OTTO GROSS AND THE THOUSAND-HEADED SPIRIT
Pocket Detonations No. 2
Pocket Detonations are small, collectible books that emerge alongside the larger translation and archival work at Bacchus Editions. Each volume follows a single thread in pursuit of the idea, instinct, image, or recurring question that first made us stop and pay attention to the featured individual.
The second Pocket Detonation could only have belonged to Otto Gross.
Physician and psychiatrist by training, anarchist, wanderer, patient, and exile, Otto Gross spent his life colliding with the institutions and authority that sought to classify, discipline, cure, and explain him. A year after his death, Viennese writer Anton Kuh inadvertently gave that adversary an unforgettable name: the thousand-headed spirit of authority. This little book follows Otto's lifelong confrontation with that spirit.
A century later, the thousand-headed spirit has proven remarkably adept at changing its language while preserving its habits. It remains busy diagnosing, classifying, collecting, correcting, and forever attempting to explain away those who insist upon belonging chiefly to themselves.
Written and put together by Otto Gross researcher, our own Fiona, its pages are populated by the visual language of Otto Gross's world, drawing upon German Expressionism, Symbolism, and related artistic movements through works by Alfred Kubin, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Walter Gramatté, Auguste Rodin, and others. Rare archival photographs, newly translated writings, and art weave together into a visual narrative assembled from Otto's own world.
OTTO GROSS AND THE THOUSAND-HEADED SPIRIT is the second volume in the growing Pocket Detonations series.
PUR-bound, 90 pages, cream French Paper interior pages... this is a gem!
Shipping begins July 14th.
OTTO GROSS AND THE THOUSAND-HEADED SPIRIT
Pocket Detonations No. 2
Pocket Detonations are small, collectible books that emerge alongside the larger translation and archival work at Bacchus Editions. Each volume follows a single thread in pursuit of the idea, instinct, image, or recurring question that first made us stop and pay attention to the featured individual.
The second Pocket Detonation could only have belonged to Otto Gross.
Physician and psychiatrist by training, anarchist, wanderer, patient, and exile, Otto Gross spent his life colliding with the institutions and authority that sought to classify, discipline, cure, and explain him. A year after his death, Viennese writer Anton Kuh inadvertently gave that adversary an unforgettable name: the thousand-headed spirit of authority. This little book follows Otto's lifelong confrontation with that spirit.
A century later, the thousand-headed spirit has proven remarkably adept at changing its language while preserving its habits. It remains busy diagnosing, classifying, collecting, correcting, and forever attempting to explain away those who insist upon belonging chiefly to themselves.
Written and put together by Otto Gross researcher, our own Fiona, its pages are populated by the visual language of Otto Gross's world, drawing upon German Expressionism, Symbolism, and related artistic movements through works by Alfred Kubin, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Walter Gramatté, Auguste Rodin, and others. Rare archival photographs, newly translated writings, and art weave together into a visual narrative assembled from Otto's own world.
OTTO GROSS AND THE THOUSAND-HEADED SPIRIT is the second volume in the growing Pocket Detonations series.
PUR-bound, 90 pages, cream French Paper interior pages... this is a gem!
Shipping begins July 14th.
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