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Abolafia's Luv : foremost in the field he began.

Title
Abolafia's Luv : foremost in the field he began.
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New York : Luv Duv Prod., Inc., [1968]

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Abolafia, Louis.
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  • Two [?] issues published.
  • A New York City pornographic tabloid published and edited by Louis Abolafia, featuring articles and short stories about sex, and alleged personal accounts of sexual exploits; advertisements revealing the Manhattan counterculture sex scene; and numerous photographs of naked young women. The publication distinguished itself from other pornographic serials in its attempts to present itself as a counterculture instrument of sexual and emotional liberation, and in its association with avant-garde figures.
  • Louis Abolafia (b.1941, Manhattan, N.Y.) was an artist and counterculture celebrity who ran for President of the United States under the Nudist Party banner "on the Hippie 'Love Ticket' various times in the 1960s and onward. He ran against Richard Nixon in 1968 as the naked Hippie 'love candidate' with the slogan: 'What Have I Got To Hide?' Abolafia had previously run in 1968 under the Cosmic Love Party, even then with the slogan 'What have I got to hide?' The son of a New York City florist, Abolafia coined the phrase, 'Make love, not war!' and was part of the Greenwich Village art scene in the 1960s. In this capacity, he organized 'love-ins' and 'happenings' that combined music, poetry and audience participation, inspiring the New York press to crown him 'The Love King.' [...] Abolafia inspired the creation of the Exotic Erotic Ball in 1979 in San Francisco, which was held annually for more than three decades until it was canceled in 2010." -- From Wikipedia.
  • Abolafia died in Los Angeles on October 30, 1995, apparently of a drug overdose.
  • Issue no. 1 with double page black-and-white photograph ("Poster of the Week") of Abolafia with three topless women: playing the cello, Madeline Charlotte Moorman Garside (November 18, 1933–November 8, 1991), a mixed-media performance artist; Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), the editor and designer of the counterculture "zine" Kusama Presents, also known as Kusama's Orgy; and the artist Carolee Schneeman.
  • Garside, here identified and better known as Chalotte Moorman, had successfully launched a classical, concert hall career when, in 1963, she established New York's annual Avant Garde Festival. It would be produced in a variety of venues, including Central Park and the Staten Island Ferry, until 1980 (excepting the years 1970, 1976, and 1979). Garside's partner was the Korean avant-garde artist and musician Nam Jume Paik. In 1967, Moorman performed Paik's Opera Sextronique topless, which resulted in her arrest. The incident made her famous as the "topless cellist." She was active in the avant-garde Fluxus movement and a friend and colleague of many well-known avant-garde artists, including Wolf Vostel, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Byrd, Yoko Ono, and Carolee Schneeman.
  • "Carolee Schneemann (b. October 12, 1939 in Fox Chase, Pennsylvania) is an American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois. Her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the individual in relationship to social bodies. Her works have been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the New York Museum of Modern Art, and the London National Film Theatre. Schneemann has taught at several universities, including the California Institute of the Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hunter College, and Rutgers University, where she was the first female art professor hired. Additionally, she has published widely, producing works such as Cézanne, She Was a Great Painter (1976) and More than Meat Joy: Performance Works and Selected Writings (1997)."--From Wikipedia.
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Call Number
Berg Coll+++ Counterculture A26 1968
OCLC
837425157
Title
Abolafia's Luv : foremost in the field he began.
Imprint
New York : Luv Duv Prod., Inc., [1968]
Local Note
Berg Collection has two issues, possibly all that were published, vol. 1, nos. 1 and 2 [1968].
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Abolafia, Louis. Editor
Research Call Number
Berg Coll+++ Counterculture A26 1968
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