Crazy Spanish Girls [Muchachas Espanola Loca]

Tina L’Hotsky. New York: self-published, 1978. 9 x 11 ¾ in. Offset. Saddle stapled in pink photographic wraps. [28] pp. Signed on rear endpaper.

The most well-known and celebrated work from the Queen of the Mudd Club, Tina L’Hotsky, signed.

L’Hostky hosted themed parties at the Mudd Club throughout the late ‘70s; a writer, filmmaker, and, actress, she developed a collage-based art practice culminating in this work. Found text from vintage pulp novels, newspaper articles, poetry, an autopsy report, and a chess script, are positioned alongside found pin-up and sexploitation photos, rendering a remarkable document of No Wave New York. Works in this book include Patty Hearst in Her Cell, Hologram, B-Movie, and Dinasour Sisters - brief passages grappling with L’Hotsky’s interpretations of life, sex, and womanhood.

“A system of propaganda, combining pharmacology with literature, would be completely and infallibly effective.”

Light edge wear and small closed tear at spine; very good. Numbered 392 of an edition of 1000.