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Penny Slinger: An Exorcism: A Photo Romance

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Sultry and gothic, Slinger's legendary 1970s photomontage project returns to print with new photos and text from the artist

Penny Slinger is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work investigates the feminine, the magical and the erotic. While studying at Chelsea College of Art in the late 1960s, Slinger encountered Max Ernst's Une semaine de bonté (1934), initiating an enduring involvement with both the Surrealist movement and the medium of collage. In her first publication, 50% The Visible Woman (1971), Slinger explored the image of woman through a series of often provocative photomontage self-portraits and poetic texts. Such themes resonated keenly with the emerging feminist movement, and in 1973 Rolling Stone noted: "this book will become as important on your bookshelf as Sgt. Pepper's is on your record rack."
With An Exorcism: A Photo Romance, Slinger explores the feminine psyche further. Developed from a visit to Lilford Hall in 1970 with her then-partner, the filmmaker Peter Whitehead, Slinger provides us with a series of haunting images that chart a process of self-discovery and awakening that was described by Sheldon Williams as "a cascade of photo-collage imagery which has all the emergent trepidation of Hesse's Steppenwolf." First published in 1977 with a grant from Roland Penrose's Elephant Foundation, the original edition has been long out of print. This new edition from Fulgur Press has been expanded with new images from the original series held in the artist's archive and offers a previously unpublished narrative by Slinger that speaks to the personal and eternal themes of the book.
Penny Slinger (born 1947) works in a variety of mediums but is best known for her surrealist collage work exploring the nature of the female psyche. She has published three books of photo collage: 50% The Visible Woman, An Exorcism and Mountain Ecstasy. Her work is in many international museum collections, including Tate Britain.



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Slinger deftly distills a web of literary symbols into a cohesive expression of catharsis, one that is particular to her situation and ultimately rooted in the period and culture in which An Exorcism was first conceived. Today, the book stands as a testament to the psychological turmoil that many women experimenting with new media and performance in the 1960s and '70s experienced, when faced with the undue burden of navigating sexism and censorship on top of their art careers.--Jenny Wu "The Brooklyn Rail" But the work, done in Slinger's trademark photo collage style, one that seems kitschier now than it might have at the time, has only gained in relevance and power.--Cat Woods "Interview" Often naked, occasionally taking the form of a nun, lion, or butterfly, she transmuted the pain of identity and sexuality through art. The work is glamorous in an early definition of the word "glamour," meaning a magical spell.--Steffie Nelson "Los Angeles Review of Books"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781399963510
  • Publisher: Fulgur Limited
  • Publisher Imprint: Fulgur Limited
  • Height: 305 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 1338 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1399963511
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Photo Romance
  • Width: 229 mm


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