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Encyclopedia Destructica

Homegrown Pittsburgh publisher of homegrown Pittsburgh artists, writers, poets, collagists, film & video makers and more. Their books are handmade works of art themselves!


Title Author Publisher Price
The Flying Destructicate: New Visual Language Encyclopedia Destructica $20.00
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The Flying Destructicate:  New Visual Language
Devoted to the work of Pittsburgh artist, Josh Tonies and his a group of his cohorts who are working together to forge a "new visual language," this book, the latest production from the folks at Encyclopedia Destructica, is an impossibly complex hand made assemblage that defies description, but they've given it a try, here.  You simply have to come in and see it for yourself!  Once you see it, you'll understand just how labor intensive a production it is and why we can only get in five copies at a time.  So, if you missed the book launch party at the Warhol Museum but you still want to get your hands on one, don't waste any time getting over here, as these aren't going to last long. 
copacetic price - $20.00
2008 Flying Destructicate: Jonathan Brodsky - Make Your Own Truth Jonathan Brodsky Encyclopedia Destructica $25.00
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Read more and comment... 		  Limited to 200 handmade copies, this item pretty much has to be seen to be fully appreciated.  Put together by Jonathan Brodsky and the folks at Encyclopedia Destructica, it's a hand assembled slipcase containing: a hand bound hardcover book containing work by Brodsky, Alberto Almarza, Josh Atlas, Juliacks, Rick Gribenas and Paus Akid; eight file-folder-art-zines (for lack of a better term) that are hard copy manifestations of power point presentations made by eight different Pittsburgh artists (among them Unicorn Mountain's Curt Gettman) on a wide variety of topics; and a DVD that contains several pieces by Brodsky along with pieces by Almarza and Gribenas.  A limited edition, hand crafted work of multiple media art from Pittsburgh, PA.  Need we say more?
Encyclopedia Destructica: Volume Coatlicue 2 Ed Steck, Karl Hendricks, Wayne Wise Encyclopedia Destructica $10.00
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Read more and comment... 		edited by Jerome Crooks Yes, believe it or not, it's yet another handmade-in-Pittsburgh comopendium of culture from the folks at E.D.  This time around we have a fat post-bound volume with (approximately) 80 different covers -- collect them all! (or not)  This book contains work by 29 (count 'em) writers and 18 artists.  In our opinion, this is one of E.D.'s most solid outings.  Editor Crooks has assembled some great local talent including Karl Hendricks, whose story, "Less Than Mick Jagger," has to be considered one of the collection stand-outs.  Other contributors on board who should be familiar to many a Copacetic customer include writers Ed Steck and Wayne Wise, along with artists Tom Scioli and Nils Balls.  This collection runs a whopping 241 pages, is chock-a-block with work by talented people some of whom many of you will doubtless know, is handmade here in Pittsburgh in a limited edition of between 200 and 300 copies (sorry, forgot the exact copy count...240?), and is bargain priced.  How can you say no?