Karen Eliot (Stewart Home).
Smile # 8: Smile Back at the Ruling Class.
London: Bonfire Press, 1980s.
Staple-bound softcover.
20 pages including covers.
Very good.
Light unobtrusive bend at binding. Faint soiling front top left. Minor edgewear / creasing.
Slogans, diaries, writing about art, writing about social conditions, writing about situationism, etc.
Scarce magazine published by British writer Stewart Home though written under the neoist pseudonym, Karen Eliot. "Karen Eliot" and "Smile" are both examples of names that have been taken up by different people or organizations in the same spirit as "Monty Cantsin". Anonymous (sometimes) group pseudonyms.
"Smile is the name chosen by Monty Cantsin to refer to an international magazine of multiple origins. The name is fixed, the type of magazines using it aren't."
Gwen Allen, Artists Magazines (2011), p. 297.
