Jungle Fever (the cult classic NYC art book)

Published by Quartet Books, London, 1982, hardcover, 150 pages, some wear to dust jacket otherwise condition: as new.

Art Director Jean Paul Goude is clearly among those artists who faced their inner drives fearlessly and rewarded the world with unforgettable images of spectacular artistic merit, craft and style. This body of work was primarily created during the late seventies when sex, drugs and fashion were celebrated to a throbbing disco beat and new york city lead the world in hip/urban cultural expression. JPG was lucky enough to have found the entertainer Grace Jones and she, in turn, was smart enough to let him transform her into a legendary icon of performance art that fused fashion , music and a extra strong dose of stylishly erotic provocation.

People can choose to see his strong interest in black women as exploitive and racial insensitivity, or they can focus on the strength of a master visionary who captured the visual vocabulary of a specific time and place and maxed it out. The newly energized gay movement of that time fed into JPG's imagination, adding a heightened sense of the physical form and sensual drama to his portfolio.

A brilliant record of the party life in manhattan mixing high and low, black and white, women and men and everything in between with joyful abandon.

Many images have not uploaded due to their permissive nature.

Also a few years ago Jean Paul Goude gave kim kardashian the grace jones (photographic) treatment and ' broke the internet'.

This book is the cult classic, first edition.