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A Neural Interval.
Advertiser’s Announcement. Np.: self-published, nd. (1968). Photo-illustrated card. 25.4x18.5cm. Verso blank.
The third in the series of five Advertiser’s Announcements Ballard created and placed at his own expense in Ambit magazine between 1967 and 1971.
Published on the back cover of issue no. 36 (and later in New Worlds in December 1968), it features a magazine photograph portraying a woman on a boat dressed in bondage gear, sourced from the collection of Eduardo Paolozzi, an artist whose work Ballard first encountered at the ICA in 1956.
A brief text to the upper left corner reads: “In her face the diagram of bones forms a geometry of murder. After Freud’s exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised.”
In the blank upper section, an ink holograph note in blue ballpoint invites Ambit contributor Nathaniel Tarn to the magazine’s 10th birthday party at The Swan in Holborn on August 1, 1969.
Minor creasing, o/w Near Fine.