Putti's Pudding: Cookie Mueller and Vittorio Scarpati (Art Random ; 11) (English and Japanese Editio

Writer and John-Waters-movie-star Cookie Mueller and artist/poet Vittorio Scarpati, husband and wife, team up for a final collaboration. Scarpati's insightful, witty, poignant drawings were made while in the hospital in his last months. Mueller writes: "Seen chronologically this is a journey of extreme pain made bearable by his sublime imagination. It's the story of a trip along the paths of Vittorio's fantasies and for a man who hasn't felt the warmth of sunlight or the sweet breezes of fresh air for four months, there's a lot to create in the inward eye. From limitations come finally an emancipation...toward a pinnacle of inspiration." Within months of this publication in 1990, both were taken by the AIDS epidemic.