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Jordan Strafer: Trilogy
Jordan Strafer; Text written by Kyle Dancewicz, Bruce Hainley, Rebecca Matalon
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R599
R498
Discovery Miles 4 980
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Parkett (Paperback)
Thomas Demand, John Wesley, Jeremy Millar; Edited by Russell Ferguson; Text written by Andreas Ruby; Contributions by …
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R746
Discovery Miles 7 460
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Lisa Lapinski: Miss Swiss (Hardcover)
Lisa Lapinski; Text written by Kyle Dancewicz, Bruce Hainley, MacKenzie Stevens, Sabrina Tarasoff, …
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R740
Discovery Miles 7 400
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Crazy for Vincent (Paperback)
Herv e Guibert; Introduction by Bruce Hainley; Translated by Christine Pichini
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R351
R289
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Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography,
hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love. In the middle of the
night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the
third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of
tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine... -from Crazy for
Vincent Crazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it
fixates upon: Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate
"monster" of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime
beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of
French writer and photographer Herve Guibert's life over the span
of six years (from 1982, when he first met Vincent as a
fifteen-year-old teenager, to 1988). After Vincent's senseless
death, the narrator embarks on a reconnaissance writing mission to
retrieve the Vincent that had entered, elevated, and emotionally
eviscerated his life, working chronologically backward from the
death that opens the text. Assembling Vincent's fragmentary
appearances in his journal, the author seeks to understand what
Vincent's presence in his life had been: a passion? a love? an
erotic obsession? or an authorial invention? A parallel inquiry
could be made into the book that results: Is it diary, memoir,
poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? Crazy for
Vincent is a text the very nature of which is as untethered as
desire itself.
Gary Indiana's collected columns of art criticism from the Village
Voice, documenting, from the front lines, the 1980s New York art
scene. In 1985, the Village Voice offered me a job as senior art
critic. This made my life easier and lousy at the same time. I now
had to actually enter all those galleries instead of peeking in the
windows. At times, the only tangible perk was having the chump for
a fifth of vodka whenever twenty more phonies had flattered my ass
off in the course of a working week. -from Vile Days From March
1985 through June 1988 in The Village Voice, Gary Indiana
reimagined the weekly art column. Thirty years later, Vile Days
brings together for the first time all of those vivid dispatches,
too long stuck in archival limbo, so that the fire of Indiana's
observations can burn again. In the midst of Reaganism, the grim
toll of AIDS, and the frequent jingoism of postmodern theory,
Indiana found a way to be the moment's Baudelaire. He turned the
art review into a chronicle of life under siege. As a critic,
Indiana combines his novelistic and theatrical gifts with a
startling political acumen to assess art and the unruly
environments that give it context. No one was better positioned to
elucidate the work of key artists at crucial junctures of their
early careers, from Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince to Jeff Koons
and Cindy Sherman, among others. But Indiana also remained alert to
the aesthetic consequence of sumo wrestling, flower shows, public
art, corporate galleries, and furniture design. Edited and prefaced
by Bruce Hainley, Vile Days provides an opportunity to track
Indiana's emergence as one of the most prescient writers of his
generation.
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Alex Da Corte: Mr. Remember (Hardcover)
Alex Da Corte; Edited by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen, William Pym, Mathias Ussing Seeberg; Foreword by Poul Erik Tojner; Text written by …
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Now the Night Begins (Hardcover)
Alain Guiraudie, Bruce Hainley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jeffrey Zuckerman, Chris Kraus
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R686
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A novel that is a meditation on friendship, love, obsession, power,
and abuse, by turns hyperrealist and phantasmagoric, recalling the
work of Sade and Bataille. And he leaves. I'm not happy, I'm pretty
upset at myself, I wasn't satisfied with him but I wouldn't have
been any better without him. I sit on the couch and think. I'm not
actually thinking, it's already been thought, I have to call
Grampa... I need to hear his voice. I miss him. -from Now the Night
Begins At the tail end of summer vacation, Gilles Heurtebise drifts
between lazy afternoons, swimming, cruising the shores of a nearby
lake, and absentmindedly hooking up with old lovers. He has yet to
achieve material or romantic stability. He is forty, facing a
precarious future with unformed fears and regrets. The one thing
that seems solid is Grampa, the ninety-year-old patriarch of a
family Gilles has befriended. Gilles grows obsessed by the old man,
and a strange sexual bond grows between the two. When the police
get involved, and Gilles is witness to a murder, the banality of
interhuman violence is brought to a paroxysmal climax. The winner
of France's prestigious Prix Sade, Now the Night Begins is a
meditation on friendship, love, power, and abuse in a world where
social relations have radically disintegrated. Interwoven with
swaths of Occitan, the language of troubadours and love, and by
turns hyperrealist and phantasmagoric, the novel recalls Georges
Bataille's dark surrealism and the unvarnished violence of Bret
Easton Ellis. It proves Alain Guiraudie's status as the preeminent
writer of the vulnerability underlying our contemporary malaise.
"The genial perversity of Alain Guiraudie's Now the Night Begins is
something rare and fascinatingly energized, a metaphysical and
moral slapstick that points to the arbitrariness of all authority
and the fluidity of all desires. In its way, the most elegant,
certainly the most hilarious brief for anarchy that anyone has
written in a long time." -Gary Indiana "Raw, sexual, and
scatological, Alain Guiraudie's novel evokes Sade and Bataille."
-Elisabeth Philippe
A prolific social critic, Paul McCarthy is best known for his work
in performance, installation, film, and sculpture. His works
reference American cultural archetypes such as Disneyland, B
movies, soap operas, comic books, and contemporary politics. His
drawings and films skewer, often profanely, mass media and
consumer-driven American society by pointing to its hypocrisy,
double standards, and repression. McCarthy's work is also deeply
influenced by European avant-garde art, especially by figures such
as Joseph Beuys and Samuel Beckett, and Viennese Actionism.
McCarthy's drawings share the same visual language as his
three-dimensional works: violence, humour, sex, politics, art
history, and popular culture. Featuring 50 years of works on paper
in charcoal, pencil, pen and ink, and collage, this selection
includes pieces from McCarthy's renowned "White Snow" series, his
contributions to the "Plato in L.A." project at the Getty Museum,
and recent sketches in which, unsurprisingly given the current
political climate, McCarthy's gloves-off approach feels both
necessary and inevitable. This book reveals an important aspect of
his drawing techniques, and situates his works on paper as one of
the most significant in contemporary art.
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