"Scars" 1972 POLK, Brigid
$750
POLK, Brigid
[78] pp.
Telegraph Books
1972
First Edition
7 1/4" x 4 3/4"
Fine
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"Scars" contains a selection from Warhol superstar Brigid Polk' collection of ink prints she made of celebrities and her friends' scars, reproduced in holograph facsimile with accompanying explanations of the wounds by those who'd been scarred. Contributors include, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, John Giorno, Bill Berkson, Brice Marden, Helio Oiticica (his entry is the scar from a knife wound received during a quarrel in one of Rio De Janeiro's "favelas") and many others.
Brigid Berlin persuaded friends and visitors to Andy Warhol's studio, to make ink imprints of their scars from their various body parts and then write the story of how the scar was obtained alongside the ink impression. The original "scars" were created on blank pages in one of Berlin's notebooks and this collection was published in 1972 by Telegraph Books under the title Scars by Brigid Polk. The scars book contains notable subjects including Peter Fonda, Viva, Taylor Mead, Patti Smith, Gerard Malanga, Brice Marden, Geneviève Waïte, Larry Rivers, John Giorno, Rene Ricard, Peter Beard, Lillian Roxon, and Bill Berkson.