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Malicious damage

Title: Malicious damage / Ilsa Colsell.
Author: Colsell, Ilsa.
Publication: London : Donlon Books, [2013]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Orton ZA2 M35 2013	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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183, [5] pages : color illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

In 1962 John (Joe) Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, were charged with, "larceny, malicious damage and wilful damage," involving hundreds of books in the Islington Library's collection. Over the previous three years the pair had been stealing these books, removing thousands of illustrations and either using them to create alternative dust jackets for other books (which were then returned quietly to the library's shelves), or pasting them directly into a large collage spanning the interior walls of their flat. The reconfigured dust jackets were part of a decade of often shared creative endeavor. Malicious Damage looks closely at the collaged dust jackets still remaining within the archive at Islington Local History Centre and focuses on the early collaborative nature of Orton and Halliwell's relationship.

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Note

"The defaced library books of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton"--Front cover.
Date of publication from publisher's website.

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Restricted access;

Contents

Foreword / Leonie Orton Barnett -- Introduction / Philip Hoare -- Malicious damage / Ilsa Colsell -- Collaged library books -- Annotations -- The middle of the bed -- Collages by Kenneth Halliwell.

Call Number

Berg Coll Orton ZA2 M35 2013

ISBN

0957609507
9780957609501

OCLC

864430589

Author

Colsell, Ilsa.

Title

Malicious damage / Ilsa Colsell.

Publisher

London : Donlon Books, [2013]

Local Note

Berg Collection copy donated by Mark Storey.

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Barnett, Leonie Orton. Contributor

Halliwell, Kenneth, artist.

Hoare, Philip, writer of introduction.

Orton, Joe, artist.

Storey, Mark. Donor

Storey, Mark. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Orton ZA2 M35 2013

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