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William E. Jones The third
release in a series of books by William E. Jones, Heliogabalus
pays tribute to the most decadent Roman Emperor. Who was this creature
who called himself Elagabalus, after El Gabal, god of the sun? What to
make of his addiction to luxury, his overbearing mother, his controversial
genitals? Enlightening texts can be found in the latest 2nd Cannons publication.
The book features accounts of Heliogabalus by Edward Gibbon, Herodian,
Cassius Dio, and the spurious Aelius Lampridius. It also contains a contemporary
text, “This Necrophilic Strategy Entails Some Risk,” a collaboration
by Bruce Hainley and William E. Jones, previously published only in expurgated
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| Selections from the Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton William E. Jones Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton telescopes 350 years, the period from the 1620s to the 1970s. It is what artist William E. Jones imagined Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy would have looked like had it appeared in the pages of Drummer magazine. In preparing the book, Jones condensed Burton’s vast 450,000-word masterpiece of 17th Century English literature to a small fraction of its length, and paired the excerpts with vintage images of leather men at work and play. Robert Burton was fascinated by the variations of human sexuality, albeit more as an observer than as a participant. He wrote about sex in covert Latin passages that are newly translated in Jones’s book. Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton is a delightfully perverse condensation of Burton’s speculations on the sexual proclivities that subsequent generations of gay men put into exuberant practice. www.williamejones.com |
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William E. Jones Tearoom
is a companion piece to Jones’s video of the same name. A work of
appropriation, the video Tearoom is a police surveillance film
– presented virtually unaltered – of men having sex in a public
rest room in Mansfield, Ohio during a three week period in the summer
of 1962. This film, used as evidence in court, led to the conviction of
over 30 men on charges of sodomy, which at that time carried a minimum
sentence of one year in the state penitentiary.
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William E. Jones Based upon an exhibition and a documentary of the same title, Is It Really So Strange? by William E. Jones documents the fan culture around The Smiths and Morrissey in Southern California. The book includes 60 black and white photographs of the fan scene, color stills from the movie, an extensive essay on contemporary Morrissey fans by Jones, and a preface by curator Bill Horrigan. Published by David Kordansky Gallery and designed by Brian Roettinger. www.williamejones.com |
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