Artist's book concept and images by Maurizio Catelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. Creative direction by Dennis Freedman with texts sourced by James Hoff. Texts by , Kenneth Patchen, A.M. Worthington, Graham Brown, Tim Craig, Dr. Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, Dr. John Scoffern, Lorraine Moore, Mark Moore, Cely Giron, D.W. Bliss MD, Toronto Star, The New York Times,The Timeloards, New York Times, Thomas F. De Voe, Rater, Daniil Kharms, Wonder Robot, Esmond Choueke and other sources. "On the occasion of his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2011, Italian provocateur Maurizio Cattelan announced that he was retiring from art. In fact, his new career had already begun in 2010 with 'Toilet Paper,' a magazine-cum-artist's book containing no text, only full spreads of color photographs that appropriate the slick production values of commercial photography to deliver dreamlike (or nightmarish) images. This deluxe volume gathers all of the images published in these five issues, re-edited by Dennis Freedman in collaboration with Cattelan; it also includes a significant portion of previously unpublished images. The photographs vary in style and reference, from nineteenth-century crime scene to French New Wave film still; from optical illusions and games to word play. Among its more notorious images are a man dressed as a nun shooting up in a tawdry bedroom and a dirty ear floating in a bowl of yellow soup. In an interview with Vogue Italia, Ferrari said that 'the project emerged from a passion/obsession that Maurizio and I have in common. Each picture springs from an idea, even a simple one, and then becomes a complex orchestration of people who build tableaux vivants. This project is also a sort of mental outburst.'" -- publisher's statement.