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A young woman drifts through a series of one night stands and
truncated love affairs. Finding herself in a series of increasingly
bizarre situations, she turns her curious and savage eye out on the
foibles of the world around her. The men of this world evade and
simper, they prey, and preen, and fall hopelessly in love. Through
these snapshots we get a biting psychopathology, not just of
masculinity in its various masks, but of sex and desire in the
early 1970s.
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Nate Lowman (Hardcover)
Lynne Tillman; Jim Lewis; Interview by Andrew Woolbright
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R1,374
Discovery Miles 13 740
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A stunning, focused document of Nate Lowman’s work from the past
four years. ---------- "Brewing the good, the bad, and the ugly of
consumerist modern life in his masterful paintings, Lowman draws a
portrait of the times that is equally mischievous and somber." -
BOMB Magazine ----------- With an archive of source material
amassed and processed over time, Lowman creates slippery, layered
images that transform visual referents found in the news, media,
and art history. In this volume, Lowman plays with cataclysmic
imagery that probes the tensions between the everyday and the
extreme, presence and absence, and violence and representation. In
his vibrant paintings of digitally rendered hurricane imagery and
crime scene photography cataloging the aftermath of the October
2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, he considers the physicality of
his medium in connection to the chaos of his subject matter.
Spotlighting Lowman’s exhibitions at David Zwirner in London and
New York along with other recent work, this monograph includes a
text by Lynne Tillman that provides a unique perspective across all
bodies of Lowman’s oeuvre. In an interview with Andrew Paul
Woolbright for The Brooklyn Rail, Lowman discusses his engagement
with representation and meaning, twentieth-century gestural and pop
art, slow painting, and American violence.
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March Avery: A Life in Color
March Avery; Contributions by Johanna Fateman, Lynne Tillman, John Yau
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R756
Discovery Miles 7 560
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March Avery: A Life in Color is the first monograph on the New
York-based painter March Avery. Documenting the artist's practice
of more than 80 years, the book features three newly commissioned
texts and some 200 images.Avery was born in 1932 to the painters
Milton Avery and Sally Michel, and began painting as a child. As
she says, "I think I was painting in utero." The dividing line
between life and art was blurred during her upbringing, as is
reflected in the subject matter of her work: everyday domestic
scenes, portraits of friends and family members, and landscapes
visited and revisited over the course of a lifetime.Avery's oil
paintings, sketches and watercolors are known for their flat
picture planes, interlocking shapes and simplicity of forms. The
artist's mastery of colour brings life, immediacy of place and
emotional depth to her compositions, as March Avery: A Life in
Color illustrates, beautifully.The book also includes articles by
writers/critics Johanna Fateman, Lynne Tillman and John Yau, whose
texts explore and animate Avery's life and work.
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Motion Sickness
Lynne Tillman
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R329
R268
Discovery Miles 2 680
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From the acclaimed cult writer of Weird Fucks For the narrator of
Motion Sickness life is an unguided tour, populated with hotels and
strangers, art, books, and films. Adrift in Europe, her life
becomes a carousel of unusual encounters, where coincidences and
luck shape la vita nuova. In London our narrator is befriended by
an expatriate American Buddhist and her mysterious husband. In
Paris she meets Arlette, an art historian obsessed with
Velazquez’s painting ‘Las Meninas’. In Barcelona she meets
two generations of Germans. She tours the hill towns of Italy in a
London taxi with two surprising Englishmen in pursuit of art and
Henry Moore. She buys postcards to send, but often tears them up,
not sure of what the pictures mean. At once dreamlike and tough,
hilarious and melancholic, Motion Sickness is a contemporary
picaresque in which a young woman drifts and reinvents herself with
every new encounter.
