UNLICENSED. Bootlegging as Creative Practice. - Ben Schwartz CONTRIBUTORSCarla Montemayor

CONTRIBUTORSCarla Montemayor

Seiichi Motohashi's beautiful behind-the-scenes portraits documenting the lives of circus people and their animals in 1970s Japan

While contending with day-to-day struggles common to other booksellers

Elsa’s Saracen tower stands formidable amidst a shrubland… In the distance

226pp wraps in a printed dust jacket

UNLICENSED. Bootlegging as Creative Practice. - Ben Schwartz CONTRIBUTORSCarla MontemayorOver the last few decades the term bootlegginga practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringershas become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground