DMT42
By: [text] by G. V. Golikova ; illuminated by Gerald Laing
Contributors: Golikova, Galina Valentina; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
Publisher: Edition Domberger
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Pop art; Artists' illustrated books
Other titles: DMT 42
Notes: "NYC 1969."

Artist's book from an edition of 210. Numbered special edition soft-cover book housed in a lavender linen slipcase with a silk-screened title on the cover. Text by Galina Golikova and illustrated with 23 screenprints by Gerald Laing.

This book is illustrated by a British Pop artist who was once grouped alongside Allen Jones, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, and Antony Donaldson. Laing was deeply influenced by the experiences of William Burroughs in the Amazonian rainforest in search of 'Ayahuasca' the hallucinogenic vine with the active ingredient Dimethyltriptamine (D.M.T.), hence the title. The title for this work also came from Laing's childhood memory of a teapot in the form of an open car with a number plate that read "OKT42."