DESTROY ALL MONSTERS / Geisha This (Multi-Signed by Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Niagara & Cary Loren)

Destroy All Monsters
Geisha This, 1997
Softcover with French flaps, 96 pages
28 x 22cm
Third edition of 2000
Book Beat Gallery, New York

Complete with the original bound-in flexi-disc; this copy signed by Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Niagara and Cary Loren.

Condition: Near Fine. The wrappers remain bright and clean, with only light shelf wear and a few minor rubs to the extremities. Binding is firm and the interior is clean throughout. Complete with the original bound-in flexi-disc, which appears unused. Signed by Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Niagara and Cary Loren in ink, with an additional inscription by Niagara. A remarkably well-preserved example of this increasingly scarce publication.

Published to accompany the 1995 Destroy All Monsters exhibition at Book Beat Gallery, Geisha This is the definitive document of one of the most influential artist collectives to emerge from the American underground. Formed in Detroit in the early 1970s by Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Cary Loren and Niagara, Destroy All Monsters dissolved the boundaries between visual art, experimental music, comics, performance and self-publishing, leaving a lasting impact on contemporary art and punk culture alike.

Designed by Cary Loren, the publication is a riotous archive of photographs, flyers, drawings, collages, correspondence and rare ephemera, tracing the group's evolution from art-school experiment to cult phenomenon. A flexi-disc featuring recordings by Destroy All Monsters is bound into the book, reinforcing its hybrid identity as both publication and artist's multiple.

This exceptional copy is signed by Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Niagara and Cary Loren, making it a particularly desirable example of one of the most important publications devoted to the collective. Increasingly scarce, Geisha This remains an essential document of Detroit's underground art scene and the fertile intersection of contemporary art, punk and DIY publishing.