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The Lustful Turk
Anonymous
London: Star, 1985.Star pulp edition of the 19th century exploitation erotic novel.
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Food Supply and Preparation
Department of Community Services
Brisbane: Department of Community Services, 1985.A booklet on Aboriginal food practices, primarily based on Walter Roth’s North Queensland Ethnography No. 3.
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Gateavisa Nr. 112, December 1985
Gateavisa
Oslo: Futrum Forlag, 1985.Single issue of Norwegian anarchist and counterculture newspaper Gateavisa. First published in 1970 and through various forms and publishing schedules still being produced today. With an anti-authoritarian focus Gateavisa covered a wide range of topics, from occultism and mysticism to politics and philosophy, and of course underground comics. Gateavisa often featured stories on sex and drugs, and was an early supporter in an otherwise conservative Norway of LGBTQ rights and the legalisation of cannabis. Other regular columns ran on squatting, police violence, prisons, organic farming, pirate radios, punk, and more. This issue with a cover story on psychedelic experiences in traditional cultures.
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SME Mineral Processing Handbook (2 Volumes)
Norman L. Weiss
New York: Society of Mining Engineers of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1985. -
Pleasure of the Gaze: Image and Appearance in Recent Australian Art
Bruce Adams
Perth: The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1985.Exhibition catalogue. Full list of artists: Julie Brown-Rrap, Peter Callas, Richard Dunn, Merilyn Fairskye, Marinka Kordis, Maria Kozic, Lindy Lee, John Lethbridge, Akio Makigawa, Sue Paull, Stieg Persson, Robert Randall, Frank Bendinelli, Carol Rudyard, Peter Tyndall, Vicki Varvaressos, and John R. Walker. Essays by Adrian Martin, Eaghan Morris, and Peter Callas. Curated by Bruce Adams.
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Gay and Sober: Directions for Counseling and Therapy
Thomas O. Ziebold; John E. Mongeon
New York: Harrington Park Press, 1985. -
Bibliotheque Carlo de Poortere: Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Rodenbach
Carlo de Poortere
Liege: Vaillant – Carmanne, 1985.Carlo de Poortere (1917 – 2002), son of Belgian carpet manufacturer Louis de Poortere and later co-manager of the family business, was a bibliophile and collector. His library included fine 17th and 18th century bindings, and other works from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. He also collected manuscripts and memorabilia, and it is those that this book documents, by Emile Verhaeren (Belgian Symbolist author, 1855 – 1916, Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian poet and playwright, 1862 – 1949), and Georges Rodenbach (Belgian Symbolist writer and poet, 1855 – 1898). Produced in a limited edition of 350 copies, numbers 1 – 50 printed on Deluxe watermarked Ingres Van Gelder paper; this being one of the deluxe edition, being number 36.
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Crocodile Tears
Douglas Huebler
Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery and CEPA Gallery, 1985.Brief fictions re-sounding from the proposal in Variable Piece #70: 1971 to photographically document the existence of everyone alive. Photographs of American conceptual artist Douglas Heubler’s Variable Piece #70, and found forgeries of works by Van Gogh, Matisse, and Degas, illustrating a disjointed screenplay. A reflection on the dark side of the art market.
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Hana nareba: Razo / [If It Becomes a Flower: Naked Statue]
Shoji Otake
Tokyo: Nihon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1985.Portfolio of eight nude photographs by Japanese photographer Shoji Otake (1920-2015).
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Women At Work ’85
Glen Betz
Townsville: Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, 1985.Catalogue for an exhibition, ‘An Image of Herself’ and performance ‘Music and Me’. The third Women at Work exhibition at Perc Tucker. Full list of artists; Maria Rita Barbagallo, Ranna Hale, Anne M. Lord, Barbara Pierce, Anneke Silver, Judy Watson, Jane Wheatley, Margaret Wilson, and Grace Cochrane. Together with a list of watercolours by Harriet Jan Jeville-Rolfe from the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery.
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Playback
Raymond Chandler
London: Harrap, 1985. -
The Alternative Way of Life: The First International Conference on Communal Living (Communes and Kibbutzim), Israel, 1981
Yehudit Agasi; Yoel Darom
Norwood: Kibbutz Studies Book Series, Norwood Editions, 1985.Kibbutz, Communal Society, and Alternative Social Policy Series Volume IX.
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Eight Days A Week
Larry Duplechan
Boston: Alyson, 1985.Interracial gay novel by an African-American author.