Ballard et sur l'influence de son oeuvre dans l'art contemporain, comprenant notamment des reproductions de pulps des années 1920 aux revues expérimentales des années 1960-1970.Imprimée en diverses bichromies successives, Atrocity Exhibition Archive Paradoxe - Déambulations dans La Foire aux atrocités est une publication conçue à la manière d'un guide pour La Foire aux atrocités, roman publié en 1969 dans lequel James Graham Ballard déploie un espace singulier où se juxtaposent une ' aire de béton ', un ' hall d'exposition ', un ' tableau-sculpture ', une ' rue de Saïgon ', etc. Un projet curatorial / éditorial spectaculaire, à la croisée des sciences humaines et de la science-fiction, de l'histoire de l'art et de la médecine, qui propose une réflexion sur l'esthétique (littéraire et visuelle) de J. Ballard said 'it was an attempt for me to make sense of that tragic event.Paperback. With titles such as 'Plans for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy', 'Love and Napalm: Export USA', and ' Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan', and by constantly associating the Kennedy assassination with a sexual or sporting event, the work has maintained controversy, especially in the United States, where some considered it a slur on John F. There is some debate on whether the book is an experimental novel with chapters or a collection of linked stories. The edition with annotations is now standard.Īll of the 1970 book originally appeared as stories in magazines before being collected. Ī revised large format paperback edition, with annotations by the author and illustrations by Phoebe Gloeckner, was issued by RE/Search in 1990.

It was made into a film by Jonathan Weiss in 1998. Thus, the first US edition was published in 1972 by Grove Press under the title Love and Napalm: Export USA.

personally cancelled the publication and had the copies destroyed, fearing legal action from some of the celebrities depicted in the book. After a 1970 edition by Doubleday & Company had already been printed, Nelson Doubleday Jr.

The book was originally published in the UK in 1970 by Jonathan Cape.

The atrocity exhibition book