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Dana Schutz
Hamza Walker, Dan Nadel, Lynne Tillman
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R923
Discovery Miles 9 230
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The first comprehensive monograph on one of today’s most
innovative and successful painters – made in close collaboration
with the artist Defined by bold brushstrokes, a dynamic use of
color and imaginative compositions, the paintings of Dana Schutz
are panoramic expanses that offer visions of humanity in all its
complex facets. Her deeply subjective approach, untethered from
realism, translates into images that seem to exist in a place that
transcends time while celebrating the intrinsic qualities of her
medium of choice with freedom and intelligence. As the artist
herself stated, ‘I’m interested in painting as an affective
place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within
the space of a painting.’ This first comprehensive monograph on
her work was created in close collaboration with the artist and
features a number of never-before-seen paintings and drawings.
Written between 1913 and 1929, revolutionary years in art history,
Dix Portraits conveys the deep human engagement between an artist
and her subject. The artist's book unites Stein's ten portraits in
prose with sketches by five artists: Pablo Picasso, Christian
Berard, Eugene Berman, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Kristians Tonny.
Utilizing the interplay between word and image, Stein's writing and
the artists' images provide nuance and depth, balancing humor and
sincerity. With a new introduction by Lynne Tillman, Dix Portraits
is an unforgettable artistic collaboration. The subjects
represented include Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Erik
Satie, Pavel Tchelitchew, Virgil Thomson, Christian Berard, Bernard
Fay, Kristians Tonny, Georges Hugnet, and Eugene Berman. Originally
printed in an edition of 100 copies with the lithography, and now
widely accessible for the first time, Dix Portraits captures
Stein's legacy as a champion of artists and a pioneer of
creativity.
From the author of Weird Fucks, a witty, bleak, and outrageous
account of American girlhood. Haunted Houses is the story of three
young women. Jane's occasionally violent father reads her the
Gettysburg Address at bedtimes, while Emily's parents are FDR
Democrats who only privately concede she may be normal. Grace
believes her dolls come alive at night and talk against her, and
has a mother who likes animals more than people. Tillman charts the
girls' unsteady drift into womanhood, revealing the multiple forms
of inheritance - family, gender, culture - that a girl must swallow
or rebel against. Haunted Houses is about the past within the
present, the inescapability of private memory and public history.
In prose that is uncanny and precise, it showcases Lynne Tillman at
her boldest and most trenchant.
Following in the photographic lineage of Robert Frank, Stephen
Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, Justine Kurland’s work examines the
story of America—and the idea of the American dream juxtaposed
against the reality. Her deep interest in the road, the western
frontier, escape, and ways of living outside mainstream values
pervade this stunning and important body of work. Since 2004,
Kurland and her young son, Casper, have traveled in their
customized van, going south in the winter and north in the summer,
her life as an artist and mother finely balanced between the need
for routine and the desire for freedom and surprise. Casper’s
interest —particularly in trains, and later in cars—and those
he befriends along the way often determine Kurland’s subject
matter. He appears at different ages in the work, against open
vistas and among the subcultures of train-hoppers and drifters
around them. Kurland’s vision is in equal parts raw and romantic,
idyllic and dystopian. From highly symbolic pictures of trains
moving across epic landscapes to allegorical depictions of
mechanics and muscle cars, this book features the full scope of her
road work—from her series This Train is Bound for Glory, to her
most recent, Sincere Auto Care.
"Invalid Format" is an archive of the widespread activities of
Triple Canopy, the New York-based magazine and publisher. The book
translates into print work that originally appeared in other forms.
The third volume of "Invalid Format" includes artist projects and
literary work published online in the third and fourth years of
Triple Canopy's existence, as well as documentation of public
programs. In form and content, the book explores how works produced
for the screen and live settings might be transposed to the codex
in a way that recalls former contexts while also fully inhabiting
the page. It includes contributions by Michael Almereyda, Kurt
Beals, Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, Paul Chan, Joshua Cohen, Jordan
Crandall, Simon Critchley, Moyra Davey, Roe Ethridge, Ellie Ga,
Daniel Gordon, Vivian Gornick, David Graeber, Group Theory, Joseph
McElroy, Tom McCarthy, Matt Mullican, Ken Okiishi, Eve Sussman,
Lynne Tillman and McKenzie Wark, among others.
