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Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781907222269
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.
Up Your Ass
Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime
ISBN: 9783956796050
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 23, 2022
Valerie Solanas's legendary play explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them.
Radical Virtuosity
Ana Mendieta and the Black Atlantic
ISBN: 9780262042703
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2019
Reclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.
Elastic Architecture
Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
ISBN: 9780262035736
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 7, 2017
Twentieth-century architect Frederick Kiesler's innovative multidisciplinary practice responded to the ever-changing needs of the body in motion, anticipating the research-oriented practices of contemporary art and architecture.
Putting Rehearsals to the Test
Putting Rehearsals to the Test
Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics
ISBN: 9783956792113
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: September 2, 2016
Although the format of the rehearsal is used across a number of disciplines—film and theater as well as fine arts—it has been scarcely considered in historical and contemporary art discourses. With...
Alfred Jarry
A Pataphysical Life
ISBN: 9780262528436
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2015
This long-awaited biography of Alfred Jarry reconstructs a life both "ubuesque" and pataphysical.
Bad Reputation
Performances, Essays, Interviews
ISBN: 9781584350699
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: November 13, 2009
An autobiographical trilogy by a cultural icon of Downtown New York.

Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781907222269
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.
Up Your Ass
Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime
ISBN: 9783956796050
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 23, 2022
Valerie Solanas's legendary play explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them.
Radical Virtuosity
Ana Mendieta and the Black Atlantic
ISBN: 9780262042703
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2019
Reclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.
Elastic Architecture
Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
ISBN: 9780262035736
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 7, 2017
Twentieth-century architect Frederick Kiesler's innovative multidisciplinary practice responded to the ever-changing needs of the body in motion, anticipating the research-oriented practices of contemporary art and architecture.
Putting Rehearsals to the Test
Putting Rehearsals to the Test
Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics
ISBN: 9783956792113
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: September 2, 2016
Although the format of the rehearsal is used across a number of disciplines—film and theater as well as fine arts—it has been scarcely considered in historical and contemporary art discourses. With...
Alfred Jarry
A Pataphysical Life
ISBN: 9780262528436
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2015
This long-awaited biography of Alfred Jarry reconstructs a life both "ubuesque" and pataphysical.
Bad Reputation
Performances, Essays, Interviews
ISBN: 9781584350699
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: November 13, 2009
An autobiographical trilogy by a cultural icon of Downtown New York.