{"product_id":"william-burroughs-s-time-bootleg","title":"William Burroughs’s “Time” [bootleg]","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn our recent artist’s book exhibition, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, we explored why William S. Burroughs’s novel continues to exert a peculiar magnetism over artists and bibliophiles alike.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1962, stung by a hostile review published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Burroughs responded not with a rebuttal but through an act of artistic détournement. Published by C Press, his altered version of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lay somewhere between an artist’s book and a political pamphlet: a fractured publication in which the logic of the cut-up method became a critical tool in its own right. Burroughs’s booklet was so radically iconoclastic that seven years later, British artist Roy Pennington issued an unauthorized second edition and distributed it at the Bickershaw Festival as an underground artifact and a performative gesture against media manipulation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscover more about the mystique surrounding Burroughs’s collectibles, and how the author himself found his way into the world of artist’s books, in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexhibition catalogue, available in our EXHIBITIONS section.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55364311449939,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4661.png?v=1791960605","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/william-burroughs-s-time-bootleg","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}