by Jonathan Ames. Published by Granary Books / Slought Foundation, New York, 2004. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial french-fold wraps. 143pp. Fine.
“Malen uses pseudo-documentary photos, video and audio transcriptions, “testimonials,” case histories, and arcane imagery to archive the functioning of her own reinvention of the utopian society established in Paris in 1793 by the followers of Franz Anton Mesmer known as La société de l’harmonie universelle”