The Garden of Eden [Il GIardino Dell'Eden]

Japan: Herald Ace / Nippon Herald Films, Circa 1980. Vintage pressbook for the 1980 film. A Japanese-Italian coproduction, with text in both Japanese and Italian.

From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah.

Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A pickpocket meets and falls in love with a naive, wealthy girl at an art museum, and the couple go to a deserted beach to live together. Director Yasuzô Masumura's penultimate film and only western production.

8.5 x 11.75 inches. Ten leaves, in side-stapled, pictorial wrappers. Near Fine.

[Book #162166]