Radar, Issue 4 ("Special Issue Victor Bockris"), 1984

This issue is titled “Special Issue Victor Bockris”, and contains multiple items by and from Victor Bockris, including a section of photographs, including images of William S. Burroughs at pages 72 through 75.

This issue also contains images and references to Burroughs in multiple advertisements.

This issue also contains a proper 10” x 8” GSP matte photograph by Victor Bockris of William S. Burroughs, stamped on verso with the “Edition C.L.A.G.” stamp.

Published in Basel, Switzerland by Edition C.L.A.G. in 1984.

This copy is inscribed with a small drawing by Victor Bockris to friend Frederic Vigneron: “To Frederic Vigneron, with pleasant memories of many evenings spent in therapeutic discussion of the great mysteries of life./ With best wishes / Love / Victor Bockris / N.Y.C. / April 21st / 1985. This copy was acquired from Atlantic Bookshop (Brooklyn, New York City, US).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 19840000RADA.0.4

Selected Contents:

• Gerard Malanga: photographs
• Michael Barfuss: photographs
• Victor Bockris [and Andrew Wylie, as Bockris-Wylie]:
• "From 'How I Learned to Like Myself'" (interview with Roman Polanski)
• "From Ali: Fighter, Poet, Prophet" (interview with Muhammad Ali)
• "A Conversation with Salvador Dali" (interview with Salvador Dali)
• "From "Going to the Airport with David Hockney" (interview with David Hockney)
• "Why I Hate My Girl Friend" (essay)
• "Negative Girl" (essay)
• "A Conversation between Susan Sontag & Richard Hell, New York, 1978" (interview with Susan Sontag and Richard Hell)
• "From Making Tracks by Debbie Harry, Chris Stein & Victor Bockris" (essay)
• "Nothing Happens" (essay on / interview with Andy Warhol and Muhammad Ali)
• "From The Egolessness of Heroes: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg: Ginsberg on Rimbaud" (interview)
• photographs
• Jeff Goldberg:
• "The Philadelphia Story for The Beatles" (script with Victor Bockris, Andrew Wylie, and Otis Brown)
• photographs
• Anton Perick: photograph
• Michael McKenzie: photograph
• Christopher Makos: photographs
• Michael Heitmann: photographs
• Max de Saignac: "Body-Shaping Sexy-Style: The Failure of Conventional Bodybuilding and its Overcoming by Body-Shaping" (essay in English and German)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Punk Rock Your My Big Crybaby" (poetry)
• Dennis Morris: photographs
• René Matti:
• "No Future: Punk – von Anfang bis Ende" (essay)
• photographs
• Urs Steiger: photograph
• Ariola-Sire: photograph
• Walter Hartmann: photograph
• Bruno Stettler: photographs
• Peter Wittwer: photographs

Publishing Information: 

• Editor-in-Chief and Director: Carl Laszlo
• Photographic Editor: Michael Heitmann
• Editor: René Matti