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Add MS 89203/2/11/15
- Record Id:
- 040-003392089
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003345873
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100053677003.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89203/2/11/15
- Title:
- Will Self: Posters (How the Dead Live and Dorian)
- Scope & Content:
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Three promotional posters:
(1). Penguin/Viking poster promoting the novel Dorian (2002). Features a quotation from J. G. Ballard: 'One of those rare writers whose imaginations change the way we see the world'.
(2) and (3). Two copies of a double-sided poster (Penguin):
- Side 1. How the Dead Live (2000). 'The new bestseller'. Features photograph of a shark in a tank (i.e. Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living).
- Side 2. General promotion of paperback editions of six books, showing covers of each: The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Cock and Bull, My Idea of Fun, Grey Area, Great Apes, and Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys. Features the same quotation from Ballard used in poster (1) above for Dorian. The upper portion of the poster is a black and white portrait of Self (high contrast, street setting, Union Square Manhattan) by Victoria Straub (2001).
A (less high contrast) print of the portrait by Straub can be found, along with other portraits of Self by the same photographer, in Add MS 89203/2/11/7.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003345873
033-003357982
036-003377825
040-003392089 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89203 : The Papers of Will Self
Add MS 89203/2 : Will Self: Personal and Literary Papers
Add MS 89203/2/11 : Will Self: Publicity Material and Photographic Portraits
Add MS 89203/2/11/15 : Will Self: Posters (How the Dead Live and Dorian) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003345873[0002]/033-003357982[0014]/036-003377825[0015]/040-003392089
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89203
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 2002
- End Date:
- 2002
- Date Range:
- 2002
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Vertical format: each poster 1530 x 510 mm.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)