Buenos Aires - Shop
Discovered this amazing newly opened Art/Furniture shop nearby the San Telmo Market– I can’t remember the name (it may not have one yet), but it was full of gems…
Among them the first (and only) two issues of the magazine Kitsch– they were pretty expensive, but they are also pretty rare, so I already regret passing on them..
I’ve only been able to find a little bit of info on the magazine itself (from someone on Flickr):
Kitsch 1
Published in Paris by Marie Concorde. Only two issues were published: no. 1 (Nov. 1970) and no. 2 (Feb. 1971) [no. 3 (May 1971) was announced but never published]
Created by Christian Bourgois, Romance Cieslewicz, Jacques Sternberg and Roland Topor
Watson call #: Bookcage NX456.5.K54 K5
Gift of Friends of the Thomas J. Watson Library, 2006.Tom Wesselmann’s cover art for Kitsch sets the tone of this publication’s provocative look at the intersection of art, sex, and bad taste. Robert Crumb, Roy Lichtenstein, and Egon Schiele were among the artists whose works were featured in Kitsch during its brief run.
A reproduction of Christian Schad’s Self Portrait (1927), currently on view in the Museum’s special exhibition Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s, appears in issue no. 2.
The owner was super nice– we were going through his prints. I can’t remember this artist, but clearly had an influence on Parra.
