{"product_id":"pornografie-klaus-staeck-1971","title":"Pornografie – Klaus Staeck, 1971","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"316\" data-start=\"86\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"529\"\u003eThis artist’s book by Klaus Staeck, completed in 1970 and published in 1971 by Anabas Verlag, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because it offers a caustic, politically charged redefinition of pornography—not of sex, but of violence, media and state power. The title \u003cem data-start=\"363\" data-end=\"376\"\u003ePornografie\u003c\/em\u003e is a provocation: what unfolds inside is not erotic at all, but a dense visual essay on the obscenity of authority and the mass spectacle of repression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"1020\"\u003eStaeck, a key figure in postwar German political art, assembles a barrage of press photographs, protest images, police brutality, and tabloid fragments. Riot police in helmets become recurring motifs, their visors pixelated like censored genitals. The graphic language is stark: black backgrounds, aggressive crops, and a montage style indebted to Dada and Situationism. It reads like a dossier, a piece of forensic resistance against the hypocritical moral codes of the West German state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1022\" data-end=\"1375\"\u003ePublished at a moment of deep unrest—shortly after 1968, amid RAF trials and violent protest crackdowns—\u003cem data-start=\"1126\" data-end=\"1139\"\u003ePornografie\u003c\/em\u003e is not a photobook in the classic sense but a critical object. It weaponises design to ask: What kind of images are allowed to circulate, and which ones are suppressed? What violence is deemed acceptable, and which bodies are punished?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1495\"\u003eA rare early work by one of Germany’s most radical image-makers, and a chilling document of mediated authoritarianism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1497\" data-end=\"1516\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1497\" data-end=\"1516\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1537\"\u003eTitle\u003cbr data-start=\"1523\" data-end=\"1526\"\u003ePornografie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1539\" data-end=\"1569\"\u003eArtist \/ Author\u003cbr data-start=\"1554\" data-end=\"1557\"\u003eKlaus Staeck\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1571\" data-end=\"1582\"\u003eDate\u003cbr data-start=\"1575\" data-end=\"1578\"\u003e1971\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1584\" data-end=\"1629\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method\u003cbr data-start=\"1611\" data-end=\"1614\"\u003eOffset printing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1631\" data-end=\"1661\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials\u003cbr data-start=\"1649\" data-end=\"1652\"\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1663\" data-end=\"1695\"\u003eDimensions (cm)\u003cbr data-start=\"1678\" data-end=\"1681\"\u003e29.5 x 23.5 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1697\" data-end=\"1714\"\u003eLanguage\u003cbr data-start=\"1705\" data-end=\"1708\"\u003eGerman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1716\" data-end=\"1749\"\u003ePages\u003cbr data-start=\"1721\" data-end=\"1724\"\u003eUnpaginated (approx. 120)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1810\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor\u003cbr data-start=\"1769\" data-end=\"1772\"\u003eAnabas Verlag \/ H.C. Schmolck (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"1832\"\u003eISBN\u003cbr data-start=\"1816\" data-end=\"1819\"\u003e3-87038-020-9\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1834\" data-end=\"1889\"\u003eCondition\u003cbr data-start=\"1843\" data-end=\"1846\"\u003eUsed — cover has damage, and some pages are detached \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777156972882,"sku":null,"price":280.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/MAISONSCLOSES_ecc19558-ee61-4f7e-ae3b-860d3ef56606.jpg?v=1768213758","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/pornografie-klaus-staeck-1971","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}