• Illustrations Looking for a Story / Norman Shapiro
Illustrations Looking for a Story / Norman Shapiro Illustrations Looking for a Story / Norman Shapiro Illustrations Looking for a Story / Norman Shapiro

Illustrations Looking for a Story / Norman Shapiro

Pamphlet bindings

FA.B26.0416
Fine Art Collection
28.5 x 22.2 cm
1990
Norman Shapiro
Euphemisms Publishing Company
Brightwaters
artists' books, computer art, pornography
Number 1 of an Edition of 5, signed by the artist on illustrated title page. White plastic slide binder and heavyweight, black paper folded cover; interior tan acetate endpapers. "This is a book containing a set of drawings made on a computer tablet. Working with a stylus and using PBRUSH tools, I generated a succession of images from a single drawing without having to redraw or trace my original. Resulting from this, I thought that at least one of the narrative variations of this set should go with it. In time more drawings may yet evolve, and new narratives...[sic] /Norman Shapiro 12/25/89".--[p.3] Book consists of a sequential, storyboard layout style of computer generated, sexually explicit illustrations. Pages are double sided, with images on verso, and vertical stripes on each recto. This is followed by a nine page, illustrated homoerotic tale, "A Story Written for Illustrations".