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Cabarets of Death

Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris

by Mel Gordon

Edited by Joanna Ebenstein

ISBN: 9781907222269

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: May 30, 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

by Valerie Solanas

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

by Genevieve Hyacinthe

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

by Stephen J. Phillips

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

Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics

Edited by Sabeth Buchmann, Ilse Lafer and Constanze Ruhm

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....