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Factory: Andy Warhol (Hardcover)
Stephen Shore; Contributions by Lynne Tillman
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R1,457
R1,022
Discovery Miles 10 220
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Warhol's Factory as seen through the lens of a young Shore,
providing an insider view of this extraordinary moment and place
Stephen Shore was 17 years old when he began hanging out at The
Factory - Andy Warhol's legendary studio in Manhattan. Between 1965
and 1967, Shore spent nearly every day there, taking pictures of
its diverse cast of characters, from musicians to actors, artists
to writers, and including Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed, and Nico - not
to mention Warhol himself. This book presents a personal selection
of photographs from Shore's collection, providing an insider's view
of this extraordinary moment and place, as seen through the eyes of
one of photography's most beloved practitioners.
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Mothercare (Paperback)
Lynne Tillman
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R325
R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
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From the brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne
Tillman comes Mothercare, an honest and beautifully written account
of a sudden, drastically changed relationship to one's mother, and
of the time and labor spent navigating the American healthcare
system When a mother's unusual health condition, normal pressure
hydrocephalus, renders her entirely dependent on you, your sisters,
caregivers, and companions, the unthinkable becomes daily life. In
Mothercare, Tillman describes doing what seems impossible: handling
her mother as if she were a child and coping with a longtime
ambivalence toward her. In Tillman's celebrated style and as a
'rich noticer of strange things' (Colm Toibin), she describes,
without flinching, the unexpected, heartbreaking, and anxious
eleven years of caring for a sick parent. Mothercare is both a
cautionary tale and sympathetic guidance for anyone who suddenly
becomes a caregiver. This story may be helpful, informative,
consoling, or upsetting, but it never fails to underscore how
impossible it is to get the job done completely right.
The complete art world story/essays of the fictional Madame
Realism, collected for the first time. The Complete Madame Realism
and Other Stories gathers together Lynne Tillman's groundbreaking
fiction/essays on culture and places, monuments, artworks, iconic
TV shows, and received ideas, written in the third person to record
the subtle, ironic, and wry observations of the playful but stern
"Madame Realism." Through her use of a fictional character, Tillman
devised a new genre of writing that melded fiction and theory,
sensation, and critical thought, disseminating her third-person art
writer's observations in such magazines as Art in America and in a
variety of art exhibition catalogs and artist books. Two decades
after the original publication of these texts, her approach to
investigation through embodied thought has been wholly absorbed by
a new generation of artists and writers. Provocative and wholly
pleasurable, Tillman's stories/essays dissect the mundane with
alarming precision. As Lydia Davis wrote of her work, "Our
assumptions shift. The every day becomes strange, paradox is
embraced, and the unexpected is always around the corner." This new
collection also includes the complete stories of Tillman's other
persona, the quixotic author Paige Turner (whose investigation of
the language of love overshoots any actual experience of it), and
additional stories and essays that address figures such as the
"Translation Artist" and Cindy Sherman.
Ezekiel Hooper Stark is a cultural anthropologist nudging forty.
His interest is family snapshots. At home, he is absorbed by his
own family's idiosyncrasies, perversities, and pathologies, until
romantic betrayal sends him spiralling into a crisis. All the old
models of masculinity are broken. Zeke embarks on a new project,
studying the 'New Man', born under the sign of feminism. What do
you expect from women? he asks his male subjects. What do you
expect from yourself? Meanwhile, what will the reader make of Zeke
is he enlightened, chauvinistic, or simply delusional?
Kaleidoscopic and encyclopaedic, comic, tragic, and philosophical,
Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a
brilliantly original novelist but also as one of our most prominent
contemporary thinkers on art, culture and the politics of gender.
