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The format for every two fold-out pages is a suite of printed images that consists of semi-realistic, line drawing outlines of the subject matter and two filled in black and white prints of the same image, one with positive, the other with negative reproductions. These are accompanied by poem in French and Flemish. The translator was Freddy De Vree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The title translates to "Cunt of Fairies." Topor painted faces onto color photographs of women with their legs spread apart to expose their genitalia. These were then rephotographed for the edition. Wilkipedia: Roland Topor (January 7, 1938 -- April 16, 1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril. Topor published several books of drawings, including Dessins panique (1965) Quatre roses pour Lucienne (1967) and Toporland (1975). Selections from Quatre roses pour Lucienne were reprinted in the English language collection Stories and Drawings (1967). His carefully detailed, realistic style, with elaborate crosshatching, emphasises the fantastic and macabre subject matter of the images. Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimerique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski...

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Color polaroid photographs depict Pazos as a transvestite Flamenco dancer. The bookbinding was designed by Freddie De Vree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Despite being a little over a year from publication of Labris, an important Belgian concrete poetry magazine, this issue does not have any concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.