{"id":34706,"date":"2019-04-06T12:43:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=34706"},"modified":"2019-04-06T12:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T16:51:56","slug":"flesh-film-a-book-as-artists-fever-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/04\/flesh-film-a-book-as-artists-fever-dream.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Flesh Film&#8217;: A Book as Artist&#8217;s Fever Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When a book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/12\/reality-as-a-metaphysical-construct.html\">reads like an hallucination<\/a> and looks as magnificent as\u00a0<em>Flesh Film<\/em>, it&#8217;s an artist&#8217;s book as much as a writer&#8217;s. The designer Robert Schalinski has given the author&#8217;s text the appearance of a manuscript duplicated on an old copying machine and punctuated it with the author&#8217;s visual collages. It&#8217;s gorgeous stuff, published in English by the German publisher Moloko Print, and it&#8217;s available for the first time in the U.S. from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printedmatter.org\/catalog\/52889\/\">printedmatter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"757\" data-attachment-id=\"34705\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/flesh-film-available-at-printedmatter-org-640\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FLESH-FILM-available-at-printedmatter.org-640.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,757\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;Flesh Film&amp;#8217; by J\u00fcrgen Ploog, published by Moloko, is available at printedmatter.org\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FLESH-FILM-available-at-printedmatter.org-640-254x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FLESH-FILM-available-at-printedmatter.org-640.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FLESH-FILM-available-at-printedmatter.org-640.jpg\" alt=\"'Flesh Film' by J\u00fcrgen Ploog, published by Moloko, is available at printedmatter.org.\" class=\"wp-image-34705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FLESH-FILM-available-at-printedmatter.org-640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FLESH-FILM-available-at-printedmatter.org-640-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.printedmatter.org\/catalog\/52889\/\">See details of &#8216;Flesh Film&#8217; in the printedmatter.org catalogue.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a book reads like an hallucination and looks as magnificent as Flesh Film, it&#8217;s an artist&#8217;s book as much as a writer&#8217;s. The designer Robert Schalinski has given the author&#8217;s text the appearance of a manuscript duplicated on an old copying machine and punctuated it with the author&#8217;s visual collages. It&#8217;s gorgeous stuff, published in English by the German publisher Moloko Print, and it&#8217;s available for the first time in the U.S. from printedmatter.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FLESH-FILM-available-at-printedmatter.org-640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-91M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34706"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34721,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34706\/revisions\/34721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}