In uncompromising and fresh prose, Tillman tells the story of three
very contemporary girls. Grace, Emily and Jane collide with
friends, family, and culture under dark and comic circumstances,
presented in uncanny, disturbing, and sometimes shocking terms. In
Haunted Houses, Tillman wries of the past within the present, and
of the inescapability of private memory and public history. A
caustic account of how America makes and unmakes a young woman.
While the tumultuous 1970s rock the world around them, a collection
of aging expatriates linger in a quiet town on the island of Crete,
where they have escaped their pasts and their present. Among them
is Horace, a gay American writer who fears he has finally reached
old age. Friends only frustrate him, and his youthful Greek lover
provides little satisfaction. Idling his time away with alcohol and
working on a novel that he will never finish, Horace feels closer
than ever to his own sorry end. That is, until a young, enigmatic
American woman named Helen joins his crowd of outsiders. In Helen,
Horace discovers someone brilliant, beautiful, and stubbornly
mysterious -- in short, she becomes his absolute obsession. But as
Horace knows, people have a way of preserving their secrets even as
they try to forget them. Soon, Helen's past begins to follow her to
Crete. A suicidal ex-lover appears without warning; whispers of her
long-dead sister surface in local gossip; and signs of ancient
Gypsy rituals come to the fore. Helen vanishes. Deep down, Horace
knows that he must find her before he can find any peace within
himself.
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Cast in Doubt (Paperback, None)
Lynne Tillman; Introduction by Wayne Koestenbaum
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R466
R397
Discovery Miles 3 970
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While the tumultuous 1970s rock the world around them, a collection
of aging expatriates linger in a quiet town on the island of Crete,
where they have escaped their pasts and their present. Among them
is Horace, a gay American writer who fears he has finally reached
old age. Friends only frustrate him, and his youthful Greek lover
provides little satisfaction. Idling his time away with alcohol and
working on a pulp novel that he will never finish, Horace feels
closer than ever to his own sorry end. That is, until a young,
enigmatic American woman named Helen joins his crowd of outsiders.
In Helen, Horace discovers someone brilliant, beautiful, and
stubbornly mysterious -- in short, she becomes his absolute
obsession. But as Horace knows, people have a way of preserving
their secrets even as they try to forget them. Soon, Helen's past
begins to follow her to Crete. A suicidal ex-lover appears without
warning; whispers of her long-dead sister surface in local gossip;
and signs of ancient Gypsy rituals come to the fore. Helen
vanishes. Deep down, Horace knows that he must find her before he
can find any peace within himself.
In uncompromising and fresh prose, Tillman tells the story of three
very contemporary girls. Grace, Emily and Jane collide with
friends, family, and culture under dark and comic circumstances,
presented in uncanny, disturbing, and sometimes shocking terms. In
Haunted Houses, Tillman wries of the past within the present, and
of the inescapability of private memory and public history. A
caustic account of how America makes and unmakes a young woman.
The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment
in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the
characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of
American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas,
Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at the reception. Narrators
-- by turn infamous and nameless -- shift within their own skin,
struggling to unknot reminiscence from reality while scenes rush
into warm focus, then cool, twist, and snap in the breeze of
shifting thought. Epistle, quotation, and haiku bounce between
lyrical passages of lucid beauty, echoing the scattered, cycling
arpeggio of Tillman's preferred subject: the unsettled mind.
Collectively, these stories own a conscience shaped by oaths made
and broken; by the skeleton silence and secrets of family; by
love's shifting chartreuse. They traffic in the quiet images of
personal history, each one a flickering sacrament in danger of
being swallowed up by the lust and desperation of their possessor:
a fistful of parking tickets shoved in the glove compartment, a
little black book hidden from a wife in a safe-deposit box, a
planter stuffed with flowers to keep out the cooing mourning doves.
They are stories fashioned with candor and animated by fits of
wordplay and invention -- stories that affirm Tillman's unshakable
talent for wedding the patterns and rituals of thought with the
blushing immediacy of existence, defying genre and defining
experimental short fiction.
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