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Shaw, Jim. Hollywood, CA: Heavy Industry Publications, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine. 208pp, 106 color illustrations. Leave it to an iconoclastic artist like Jim Shaw to quietly amass this extraordinary collection of paintings one would be unlikely to find hanging in any museum. He dispenses with the pretension of academic texts and just shows us the work. With titles such as "Man with No Crotch Sits Down with Girl" and "Indian Maidens Frolic in Bikinis", these pictures require no reductive essays or curatorial largesse - they speak for themselves and the artists who created them. A handsome example of the 1990 first paperbound printing of this fascinating tome issued by Ed Ruscha's Heavy Industry Publications additionally BOLDLY SIGNED " Jim Shaw" in blue ink on the front free endpaper. PLEASE NOTE: 1-879158-00-0 Inventory Number: 024384