We are pleased to announce the publication of a new paperback version of Pamela Joseph's The Hundred Headless Women. A limited handmade artist edition was published in 2006. The name pays homage to Max Ernst's brilliant novel of collages and engravings from 1929, The Hundred Headless Woman. Joseph's book is based on a series of wood-burned kitchen cutting boards of women in perilous situations, but like a magician's assistant, she is always smiling and she always survives.
The images were originally created for the artist's traveling exhibition, The Sideshow of the Absurd.

The cover image is a magic trick called The Headless Woman, which was widely performed in historic Carnival Sideshows. The book's theme should also appeal to a variety of people who are not only interested in the fine arts but also in the modern primitive movement, tattos, absurdist humor, feminist history, comics, etc.

The size is 9.50" x 6.75". There are 167 pages, and the cover is a nicely textured substantial weight paper.

The paperback has been printed in an edition of 3000 copies. The Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, New York and MA Nose Studios, Inc., Aspen, Colorado are the co-publishers.
There are essays by Molly Tambor, Sue Scott and James Surls.
The anticipated retail price would be $25.00.