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The first issue was published in 1975. Contributing editors included The Cultural Camelion, Les Petites Bon-Bons, Art Hoax, The James C. Duncan memorial Society, Bobby Shaftow Fan Club, and Children For E/ART/H. Cover photography was by Greg Jeresek. Other photographs were by Emerson & Lowe, Frank Ford, and Suzan Carson. Much of the first issue included recollections of Lambert's career as Boby BonBon, who, along with Jeri BonBon (Jerry Dreva), made up the performance group Les Petites Bon-Bon. The zine features clippings of their appearances in magazines such as ''People'', and ''Star'', at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, and with Sable Star in 1973. Later articles reference other artists involved in mail art. Nicholas ballet, in their 2021 article, "Jeans as a Fact of Art", writes of the duo, "The American art group Les Petites Bonbons, formed in particular by the artists Jerry Dreva and Robert Lambert, hijacked the visual and behavioral codes of the Hollywood glitter rock scene from the beginning of the 1970s through performance and mail art, in order to explore gender identities and to subvert the starification process of a subculture. By exposing the very construction of celebrity and its myth through public staging, documented by the specialized newspapers of this period, Dreva and Lambert intended to turn the superficiality of mass media back on itself." | The first issue was published in 1975. Contributing editors included The Cultural Camelion, Les Petites Bon-Bons, Art Hoax, The James C. Duncan memorial Society, Bobby Shaftow Fan Club, and Children For E/ART/H. Cover photography was by Greg Jeresek. Other photographs were by Emerson & Lowe, Frank Ford, and Suzan Carson. Much of the first issue included recollections of Lambert's career as Boby BonBon, who, along with Jeri BonBon (Jerry Dreva), made up the performance group Les Petites Bon-Bon. The zine features clippings of their appearances in magazines such as ''People'', and ''Star'', at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, and with Sable Star in 1973. Later articles reference other artists involved in mail art. Nicholas ballet, in their 2021 article, "Jeans as a Fact of Art", writes of the duo, "The American art group Les Petites Bonbons, formed in particular by the artists Jerry Dreva and Robert Lambert, hijacked the visual and behavioral codes of the Hollywood glitter rock scene from the beginning of the 1970s through performance and mail art, in order to explore gender identities and to subvert the starification process of a subculture. By exposing the very construction of celebrity and its myth through public staging, documented by the specialized newspapers of this period, Dreva and Lambert intended to turn the superficiality of mass media back on itself." | ||
| − | At least two other issues were published, with issue 3 appearing in 1978. | + | At least two other issues were published, with issue 3 appearing in 1978. |
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| + | ''Egozine'' is included in the archival collection of MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, in Barcelona, Spain, and at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky in Paris, France. | ||
In 2024, ''Egozine'' was one of the titles featured in the Brooklyn Museum exhibition of artist-made zines, [[Machine Copy Manifesto]]. | In 2024, ''Egozine'' was one of the titles featured in the Brooklyn Museum exhibition of artist-made zines, [[Machine Copy Manifesto]]. | ||
Revision as of 05:58, 14 March 2024
Egozine is a zine published in Hollywood, California, U.S.A. by Robert Lambert.
The first issue was published in 1975. Contributing editors included The Cultural Camelion, Les Petites Bon-Bons, Art Hoax, The James C. Duncan memorial Society, Bobby Shaftow Fan Club, and Children For E/ART/H. Cover photography was by Greg Jeresek. Other photographs were by Emerson & Lowe, Frank Ford, and Suzan Carson. Much of the first issue included recollections of Lambert's career as Boby BonBon, who, along with Jeri BonBon (Jerry Dreva), made up the performance group Les Petites Bon-Bon. The zine features clippings of their appearances in magazines such as People, and Star, at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, and with Sable Star in 1973. Later articles reference other artists involved in mail art. Nicholas ballet, in their 2021 article, "Jeans as a Fact of Art", writes of the duo, "The American art group Les Petites Bonbons, formed in particular by the artists Jerry Dreva and Robert Lambert, hijacked the visual and behavioral codes of the Hollywood glitter rock scene from the beginning of the 1970s through performance and mail art, in order to explore gender identities and to subvert the starification process of a subculture. By exposing the very construction of celebrity and its myth through public staging, documented by the specialized newspapers of this period, Dreva and Lambert intended to turn the superficiality of mass media back on itself."
At least two other issues were published, with issue 3 appearing in 1978.
Egozine is included in the archival collection of MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, in Barcelona, Spain, and at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky in Paris, France.
In 2024, Egozine was one of the titles featured in the Brooklyn Museum exhibition of artist-made zines, Machine Copy Manifesto.
