Item #6742 East Village Eye July 1983 Lead Article on Surfing's New Era; Cookie Mueller; Mapplethorpe Photo. JOURNALISM - Alternative Press.
East Village Eye July 1983 Lead Article on Surfing's New Era; Cookie Mueller; Mapplethorpe Photo
East Village Eye July 1983 Lead Article on Surfing's New Era; Cookie Mueller; Mapplethorpe Photo
East Village Eye July 1983 Lead Article on Surfing's New Era; Cookie Mueller; Mapplethorpe Photo
East Village Eye July 1983 Lead Article on Surfing's New Era; Cookie Mueller; Mapplethorpe Photo

East Village Eye July 1983 Lead Article on Surfing's New Era; Cookie Mueller; Mapplethorpe Photo

New York City: East Village Eye, Inc., 1983. Robert Mapplethorpe, David Allen (cover art). First Printing. Tabloid Newspaper. Tabloid measuring 11.5 x 16,75 inches. Pp. 42, [1]. Front and rear covers printed in color. Slight age-toning and a couple short, closed tears. Very Good. Item #6742

The East Village Eye was founded in 1979 by Leonard Abrams, who served as editor-in-chief during its eight-year run. The stable of writers he cultivated was a tough, sophisticated rogues gallery of downtown scene-makers including Cookie Mueller, Patrick McMullan, James "The Hound" Marshall, Richard Hell, Andres Serrano, et al.

This particular issue resonates due to Cookie Mueller's column, "Ask Dr. Mueller" in which she addresses the nascent AIDS epidemic. Both Mueller and her husband Vittorio Scarpati succumbed to the disease in 1989. (Please see the excellent oral biography Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller (2014) edited by Chloe Griffin. In addition, James Marshall's column "The Real American Underground" features an early appearance of "grunge" as applied to music in his review of a Downliner Sect reissue. (In 1981 "grunge" was coined by Mark Arm, later of Mudhoney, in a letter to the Seattle fanzine Desperate Times). A solid issue of the Eye and a lively artifact from the later-No Wave scene, just prior to its disintegration compounded by dope and disease.

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Price: $50.00