line drawings and evocative descriptions of exotic costumes, rituals and bondage devices, Matriarchy reveals an inner mythology created in ecstatic seclusion, a subversive world of courtly eroticism. McKesson’s art is in the collection of the American Visionary Art Museum and the Collection de l’Art Brut, in Switzerland.”

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Paperback: 208 pages
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