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Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun-Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground 1954-68
$23.50
By Anthony Elms, John Corbett, Terri Kapsalis, and Glenn Ligon
Chicago: WhiteWalls. 2007
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 9.4" x 6.5"
Cover: soft
Binding: perfect binding
Process: offset
Color: full color
Edition size: unknown
ISBN: 978-0945323105
This beautiful, richly-illustrated book catalogs an extraordinary exhibit on the early days of Sun-Ra and his time in Chicago. The show was particularly inspiring as it revealed the very hands-on way that Sun Ra crafted his aesthetic, right down to his business cards and the hand-cut stamps that were used for printing early album covers. Also included and reproduced here are original art by a variety of people, mock ups, sketches and notes that show a complex and emerging approach to music, art, philosophy and life.
From the back cover:
"This collection offers a kaleidoscopic array of artifacts from the earliest days of Sun Ra and his label, El Saturn Records. Most of these materials album designs, business cards, receipts, letterhead and more come from Ra's tenure in Chicago, especially during the mid-'50s when he and his business partner and fellow mystic Alton Abraham began constructing the mythology and public persona that was presented to a crossover audience later in the '60s in the form of Sun Ra's Myth-Science Arkestra"
Chicago: WhiteWalls. 2007
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 9.4" x 6.5"
Cover: soft
Binding: perfect binding
Process: offset
Color: full color
Edition size: unknown
ISBN: 978-0945323105
This beautiful, richly-illustrated book catalogs an extraordinary exhibit on the early days of Sun-Ra and his time in Chicago. The show was particularly inspiring as it revealed the very hands-on way that Sun Ra crafted his aesthetic, right down to his business cards and the hand-cut stamps that were used for printing early album covers. Also included and reproduced here are original art by a variety of people, mock ups, sketches and notes that show a complex and emerging approach to music, art, philosophy and life.
From the back cover:
"This collection offers a kaleidoscopic array of artifacts from the earliest days of Sun Ra and his label, El Saturn Records. Most of these materials album designs, business cards, receipts, letterhead and more come from Ra's tenure in Chicago, especially during the mid-'50s when he and his business partner and fellow mystic Alton Abraham began constructing the mythology and public persona that was presented to a crossover audience later in the '60s in the form of Sun Ra's Myth-Science Arkestra"
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