Alejandro Jodorowsky cannot be boxed in. He’s concocted psychedelic masterpieces, penned comic strips and novels, studied mime, founded his own theater troupe, and sought healing in the mystical arts, all the while cloaking his life’s work in a delirious form of myth-making. “My consciousness,” he said in 2002, “is without limits.”

Still, a new release by Taschen takes a stab at containing him. Art Sin Fin surfaces scads of material from the archives of the 96-year-old Chilean filmmaker, the breadth of his oeuvre captured in film stills, collages, drawings, photographs, comic strips, and performance images. The book spans two volumes, each numbering more than 1,000 pages and packaged together in a Plexiglass box that doubles as a stand. It’s now available for preorder for the very handsome price of $1,500.

Art Sin Fin (2026) in its Plexiglass case. Photo courtesy of Taschen.

To be fair, the book does earn its price tag. Jodorowsky hasn’t just handpicked every image and object for feature in the tome—in partnership with Donatien Grau, the head of contemporary programs at the Louvre Museum—but has written copious reflections to accompany the material. As expected, they are mystifying, outrageous texts, occasionally profound and often funny. 

A 1960s photograph of his mime act, for instance, is annotated with: “Revolted with bliss like a human horse, I walk this arrow through the most wonderful of empty lives that threatens to shatter my vertebrae.” As to a pair of pages from his 1992–2003 comic series The Caste of the Meta-Barons, illustrated by Juan Giménez, Jodorowsky decides: “Perfect work! Fantastic neurons! Nothing in the world can find what to add to these two pages!”

Alejandro Jodorowsky in The Holy Mountain (1973). Photo courtesy of Taschen.

Coming from the theater world, Jodorowsky rose to cultic prominence in the 1970s on the back of his surrealist films El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973)—the former so enraptured John Lennon that he helped secure funding for the latter. While not commercial successes, they established the director as a visionary provocateur. Just as infamous was the film he did not make: an ambitious adaptation of Dune, the failed production of which consumed him for years and was later the subject of the celebrated 2014 documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune.

Inside Art Sin Fin (2026). Photo courtesy of Taschen.

Throughout, Jodorowsky maintained his comics work, creating the graphic novel series The Incal with Mœbius in 1980 and the Metabarons trilogy in 1992. He developed his so-called “psychomagic” practice, a form of therapy that emerged from his research on the Tarot de Marseille. Lately, he’s been collaborating with his wife Pascale Montandon—they’re known collectively as pascALEjandro—on bizarre, metaphoric drawings; the works were most recently exhibited at L.A.’s Blum gallery in 2024.

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fabulas Panicas (1967–73). Photo courtesy of Taschen.

Art Sin Fin hits on all these high notes in Jodorowsky’s oeuvre, and even those in between. There are glimpses of his early ’60s comic Panic Fables (“I refuse to publish this imbecility,” reads Jodorowsky’s caption); his 1961 production of the Leonora Carrington play Penélope; and his reconstructed Tarot de Marseille deck, created with illustrator Philippe Camoin.

There’s even a shot of his first pantomime performance on a Chilean stage, described as: “Aged 17, made up as an old man of 90, experiencing an orgasm in the arms of death.”

Chris Foss, Guild Tug, design for Jodorowsky’s Dune (1976). Photo courtesy of Taschen.

Ample room is also given to his later films, from Santa Sangre (1989) to The Dance of Reality (2013), their stills joined by the director’s increasingly feverish reflections.

Dune, of course, gets a spotlight, via concept art and designs by Mœbius, H.R. Giger, and Chris Foss, and a shot of Jodorowsky’s storyboard book known as the Dune Bible, the most remarkable (and valuable) artifact from the greatest film never made. But strikingly, and uncharacteristically, Jodorowsky has nothing more to say of this chapter.

Alejandro Jodorowsky. Art Sin Fin will be released by Taschen in February 2026.