Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Barnett, Leonie Orton, writer of supplementary textual content.
Halliwell, Kenneth, artist.
Hoare, Philip, writer of introduction.
Orton, Joe, artist.
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| ISBN: | 0957609507
9780957609501
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| Notes: | "The defaced library books of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton"--Front cover.
Date of publication from publisher's website.
Met literatuuropgave.
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| Summary: | In 1962 John (Joe) Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, were charged with, "larceny, malicious damage and wilful damage," involving hundreds of books in the Islington Library's collection. Over the previous three years the pair had been stealing these books, removing thousands of illustrations and either using them to create alternative dust jackets for other books (which were then returned quietly to the library's shelves), or pasting them directly into a large collage spanning the interior walls of their flat. The reconfigured dust jackets were part of a decade of often shared creative endeavor. Malicious Damage looks closely at the collaged dust jackets still remaining within the archive at Islington Local History Centre and focuses on the early collaborative nature of Orton and Halliwell's relationship.
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