From the Exhibition: The Anomalous Baird Jones (1955–2008)
Book and related ephemera, 1987
Lot includes book and related party invitation.
Baird Jones, Sexual Humor. Philosophical Library (New York), 1987. 353 pp. With original dust jacket.
Invitation to party for (never released) paperback edition of Sexual Humor, 1990. Ink on card stock, 5 1/2″ x 2 3/4″.
Baird’s academic monograph, published by Philosophical Library, applies Freudian psychoanalytic theory to a collection of cartoons, limericks, and jokes.
$100.
Sexual Humor (cover)
Table of contents
First page
Cartoons collected in Sexual Humor
Party invitation, “Announcing that the hard cover edition of Baird Jones’ Psychoanalysis of Sexual Humor [sic] has now sold out and that the publishers, Philosophical Library, have decided to put out a paperback edition, which will be available in bookstores soon!” The paperback edition was never published.
BAIRD JONES EXHIBITION HOMEPAGE
From the Exhibition: The Anomalous Baird Jones (1955–2008)
The Anomalous Baird Jones (1955–2008)
Martin Wong, Portrait of Baird Jones, Ink on paper, 1986
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Martin Wong, Sketch of Baird Jones, Ink on paper, 1986
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Martin Wong, Receipt to Baird Jones, Exchanging “two drawings…for big stack of photos,” Ink on paper, 1986
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Baird Jones, 43rd Birthday Party Invitation, Palladium, 1998
Mark Kostabi at a “Kosthappening,” signed and stamped photo, 1985
Mark Kostabi and the Est Village Scene 1983-1987, Mark Kostabi, Baird Jones, Book and Publisher’s Statement, 2002
Downtown Magazine – Issue No. 35, January 21, 1987
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Three invitations: East Village art, COLAB women, and “South Bronx Fantasies,” 1987
Two invitations to Milk Bar exhibitions, 1988
Baird Jones, Party Invites, “Three Geniuses,” “Keith Haring vs. Mark Kostabi,” “The Nostalgic Nineties,” 1980s–90s
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Tunnel, Jimmy DeSana, Invitation for “Art Un-Censored”, 1987
Baird Jones, Party Invitations Featuring Mike Anderson, 1989
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Baird Jones, Two Nightclub Events Honoring Yippie Pie Man, Cards, 1990
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Press release for Baird’s appointment as curator and exhibition invites, 1980s–90s
Baird Jones, Miles Davis serigraph (1995) from Black History Month exhibition, Milk Bar, (2000)
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